BRITAIN’S MAGINOT LINE.
DEFENCES FROM AIR ATTACK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 10. General Sir Walter Kirke (DirectorGeneral of the Territorial Army), in. a speech, said Britain’s Maginot Line was not an affair of dug-outs, wire and concrete. It was formed by the fighting aircraft, searchlights, guns and balloons of the coast and air defences of Britain, manned mostly by volunteers, the Territorial Army and the auxiliary air force.
General Sir Walter Kirke believed that if a trial should come British people would face it with the cheerful and uncomplaining bulldog courage they had displayed in the past.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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98BRITAIN’S MAGINOT LINE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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