DAILY AFFRAYS.
DRAWN-OUT DISPUTE.
Nazis And Peasants On
Siegfried Line.
IMPROVING DEFENCES.
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, March 3,
The "Daily Telegraph" Cologne correspondent says that daily affrays mark a long-standing dispute between the Nazi authorities and the peasantry cultivating areas on the Siegfried Line and the Rhineland.
The introduction of 500,000 labourer* has not benefited the local population, because the labourers are restricted to their own barracks and canteens and do not spend money in the villages.
Profiteering by civil contractors, who sold to farmers at bargain prices quantities of concrete intended for the fortifications led the military authorities to take over the construction of the Siegfried Line, which is far from completion and cannot be compared with the Maginot Line in strength.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 9
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