EUROPE'S FEARS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20672, 10 March 1937, Page 9

EUROPE'S FEARS

PROBLEM OF FRONTIER SECURITY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 9, 10.50 p.m.) BERNE, March 9. The Swiss Government is reported to be seeking written confirmation of Herr Hitler’s recent declaration that Germany will always respect Swiss neutrality.

FRANCE POSTPONES WORK SITUATION ON BELGIAN FRONTIER United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 9, 10.50 pan.) LONDON, March 9. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” reports thtt the fortification of the Franco-Belgian frontier, which was to have been begun in the near future, has been postponed for a year in consequence of the Government’s decision to reduce extraordinary expenditure in the current year. GERMAN MAJOR'S ADMISSION STRENGTH OF FRONTIER FORTRESSES United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received March 10, 1.40 a.m.) BERLIN, March 9. The first admission of the fortificattion of the Rhineland was made by Major Jost, of the War Ministry, in an article commemorative of the first anniversary of the reoccupation of that ?-pn„ Major Jost said that without slavisn imitation of the French Maginot Line, needing many years and countless millions to create, the German frontier territory now enjoys to-day the protection of fortresses.