The Archive · 1934

SAAR SALE AGREEMENT SIGNED Rome, Dee

An impofant agreement pertaining to a number of Saar questions was signed here to-day by France and Germany.

Under the agreement—Germany agrees to pay 900,000,000 francs for the Saar mines and varlovs credite they will take over if the plebiscite on January 13 goes in her favour, The payment" includes 11,000.00 tons of coal in the mines. The committee entrusted with the negotiation lof the agreement will submit a report to the League of Nations on Dovember 8.

The mines in the Saar yielded last year over ten million tons of coal, ore than a million tons of tron, and nearly a milieu and a half tons of sleol—Reuter,

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