FRENCH STRONGHOLD— Guarding France's eastern frontier from Belgium to Switzerland is the famous Maginot Line, a maze of seemingly endless fortifications linked by amazing underground passages. From it issue the French soldiers who are attacking the German Westwall. Here are interesting views of France's extensive
fortress. Upper left, upended steel rails and barbed wire form above-ground entanglements. Lower left, Poilus rest in underground dormitories. Upper right, subterranean power plant that runs—lower right—trolley cars and furnishes light in the vast connecting tunnels that stretch for miles along the frontier.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 7
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