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TAKING NO CHANCES
PROTECTION OF KIEL CANAL,
LONDON, Nov. 23. The Germans have constructed fortifications at Me-uder (?), on Alsen Island.
Many Schleswig-Holstein towns are surrounded with trenches; and scores oi thousands of the old Landsturm are guarding the Danish frontier.
[Alsen Island is m the Little Belt, forming part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein. It has aji area of 124 square miles. It is obvious that the extra, fortifications is to protect the Baltic entrance to the Kiel Canal.]
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1915, Page 2
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80TAKING NO CHANCES Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1915, Page 2
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