TO INSPECT MAGINOT LINE.
CHIEF OF EEITISH GENEEAE STAFF RUGBY, March, 27. Viscount Gort, Chief of the General .Staff, is spending a few days in France at the invitation of General Gamclin. He will see exercises with troops and will visit the fortifications of the Maginot Line. The invitation was given personally by General Oamelin when Lori Gort passed through Paris last month on a return from Egypt. He is travelling by air to France to-morrow and will be accompanied by MajorGeneral IL E. Pownall, director of military operations and intelligence, a:>l other staff officers. SPYING NEAR MAGINOT LINE PARIS, March 28. Victor Steinmetz, 2C-year-oid Luxem burger, and Gustav Graf, a Swiss, wei sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment fo spying in the vicinity of the Maginot Line.
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Otaki Mail, 31 March 1939, Page 1
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