GREAT INCREASES
ALLIES’ MILITARY STRENGTH. MEN TRAINING IN BRITAIN. HALF MILLION ADDED TO ARMY. (United Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 12. There have been tremendous increases in the strength of the Allied armies, according to two distinguished soldiers. Major-General Sir Charles Gwynn told the Associated Press that 500,000 well-trained men had been added to Britain’s fighting strength since the outbreak of the war. Two hundred thousand members of the Militia completed training before January and the second group is well advanced. An increasingly large number of training camps are operating. General Duval, in an article in the Paris “Journal” says he is convinced that Germany will not dispose of more divisions than the Allies next spring. The MagiAot Line will be prolonged westward to, the North Sea and eastward almost to the Jura mountains. A German manoeuvre through Belgium and Switzerland would really mean only a German frontal attack on a more extended front.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 79, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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