OLD MAGINOT LINE
NEW WORKS ON OLD SITE LONDON, March 5. When the Maginot Line was being dug an exactiy similar fortification, 2000 years oid, ’was found. The Gauls built it to keep out the Huns. Lord Llovd mentioned this at a meeting of the Anglo-French Ambulance Corps at the Mansion House, London, yesterday. He said he was told of tne discovery by the general who guided him round when he visited the Mag'inot Line a few years ago. “Walls,” Lord Llovd added, “have two effects. They may keep barbarians out for civilisation, but they also prevented civilisation from entering Germany!"
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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101OLD MAGINOT LINE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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