Maginot Line Round Britain
Italians Learning Truth About Invasion
FAIRY STORIES OF COLOSSAL GUNS
United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 6.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 31.
An article in the Gazette del Popolo reveals that the Italians are gradually being warned of the difficulties of invading Britain. An Italian correspondent declares that it is obvious from the German air force's photographs that the British have converted the Channel coast into a veritable fortress. Photographs reveal mass fortifications, some still being constnictea and some finished, but all are attempting to transform the fragile barrier of chalk cliffs into a formidable mass of cement and steel. The British are constructing a Maginot Line around the island, thereby making the same mistake as the French.
“The invasion certainly is not the surprise the Germans are preparing for the British, but of course we cannot reveal it. The biggest German guns have not yet been brought into action They are undoubtedly the biggest in existence. Big Bertha is a joke compared with them.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7
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