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The
Belfort Gap
Shortage Of Materials
MOORS PREPARING HOLD,UP SURPRISE FOR NAZIS
By DAVID SCOTT
News Chronicle War Correspondent witth the
French Forces
FRANCE.
IF Hitler and his generals should think of trying to turn the Maginot Line by an attack through Switzerland, severe shocks await them.
IN U-BOAT BUILDING
By A Naval Correspondent THE Nazi's U-boat plan is
getting out of gear.
Before the war began Hit- ler's naval experts assured him that there would always During the last few days I have seen the French de-
be enough U-beals to make it fences along the Rhine from Basle to a point half-way impossible for Billain to re- 'down to Strasbourg, opposite the crucial point of Basle itceive, suficient food self and along the Jura mountain range which, flanks the French-Swiss frontier between Basle and Geneva.
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The last section of this line is held
:
from
abroad. Two things have gone wrong with the plan.
(1) The German shipbuilding yards are short of klijed labour and material;
"I can certify that any attempt to push westward from Basi through what is commonly known as the Belfort Gap, or through the Rhone Valley past Geneva towards Lyons, will find the French!
(2) Britain and France are sink- defences as strong and the French Army as ready to meet it as in
Ing U-boats much faster than Ad- miraj Raeder believed possible. any other sector between the Alps and the English Channel.
The Stettin yard, engaged exclu- Along the line itself the Maginot system has long been prepared to and is being daily strengthened by sively on naval work, cannot find offensive. This Moorish troops sure sign that enough skilled men. To keep up its resist German part of the famous line is less cla- this is a vital sector. borate than the defences between the Rhine and the Moselle, chiefly be nothing cause the ground, lying at a lower level than the Rhine Itself, behind its is swampy and high embankments, deep digging is useless.
Strong Forts
I saw these Arab cavalrymen, with rate of production it has had to in-
to distinguish them from crease working hours.
The workers are grumbling-and French soldiers now except their dark faces and tight Khaki turbans the quality of the work is suffer-
a steel helmet,ing. often wom under digging at the hillside, shovelling Krupps and some of the Hamburg concrete into wooden moulds, wheel-yards are also affected. ing barrows full of earth and some- times
These simple British naval experts laugh at the accompanying
U-boat losses by the building of new activities with wild, Oriental sing-Nazi claim that she can balance ker
int Their commaster, a grey-halted boats.
French major, who had served long years in North Africa, told me that they were splendid troops.
Any elaborate tunnels here would be constantly flooded or wouki need an impossibly romplicated pumping system to keep them dry, but this flat ground can be as well defended by numerous powerful blockhouses, in itself, whose cach a small fort
As I watched the Moors at work machine-guns and anti-tank
the peace of this green countryside sweep the intervening spaces.
village on the Was suddenly broken by loud volleys In a unonymous
at meeting of machine-gun fire, but the Aras Rhine bank, formerly
notice, their cont place for French and Germons, Isoldiers took no found contact with the enemy oppo-manding ofteer jerked his head site more close and the atmosphere southwards willi u inugh.
guns
unbroken
of profound peace more
at any other point in than strange theatre of "war."
In 1917, when she had many more raw materials to draw on, Germany put only 87 submarines into commission.
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Shipbuilding experts here clare that the Nazis cannot pro- duce more than six U-linuts each month.
At least 40 U-tons are believed to That is the Swiss," he said, "hey have been sunk since the war be- Hitler's: this do a lot of practice. That and surgan.
So, Inonth by month, anti-aircraft guns on fine days, are about the only sounds of war you U-boat fleet is getting smaller and
smaller. hear in these parts."
As usual we drove up to within a few hundred yards of the front line hidden from the in motor-cars,
chemy by camouflage nettlag und Homeside Rationing Next Week
between the trees.
Wthin Yards Of Enemy
As usual, we walked without any attempt at concealment along a path
on the river between the thickets bank, through a wooden shed, whose Ger- far side stood open towards
to a spot on the many and finally towpath where only 150 yards of,
at a similar rushing muddy water towpath opposite separated us from the German Army.
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FOUR OUNCES OF
BACON A WEEK
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter).—The Ministry of Food announces that the ration for uncooked bacon and ham beginning on January 8 will be four ounces, and that for through queer cooked, three and a half loaded with poisonous orange berounces a week.
---A-few-hundred yards away, after
pushing feathery grasses and
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way
thorn bushes
ries, we found ourselves in a block- The maximum retail prices LATE NEWS
a
according to cuts.
house on the river's bank. This was range from 1s 2d to 2s 10
with henvy louble casemate,” machine guns in its loopholes and machine ribes ready to fire through the slits in its observation turret.
Anti-Tank Guns
The Food Ministry states that it is roposed experimentally to allow catering establishments to serve breon DL surrender ham without
and
How it
Inside the fort were white enamel-coupons, provided they are consumed
on the premises, led. walls neat ammunition rucks,
Is Calculated Aring charts, and apple-ple or-
Supplies of butter and sugar to the der everywhere. A communication
catering establishments will be cal- trench had been dug to the back.
Here and in a bigger blockhouse culated on the basis of one-sixth of as well as an ounce of butter and one-seventh (with pnti-tank guns machine-guns) further back from of an ounce of sugar per meul served, crew including afternoon tea, for which no the river, a highly-trained walled with tremendous confidence butter was allowed during the last to shaller an enemy attack or hold war,
if need be to the out in the fort, end.
The arrangements apply to all to the places of refreshment open Between the southern end of the public, including clubs and canteens. Vosges mountains
the and
Jura
range, which follow the Swiss fron- U-BOAT SINKS A
lier, is a wide space of open country known geographically as the Belfort Gap.
This opening in the natural ram- paris of France has always tempted invaders and has
SWEDISH SHIP
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter).A 6,000 ton Swedish steamer in the out an $.OS. Atlantic has sent often been suc-
stating that she is under Are from a German submarine and that she is now sinking.
cessfully held against them
Lion As Symbol.
In the war of 1870 the Prussians failed to take entered Paris, but Belfort, whose famous Lion, hown in of the citadel, red the
rock symbolises the valour of its fenders.
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To-day, the Belfort Gap is closed not only by Vauban's immense but obsolete fortifications, but by piles at barbed wire, scores of blockhouses on the Maginot model, and a great belt of steel defences built between that and the Rhine since this war began.
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French soldiers and engineers have mnde great use of the long respite given them by Nari hesitation. Through these weeks they have worked hard to make the plain of Alsace and the Belfort Gop impassa- ble.
Every day that passes makes thibir Buccess more certain now.
Coloured Troops Work
All along the eastward escarpment of the Vosges and right down to the outskirts of Basle fiself, where the in marked every 50 Swiss frontier yards by boards painted in the Swiss colours, a zone of sicel fortifications Reveral miles deep, including in numerable tank traps and newly and mado
blockhouses- concrete backed by the original Maginot 'system, bers the way to an'invader.
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