GERMAN NERVOUSNESS
FEAR OF SECOND FRONT United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-bt) LONDON, June 17 German nervousness over the possibility of an Allied offensive in the west is betrayed by present feverish activities in France, details of which have reached Free French Headquarters in London. The Maginot Line is being reversed, and a large number of workers are engaged in turning the guns westward, while new fortifications are being built on the Rhine. The German High Command has ordered the establishment of special anti-ccmmando units, whose personnel are equipped for hand-to-hand fighting. They are stationed at various big ports, including St. Nazaire. At the same time, M. Laval’s policy of gradually imposing at least semimilitary collaboration with the Nazis on the French people has borne its first fruits. The Vichy Government has been authorised by the Armistice Commission to install anti-aircraft defences throughout the unoccupied :cne, also to put up a barrage balloon -•ound Vichy itself. The scheme’s jne drawback is that Vichy has no oalloons.
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Waikato Times, Volume 131, Issue 21758, 18 June 1942, Page 3
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