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I WISH I COULD GET ME DAUGHTER TO POSTPONE THE TRIP FOR A WHILE. AS THERE ARE THREE CHOWDER PARTIES AND FOUR CLAM BAKES TO TO ATTEND IN THE
NEAR FUTURE –
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1939.
SIEGFRIED LINE
A FORMIDABLE OBSTACLE
The slow and methodical advance of the French armies into Germany, when compared with the rapid and crush- ing advance of the German armies in Poland, seems to have caused a certain amount of disappointment among, the non-military-minded public.
In actual fact, the two operations have nothing in com- mon. The German invasion of Poland was made through wide open country, without any permanent lines of de- fence, and was made from several directions simultaneous- ly.
In order to get into Germany, the Allies have either to force a crossing of the Rhine in face of permanent defence works or to break through the system of fortifications, call- ed "The Siegfried Line,” on the sector which runs for a hun- dred miles through mountainous country between the Rhine and the Moselle.
to four
forts,
of
con- biet" consists of from two The Siegfried Line has been
years lines of trenches and small structed during the last four and is said to be nothing like so varying according to the nature strong as the Maginot Line which pro- the locality." tects the eastern frontiers of France-Tese-works in the "Sperrgebiet" on any uniform and which took fifteen years to build. are not constructed
On the Belgian frontier they The section of the former line, be- plan. tween Rhine and Moselle (where the consist of barbed wire entanglements
attacking) was Allies are now
the protected by a line of forts of various entangle- The barbed wire last to be built, parts of it having types.
a vast only been put in hand since Mayments in that region are on
this
anything Siegfried scale, much greater than Nevertheless 1938.
ob that existed in the later years of the Line remains a very formidable
last war.
In a depth of from '15 to stacle.
of 20 miles run three or four lines "A FORMIDABLE LINE
barbed wire entanglements. amid A French writer, Jean, Bardanne,, who visited the German frontier dis- which, as a further protection, have The anti-tank traps: been placed tricts in the late summer of 1938, in
are in some his book "L'Allemagne et la Guerre" actual entanglements
of this parts hundreds, or even thousands of, gives an interesting picture imposing system of fortifications, bas- yards wide. They are, as I have said, ed on personal observation and con-protected by small forts, and these, versations with the local inhabitants.. again are armed with 12 to
says,
G
Ger-
15 ma- anti-tank "the chine-guns each, and "Already in 1923" he Staff, German General
under the guns; other, more powerful forts con- direction, of General von Seeckt, the tain guns of every calibre. A notable feature in this system of forts is the founder of the Reichswehr, had drawn
On a turn- up a defence scheme for Germany's use of turrets moving western frontiers. It was to consist of: table, thus providing the forts with an
all-round fleld of fire. the construction of numerous forts,
"But, it may be objected, if Ger- the establishment of supply centrés
lines and munition dumps, construction of many has protected her frontier, op- underground aerodromes, special mili-posite Belgium with all these tary motor-roads and railway lines. of barbed wire, it will be... impossible The whole system was to be called the for her armies to take the offensive. The reply to that is, that this line of "Hindenburg Line." After Hitler
barbed wire runs only from. Heins- came to power... and after the re- occupation of the Rhineland, this work berg to Ehrang (i.e. opposite the ac- was actually started. The "Hindenburg tual Belgian frontier), so that Line" which up to then had existed many is still in a position to carry out an offensive through Holland or Lux- merely on paper became an
emburg. plished fact-of iron and concrete---
VAST NAVAL GUNS under the name of the "Siegfried
"Opposite the French border Line," These works ran from the frontiers of Holland to Switzerland system is altogether different. and included:,over fifty large forts, there is scarcely any barbed wire but, and hundreds of smaller ones, aero-instead, three or four lines of power-. dromes and electric power-plants, ful bastions have been built every 500 concrete platform for heavy aftil-yards or so. And behind these works lery, and nearly five hundred miles are fortified power-stations fitted with In of underground galleries and shelters. high-power electric transformers.
SYSTEM OF FORTIFICATIONS this sector, too, are vast gun emplace- But after May 21, 1938.-a freshments for heavy naval guns with a plan was quickly improvised, to range of from 50 to 80 miles. I have strengthen further the⚫ "Siegfried it on the most reliable authority that Line" by the formation of a so-called over one hundred guns of this type arsenals "Sperrgebiet" (region of obstacles), to have been manufactured in be placed between Germany and her in the neighbourhood of Bremen, to-
(Continued on Page 11) western neighbours.,. This "Sperrge-
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