Evening star., 1935-01-17
Two Communists Reported
Killed by Nazis at
NeuenkirChen.
SCENES ALONG ROADS
REMINISCENT OF WAR
Anti. i.Hitlerites Seek Protection
of French Flag at Mines.
Many Flee Basin.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SARREGUEMINES, France, jan
uary 17.-Saar refugees, pouring into
France over the border. reported to-
day that two Communists had been
killed at Neuenkirchen and a dozen
other anti-Nazis had been beaten at
other towns in the Saar Basin terri
tory.
! The refugees told tales of horror in
| stoical voices as the first big rush
into France got under way.
The scenes along the road leading
from the Saar into Sarreguemines
were reminiscent of war times. Sixty
men. women and children. carrying
| large bundles, walked several miles
I from the frontier to the railroad sta
ton in this town, where the French
offered them protection.
Assert Lives Menaced.
Three hundred others had arrived
| by train and on foot by pm. today.
All of them, said French officials,
| asserted their lives had been threat
ened.
The story of the allegedly murdered
Communists was told by men arriving
from Neuenkirchen. They said the
Communists were killed in their own
homes early in the morning by Nazis''
| and said another mans house was
wrecked. He, they asserted. escaped
across the border to Forbach. France,
but his wife, who was refused admit
tance to her own home, was still in
| the Saar.
A refugee from Saarlouis said he
had seen man badly beaten and his
face cut and that salt was then
rubbed into the cut.
| The fleeing anti-Nazis all have taken
shelter in the customs shed at the
railroad station, where they were
served hot coffee and bread by Red
| Cross nurses
The women nursed their babies
while the men milled about the sheds
exchanging tales of their experiences.
Not tear was shed among the fugi-
tives. for all said they were so happy
to get under the jurisdiction of the
French tricolor."
The refugees come from all walks of
life, but most of them are poor.
Families Appeal for Aid.
! SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter
ritory, January II P.-One hundred
anti -Hitlerites from Sulzbach were
reported today to have sought refuge
under the French flag while asserting
their lives had been endangered by
alleged acts of Nazi terrorism.
Men. women and children who fled
from their homes were said to have
slept on straw in the workers dormi-
tory of French mine.
The fugitives said they had been
threatened by shots fired in the all
outside their dwellings, and that win
dows of their homes had been broken
The French mine officials said they
had received several appeals for pro-
lection from families which voted fol
maintenance of League of Nations
control over the territory.
Sulzbach police officials, however
most of whom are Nazis. denied that
any acts Of terrorism had occurred
Meanwhile French francs were fee
ing the Saar so fast financiers said
France would get in cash only about
half of what Germany agreed to pay
for the territory's huge coal mines.
The Franco-German agreement
reached in Rome provided that Ger.
many would make lump sum pay.
ment of 100000 francs (about
55,575 900, to be drawn from francs
circulating in the territory, when SHE
repurchased the mines.
(The arrangement calls for 900,-
100000 francs in all, 95 per cent ir
cash and the remainder in coal.)
Financiers, however, say only about
400, 900 900 francs are left in the ter.
ritory, after the overwhelming vote
Sunday for union with Nazi Ger.
many.
rHUrrrD Ur~1rrC MAN