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EXTENSION BY FRANCE Securing Belgian Frontier GERMAN AERIAL EXPANSION BRITAIN FORCED TO FOLLOW JBz Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! Received Oct. 18, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 17. Repercussions of the Belgian neutrality ntova are widely discussed. It is reported that France has decided to extend the Maginot line along the Belgian frontier to the North Sea. The Observer says that it is believed that Germany is accelerating her aerial expansion with a first-line strength of 2200 ’planes, aiming at parity with Russia and necessitating Britain considerably increasing her programme in order to fulfil parity With her strongest neighbour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 247, 19 October 1936, Page 7
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