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German Forts -Says Berlin MIRACLES OF

SIEGFRIED LINE

Berlin, October 25.

Germany's new line of fortifications in the West throws everything of a similar character employed during the Great War into the shade.

It is constructed to resist the most powerful tank attacks, and at the same time incorporates every comfort for the defending troops.

These are the views of a special, ments are all placed in tactical re- correspondent of the Berlin news-lationship to one another. paper "Angriff,” founded by Dr. Great stress has been laid on suc- Goebbels, Reich Minister of Pro- cessful camouflage to offer the paganda. The correspondent has enemy the smallest possible visible just completed a tour of the new target. Grass and bushes have Siegfried line and describes it as been planted on some of the sunken “impregnable.”

The whole area, he states, is píl- ed high with building materials for the use of the thousands of men drawn, from every quarter of the Reich who are working on the con- struction.

SUNKEN FORTS

forts so that they are indistinguish- able from the surrounding lands cape.

“HOTEL' COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS

The anti-tank arrangements, it is claimed, are totally impassable. Bow upon row of egg-shaped con- crete impediments run along the This "most gigantic system of line of fortifications. No tank, it is fortifications which ever a land believed, can surmount these ob- possessed to protect it from a tank stacles while under fire from the attack-consists," the correspondent forts.

writes, "of a secondary line of ferro-

concrete forts, largely sunk in the The machine-gun nests contain ground and practically invisible, to complete sanitary arrangements, the naked eye, behind an advanced cooking stoves and running water. fighting line in which the defen-The arrangements for the soldiers sive works are placed much closer manning the line are described as together.

"similar to an hotel,"

Here, continues the article, The thoroughness of the system everything is arranged according to is very necessary, concludes the a vast all-embracing plan in which writer, in view of the fact that each section of the system is a cog artillery observers in the French in the main machine. Machine-gun | Maginot Line command an uninter- nests, anti-tank weapons and rupted view far into German. ter. scientifically-constructed entangle-ritory.

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LONDON BALLOON BARRAGE T

· Grave doubts are expressed in The balloons were bigger, and I Service and aeronautical quarters, understand that the cable used is not, as. to the importance in the

scheme of air defence of a balloon not so strong as that of 20 years barrage, but on account of obvious cable is run are eppon which the

apparently superior to those of the war period.

It is pertinent to inquire whether

technical shortcomings revealed in the demonstration over London.....

Reports that balloons could at- tain heights exceeding 10,000 feet experts engaged during the war in are, it appears, without foundation, this department have been available, If the display, held in favourable or whether they have been over- weather, is any indication, the only ruled by those who are not familiar raids that the barrage might ham-with the technical problems. » per would be those made at low pl- titudes.

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Vast sums of money have already been committed to the equipment, There is a reasonable fear that much of it has been spent unwisely. the secretiv What is needed is a moored bal- all to hims

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The breaking away of some of the balloons is not reassuring. During the Great War it was a comparative ly rare occurrence; and it is strong-loon which will ascend to consider forms the ably more than 10,000 feet, so that new book, ly suggested that much the technique evolved then has been at night raiders, unaware of the lish unders

focality of the barrage, and of Its Painter: height, would be compelled to exer- Turner, ©the war observation balloons | eise extreme caution, and thus make 'mate childr

of the defending topt to and

balloons were sent up easier tha ights than were attain- fighter"

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