1938-04-27 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938.

CZECHS BUILD 'IMPREGNABLE FRONT Hidden Forts Built With French Aid: 1,000-Mile Concrete Barrier

DIESEL TRAIN ON TEST

NEW

TAKEN from a locomotive approaching Boxmoor

Fear of Germany Inspires New

Maginot Defence Lines

+ZECHO-SLOVAKIA is rushing to complete a mighty system of for- tifications along its Austrian border, extending the chain which al- "ready makes it impregnable along the German and Polish frontiers.

The Czecho-Slovakian General Staff has ordered more than 100,000 labourers to the 200-mile Austrian border to complete the huge task by Juno.

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Prague. URROUNDED on four sides by hostile

Sneighbours, Czecho-Slovakia has but one

friendly opening, scarcely 150 miles wide,

The two-masted schooner Chiva in its 2,200-mile frontier. which left Gloucester, Massachussets,

a

..

This is the section bordering upon its ally, Rumania, Natural which leads to one of its military guarantors, Russia.

for

New scientific expedition to Guinea in the interest of the American Academy of Sciences arrived in Manila recently for an indefinite play. The schooner,

In this narrow strip some 30,000 workers are which may be sold in the Philippines. feverishly working on the completion of the Northern

or Hongkong, was manned by Cap- tain George Adams,

C. W. Smith,

Jack Morton and a Malay boy whom Transylvania and Bukovina railroad, planned as the

world's most modern strategie railroad.

they picked up in New Guinea,

It is estimated that 50,000 troops may be transported over this line dally from Russia to Czecho-Slovakia.

Along the 1,000-mile German frontier and the 875- passengers, mile Polish frontier Czecho-Slovakia has built a system of

The Chiva came from Zamboanga, Zastañol | With them was Donald Kneedler, at nearly

of the Kneedler family in Manila, whom they met in Zamboanga.. a mile a minute, this picture provides a head-on view of the

The Chiva left Gloucester Novem- new L.M.S. streamlined Diesel train on its demonstration run

ber, 1930, with seven recently. Painted aluminium and post office red, this three-car

They were Mr. and Mrs. Frederick unit embodies a number of features new to British practice. It will undergo trials between Oxford and Cambridge.

"Blow The Money," Is Sob Of Boy Worth £20,000

New York.

In a poor New Orleans boarding house a London-born boy of thirteen, who has just been left £20,000 on condition that he is brought up in London, sobbed to-day again and again: "Why do. I have to go to London? I like it here. I don't want to go, Blow the money."

The boy is blond, tousle-haired, So with his son Herbert he sailed to Herbert Massey Lewis. The America. legacy was left by his father, a former London architect, who was thought to have been poverty-stricken

Herbert's father, Edwin Lewis, died, a fortnight ago in the boarding house where he had lived with his

son.

A few days before he died, be asked for a lawyer,

Mr. Norman Tilden.

To Mr. Tilden he told his story. He was once a well-known architect in London and owned much property: fle was married, had three sons and n daughter,

sald,

Something happened, he which made him unhappy in London.

Edwin Lewis wanted every one to think he was poor. He bought the boarding-house in which he lived and employed a landlady to run it. He paid her rent in order to keep up the make-believe.

Said he to Mr. Tilden: "Now I want to make my will." He revealed that he had thousands of pounds banked in New Orleans, New York, and Reno for the thirteen-year-old son who had cooked and cleaned up for him in his one-room home.

Altogether Lewis left £30,000. FATHER WENT TO U.S.A. TO FORGET SORROW

Herbert's guardien will be Mr Robert Braddock Worley, Bishops-

E. Crockett, anthropologists; Dillon, forts considered impregnable by impartial foreign

Ropley, scientist, Mrs. Morlan Lowndes, a writer, Capt. Adams and Mr. Smith.

From Gloucester the travellers

went along the Atlantic coast of the

United States and later on headed for Jaranica, Kingstown. Old Providence and St. Andrews. From the latter place they safled through the Panama Canal to Galapagos Then they proceeded to Island, Pago-Pogo Island, Suva, the Solomons and on to New Guinea, where Mr. and Mrs. Crockett, Mr. Ropley and Mrs. Lowndes disembarked to pur- suc their studies.

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At New Guinea the scientists caught large number of bird specimens and made anthropological measurements of primiüvo naüves there, according to Mr. Smith.

The visitors stated their trip had becn uneventful excepting for an

appendicitis attack suffered by both.

Mr. Smith and Mr. Crockett.

gate solicitor, who lives at Bromley (Kent).

Mr. Worley said recently: "Mr. Lewis and Herbert went to America eighteen months ago. Mr. Lewis had lost his wife and a son within a short time. He crossed the

Atlantle

10 forget his troubles...

"In December he heard that an- other son had died. I believe that news must have killed him."

observers.

In building them Czecho-Slovakia had the full support of all the French defence departments.

EXPERIENCE GAINED IN BUILDING FRANCE'S FAMOUS MAGINOT LINE WAS PLACED AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE CZECH GENERAL STAFF.

NEW FRONTIER BARRIER OF ELECTRIFIED BARBED WIRE

From Zinnwald an unbroken chain of fortifications stretches north and south, underground and above.

A five-fold line of barbed wire is stretched along the entire length of the frontler and connected with power stations to load the wire with high-tension electricity in case of invasion.

All roads leading from Germany and Poland into Czecho-Slovakia are studded with massive cement blocks about 12 feet high and equally wide.

The space left by the blocks is so electricity, closes the gates, and opens narrow that only ordinary inotor-cars the tank traps. can get through. No trucks or tanks can puss the frontier on these roads.

At the border there are huge steel gates which can spring up out of the ground to be closed in the face of an invading army.

MINES HIDDEN IN DITCHES

Camouflaged tank traps are bullt at Intervals of 200 yards- deep dilches with mines, planted at the bottom.

The complete surface fortifications from are controlled

underground system. Pushing a single button loads the burbed wire with high-tension'

Heavy artilery and anti-aircraft guns on the surface are also operated from below ground by range-finding periscopes and wireless firing ap-

paratus.

Beneath these protective fortifica- tions, designed to hold up an invading force, runs Czecho-Slovakia's own Maginot Line-an unbroken chain of more than 1,000 small forts built of steel and cement,

The underground foris

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