§ Mr. FISHERasked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that at the last meeting of the League of Nations Council the British representative urged that the numbers to be added to the Saar Valley gendarmerie in the present year should be more than the proposed addition of 200, any steps have been taken in this direction; and whether the French troops now in the Saar will be reduced in number in proportion as the gendarmerie is increased?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThough no official report has yet been received, it is understood that the Saar Governing Commission have decided to increase by 400 the numbers to be added this year to the Saar Gendarmerie, bringing the total up to 755. His Majesty's Government welcome any increase in the numbers of the gendarmerie and, in consequence, a corresponding prospect of reduction in the number of foreign troops at present stationed in the district.