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THE SIEGFRIED LINE 1 ROUBLE WITH PEASANTRY PROFITEERING CONTRACTORS (Bv ’telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 3. The Cologne correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that daily affrays mark a long-standing dispute between the Nazi authoriites and the peasantry cultivating the areas on the Siegfried Line in the Rhineland. The introduction of half a million labourers has not benefited the local people, because the labourers are restricted to their own barracks and canteens, and do not spend their money in the villages. Profiteering by civil contractors, who sold to farmers at bargain prices quantities of concrete intended for the fortifications, led the military authorities to take over the construction of the Siegfried Line, which is far from completion and not to be compared with the Maginot Line in strength.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 7
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