FEAR OF WAR
FRANCE BUILDING LINE OF FORTS. LONDON, Sept. ISNever since the building of the Great Wall of China has so ambitious and thorough a system of t on location been erected a.s that on Co cas orn frontier of France. Jo. '-in, n.ics from Luxembourg to Base ihcic now stretches an unbroken line of armoured concrete redoubts, each on« gas-proof and shoil-jroiA. eonnuuiij. cations are assured by deep buried telephones, by strategic roads and a net-work of railways; and each fort is under a mile from its nearest neighbour. But this is only the first line of defence. Behind stands a double string of impregnable strongholds—Strasbourg, A let'/,, Tliionville, Belfort, Epinnl, Tool and Verdun. To the defence of these can ho called a standiuo’ army ot over 303,000 men. while just across the Mediterranean Sea France can draw upon her va s t coloured forces. Iler military reserves are reckoned at a tolal of 5,000.000. With the finest air force aim the second largest navy in Europe. Franco still pleads in the concert, ft powers for more and yet more security.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12089, 31 October 1933, Page 3
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