GERMAN DEFENCES
I EAST PRUSSIAN FRONTIER YUGOSLAV OIL CONCESSIONS (Received June 25, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Juno 2-1 The newspapers publish the first official sketch of Germany's frontier defences around Fast Prussia under the heading: "Fortress Against Poland's Appetite for Conquest." The sketch shows an uninterrupted line of heavy fortifications from Memcl to Marienburg, with a second line in the so-called Heilsberg triangle. The German news agency reports that as the result of lengthy negotiations, Germany has been granted the right to exploit large oil concessions in Yugoslavia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23382, 26 June 1939, Page 11
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