At least 2,000 additional police are needed in the Saar Basin, the League of Nations commission governing the area informed the League today, if the plebiscite to be held there in January is to be carried out peacefully. The inhabitants of the Saar are to choose whether they are to return to Germany, become a part of France, or continue under the rule of the League of Nations.
Conditions in the Saar have become so bad in the last few months that it was utterly out of control, the commission said, asking for the recruiting of the additional 2,000 men in foreign countries, recommending countries which are members of the League and in which German is spoken.
According to the commission the Saar gendarmerie is utterly useless and is maintaining relations with the Nazi secret police, and that its impartiality is being rap-
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