NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE arrival of British troops in
the Saar could have had no more unfortunate prelude than the street fracas in which a British member of the Saar Volunteer Police Force, a Captain Justice, was involved on Saturday night. Since the whole affair is sub judice no more need be said about it here than that prompt and vigorous steps were' taken in the matter by the Governing Com- mission, and that Major Hemsley, the commandant of the Volunteer Police Force, though in no way implicated personally, felt it incumbent on him to resign his post. The disturbance had, of course, not the remotest con- nexion with the British regular forces under orders for the Saar, practically none of whom had arrived at the time of the incident, and that is now generally realized—though Mr. Lansbury did not help matters by urging quite irrationally in the House of Commons that the Volunteer Police Force and the International Plebiscite Force should be put under the same command. Both the German and the Saar Press have shown reasonable restraint in their references to the affair, and the British private soldier can be relied on to establish an atmosphere of good temper in his own characteristic way. The injuncticns Brigadier Priestman has issued to_ troops " sent out on a rather peculiar job " are of good omen, and so is his mention of the fact that they are taking plenty of footballs with them. * *
