NEW FRENCH DEFENCE
Great Artificial Lake C>N NORTHERN FRONTIER. (Received January 18, 9.50 p.m.). LONDON, January 18. The French hive completed flood defences on the northern frontier, as the result of which a great artificial lake can be cheated, thus making i virtually impossible for mechanised or other trocps to make a passage over the frori-ier. . There has peen machinery installed enabling the French to inundate the road lowlatds, between France and Belgium, tjtis creating a third water barrier agtinst Germany, togjglher with Holhnd’s dykes and Belgium 3 Albert cjhah
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Grey River Argus, 19 January 1940, Page 7
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