§ Dr. SHIELSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, at the recent meeting of the League of Nations Council any date was fixed within which the French troops were to be withdrawn from the Saar territory?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINThe answer is in the negative; but the French Government have undertaken to withdraw one battalion by the 31st May, and then to proceed step by step with the withdrawal of the remainder of the troops stationed in the territory.