VITAL SECTION
SIEGFRIED RAILWAY
SHATTERED BY ALLIES
"RHINE GIBRALTAR"
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)'
(Received May 14, 1.15 p.m.)
BASLE, May 13.
French artillery and Allied bombs shattered part of the Istein tunnel, which is south from Schliengen and under Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine," resulting in the closure of a vital section of the Siegfried Line railway.
Schliengen is on the German bank of the Rhine, due east of Mulhausen and ten miles north of Basle.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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75VITAL SECTION Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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