FRENCH DEFENCES.
£25,000,000 to be Spent Upon Fortifications. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 11. 12.40 p.m.) PARIS, June 10. The Finance Commisrion of the Chamber of Deputies passed a Bill involving £25.000.000 for national defence, of which £10,000,000 is for the completion of frontier defences planned in 1928 and known as the Maginot Line. defences have already cost £27,536,000. The defences consist of three lines of bemb-proof establishments, connected by hidden and strategic tunnels and protected by long-range guns. It would be necessary for ten big shells to fall on the same spot to demolish even the small turrets containing machine-guns.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20328, 11 June 1934, Page 1
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