The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-01

| Eaficy'S SCuSp, ucHIuhsU1HB Senhte uary 13, Saar1anders decisively showed they wanted to come home instead of becoming French or re- maining under the administration of league governing board.
 | France was paid 900,O00,000 francs ($59,750,000) for the mines I under an agreement reached after | the plebiscite, and other formali- l ties of overturn were completed.
 French Flag Hauled Down To-day the French flag was hauled down from administration buildings in the mine area and the German flag run up.
 At 1 a. m. to-day, while cele- brants in Saarbruecken cafes and the other ancient towns of the ter ritory were getting their second l wind, more than 1000 policemen marched across the frontier to be sent to posts all over the Saar.
 At dawn the official celebration began when members of the Ger man front, who led the campaign for the Reich in the plebiscite per- iod, placed wreaths on all monu- ments to war deads At 8 a. m. there were religious services in all churches, Protestant and Catholic. At 9:30 representatives of all Nazi groups took up their positions on the frontier, to march across 46 minutes ltaer when, with the hoist ing of the German colors over Saarbruecken town hall; the from tier ceased to be.
 There rose a shout of "Heil Hit | ler!" and the bands began playing as the Nazis got the order to march.
 The solemn transfer of the mines was fixed for II a. m.
 Ceremony of Transfer
 A sparse crowd of 700 persons l was in front of the little one- storied rather fancy castle which | until yesterday Sir Godfrey Knox occupied as the leagues governing commissioner when at 9:2O a. m. Minister of Interior Prick and Buerckel, in Nazi uniform strode i up the Title gravel path from their cars, followed by nentouragc of police and scattering of local, of- ficials.
 There was thin cheer from the crowd. At 9:30 Baron Oloisi and his two fellow committeeman arrived. They were in formal morning dress with silk hats. In the great hall of the castle, in the presence of about 40 people, the ceremony of the over-turn oc- cured. Aloisi addressed Prick in con- versational tone, in French ceding authority from the league. An in terpreter put his speech into Ger i, briefly.
 At 10:15 exactly Prick stepped to a microphone and announced that the Saar had been handed back to Germany.
 What the Saar for IS years has yearned for, and on January 13 voted for. Is accomplished" Prick said. "ro-day it is returned to the Fatherland.
 To-day the symbol of the Ger man Reich flies over the Saar.
 We shall never again tolerate that German land shall be taken from us."
 Command to Hoist Flags
 He parked out then, at 10:1S:
 Hoist flags"
 Throughout the Saar and throughout the Reich, men and WOihCh WIio Ildu Dccu dWdlLlnR I0c signal pulled lanyards which sent the Nazi swastika and the black white-red flag of the Reich to the top of the f1agpoles.
 Church bells began their peal of joy. Sirens and whistles on factor les and ships throughout the Reich began a mad shrieking. Work was halted in factories and public buildings so that workers could hear Prick.
 At the end of the castle cere- mony, Prick cried for his listeners to join him in a tribute:
 TO our eternal Germany and to our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler."
 Crowds gathered about loud speakers gave three "Heils" chant ed German is the Saar", and sang the Horst Vessel song-the Nazi anthem-and Deutschland Ueber Alles."
 100000 Burst Into Cheers
 Down the street a few blocks from the castle 100, 900 people-the total population of Saarbruecken is 12O,O0O but 1t was perhaps trebled to-day--watched while the flag of the Reich went slowly up on the old league commission building where the league Saar flag flew yesterday. They burst into their cheer as the flag rose to the top of the pole.
 All round the Saar border, like spokes on a wheel, Nazi columns stepped across the border behind their bands.
 The official celebration was to reach it's height at 6 p. m. with a mass meeting in front of the ad- ministration building and speeches by Rudolph Hess. Adolf Hitler's reputy. Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister or propaganda, and Buer- ckel.
 Emancipation day. to-day, was marked by personal amnesty by Hitler for all first offenders in tho Saar serving up to one years im- prisonment, and blanket amnesty for all serving up to three months or awaiting trial for offenses which