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The Belfort Gap
MOORS PREPARING 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.
Shortage Of Materials
HOLD,UP 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 experis assured
him that there would always be enough U-boats to make it Impossible for Britain to re-
During the last few days I have seen the French de- fences along the Rhine from Basle to a point half-way down to Strasbourg, opposite the crucial point of Basle it-ceive sufficient food from self and along the Jura mountain range which flanks the French-Swiss frontier between Basle and Geneva.
abroad.
Two things have gone wrong with the plan.
(1) The
German shipbuilding yards are short of skilled labour and material;
I can certify that any attempt to push westward from Baslo through what is commonly known as the Belfort Gap, or through the Rhone Valley past Geneva towards Lyons, will find the French defences as strong and the French Army as ready to meet it as inf (2) Britain and France are sink- any other sector between the Alps and the English Channel,
Ing U-boats much faster than Ad- miral Raeder believed possible. Along the Rhine Itself the Moginot, The last section of this line is held] system has long been prepared to and is being daily strengthened by The Stettin yard, engaged exclu resist
German offensive. This Moorish troops a sure sign that ively on naval work, cannot find part of the famous line is less elo- this is a vital sector.
chough skilled men. To keep up Ita borate than the defences between the I saw these Arab cavalryme, with rate of production it has had to in- Rhine and the Mosello, chiefly be-nothing to distinguish them from crease working hours. cause the ground, lying at a lower French soldiers now except thair The workers are grumbling-and level than the Rhine itself behind its dark faces and tight khaki turbans the quality of their work is suffer- high embankinents, is swampy and often worn under a steel helinet, Ing. deep digging is useless.
(digging at the hillside, shovelling
Strong Forts
LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY by numerous powerful Blockhouses. years in North Africa, told me that
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a small fort
In 1917, when she had many more raw materials to draw on, Germany put only submarines into commission.
concrete into wooden moulds, wheel Krupps and some of the Hamburg ing barrows full of earth and some-yards are also affected. Any elaborate tunnels here would times accompanying these simple Dritish naval experts Inugh at the be constantly flooded or would need activities with wild, Oriental sing-Nazi claim that she can balance her an impossibly complicated pumping
U-boat losses by the bullding of new Their commander, a grey-haired bonts. system to keep them dry, but this flat ground can be as well defended French major, who and served long each
in itself, whose they were splendid troops.
As I watched the Moors at work! machine-guns and
and anti-tank guns sweep the intervening spaces. the peace of this green countryside village on the was suddenly broken by loud volleys! Rhine bank, formerly a meeting of machine-gun fire, but the Arab| place for French and Germans, soldiers took no notice, their com- his head found contact with the enemy oppo-manding officer Jerked site more, close and the atmosphere southwards with laugh, of profound peace more unbroken "That is the Swiss," he said, "they have been sunk since the war be- than ut any other point in this do a lot of practice. That and our gan.
anti-aircraft guns on fine days, are
by 50, month
month, Hiller's about the only sounds of war you U-bont fleet is getting smaller and hear in these parts."
smaller.
In an anonymous
strange theatre of "war."
As usual we drove up to within a few hundred yards of the front line motor-cars, hidden from the
in
de-
Shipbuilding experts here clare that the Nazis cannot pro- duce niore than six U-boats each month.
At least 40 U-boats are believed to
chemy by camouflage netting hung Homeside Rationing Next Week
between the trees.
Wthin Yards Of Enomy
As usual, we walked without any attempt at concealment along a path between the thickets on the river bank, through a wooden shed, whose far side atond open towards Ger- Louny and finally to a spot
the
towpath where only 150 yards pt, rushing muddy water at a similar towpath opposite separated us from
ormy.
the German
FOUR
OUNCES OF
BACON A WEEK
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter),--The Ministry of Food announces that the ration for uncooked bacon and ham
A few hundred yards away, after beginning on January 8 will be four ounces, and that for pushing 21 way through queer cooked, three_and_a_halfj. feathery grasses and thorn bushes
loaded with poisonous orange ber-Ounces a week.
ries, we found ourselves in a block- The maximum retail prices LATE NEWS
n
according to cuts,
house on the river's bank. This was range from 1s 2d to 2s id)
"double casemate," with heavy machine guns in its loopholes and machine rifles ready to fire through the slits in its observation turret.
Anti-Tank Guns
The Food Ministry states that it is to allow proposed experimentally entering establishments to serve bacon and ham without surrender of
Inside the fort were white enamel-coupons, provided they are consumed led walls neat ammunition racks, firing charts, and apple-ple or-
der everywhere. A communication
Jon the pre It be
How Is Calculated
Supplies of butler and sugar to the trench had been dug to the back. catering establishments will be cal- Here and in a bigger blackhouse culated on the basis of one-sixth of (with anti-tank guns as well as an ounce of butter and one-seventh machine-guns) farther back from of an oupce of sugar per meal served, the river, a highly-trained crew including afternoon luu, for which no walted with tremendous confidence butter was allowed during the last to shutter an enemy attack or hold war.
out in the fort, if need be to the places of refreshment open to the The arrangements apply to all end.
publie, Including clubs and canteens.
Between the southern end of the Vosges mountains and the Jura!
range, which follow the Swiss fron- U-BOAT SINKS A
tier, is a wide space of open country
known geographically as the Belfort
Gap.
This opening in the natural ram-
SWEDISH SHIP
LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter)-A
parts of France has always tempted 3,000 ton Swedish steamer in the invaders and has often been-sur-Atlantier has sent out an cessfully held against them.
Lion As Symbol
In the war of 1870 the Prussians entered Paris, but failed to take t Belfort, whose famous Lion, hewn in the
red
tock of the clladel, symbolises the valour of its de- fenders.
Today, the Belfort Gap is closed not only by Vauban's immense but obsoleto fortifications, but by piles of 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.
French soldiers, and engineers have inade great use of the long respite given them by Nuzihesitation. Throug these weeks, they have worked hard to make the plain of Alsace and the Belfort Gap Impass-
bla...
Every day that passes makes their success more certain now,
Coloured Troops Work
All along the eastward escarpment of the Vosges and right down to the outskirts of Basic ftaolf, where the Swis-frontier is marked every 50 yards by boards painted in the Swiss
rit zone of steel fortifications miler deep, including in- numerable tank traps and nowly made concreto. blockhouses And backed by the original Maginot systera, bars the way to an invader.
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