FRANCE AND FRONTIER
TAKING NO RISKS United Service. LONDON, 10th September. The "Daily News" Paris correspondent statos that tho Minister for War, M. Painleve, is going to Metz for a four days' conference- in connection, with the reorganisation of France's eastern frontier. There is an initial credit of £1,750,000 in tho figures of the 1928 French Budget for new fortifications, which are described v a succession of organised defence regions from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, additional to the usual defence works, such as forts, redoubts, batteries, and equipment. Each fortified zone will inclutlo important road work, railway tracks, earth and concrete embankments, and underground passages.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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107FRANCE AND FRONTIER Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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