GIGANTIC FORTRESS BUILT
WALL ON BORDER OF FRANCE. LONG, UNBROKEN CHAIN. Paris, August-28. The impregnable wall of concrete and steel on the Franco-German border will have a strong north-western branch all along the Franco-Belgian border, as the result of orders issued to-day by the War Minister, Marshal Petain. The region between Margut and Arrancy, which it was originally intended should be defended by mobile artillery centres, will now be given over to subterranean fortification; thus forming a complete chain from the English Channel to Switzerland,
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 12
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