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FRANCE’S EASTERN FRONTIER. FORTIFICATIONS This map illustrates the “Maginot line,” where France is carrying out her “watch on the Rhine.” The helmet-like designs with pointing guns indicate large and small armoured forts. The heavy lines mark armoured chambers. A recent cablegram stated that France had decided to assemble a similar number of troops on the French side of the frontier to that assembled by Germany in the Rhineland.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22834, 19 March 1936, Page 13

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FRANCE’S EASTERN FRONTIER. FORTIFICATIONS This map illustrates the “Maginot line,” where France is carrying out her “watch on the Rhine.” The helmet-like designs with pointing guns indicate large and small armoured forts. The heavy lines mark armoured chambers. A recent cablegram stated that France had decided to assemble a similar number of troops on the French side of the frontier to that assembled by Germany in the Rhineland. Otago Daily Times, Issue 22834, 19 March 1936, Page 13

FRANCE’S EASTERN FRONTIER. FORTIFICATIONS This map illustrates the “Maginot line,” where France is carrying out her “watch on the Rhine.” The helmet-like designs with pointing guns indicate large and small armoured forts. The heavy lines mark armoured chambers. A recent cablegram stated that France had decided to assemble a similar number of troops on the French side of the frontier to that assembled by Germany in the Rhineland. Otago Daily Times, Issue 22834, 19 March 1936, Page 13