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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMDER 4 1989.

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Defence

BEHIND the display of might on land and sea and in the

London Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By-Antal Dorati: The Dancing Years-(Ivor Novello's Latest Drury Lane Success) air which we are now witnessing With:-Mary Ellis-Ivor Novello-Olive Gilbert and Roma Beaumont lies a story of national resource Rondo from "Haffner" Serenade (Mozart)

Fritz Kreisler of which the country may be Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Major (Chopin)

proud, but which the English- man treats almost as if it were

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moving into their war stations, and from Land's End to John o' Gronts the country is being "covered" by a defensive force ready for netion at any moment. Units are serving for a month at a time and will relieve ench other in manning the line night and day continuously, until suf- ficient men of the new Militia have been trained to take over the responsibility in the autumn.

Not since the Napoleonic wars, when the Martello Lowers were manned by volunteers, has there been any parallel to this great effort in British history,

For the purpose of combined exercises with the Royal Air Force the country is divided into zones.

We have aircraft fighting zones, in which there are no guns but in which large num-

to illuminate the sky for our bers of searchlights are required own fighter aircraft, Holding the Target

WE

VE have gun zones, where the searchlights pick up the target and hold it for the A.A. batteries to deal with. These areas are, naturally, avoided by our own

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predictor crews. They discover the They have proved elevation and bearing to the target well worthy to hold Britain's Ma- TECHNICALLY the gun is and flush on the information to the ginot Line, which is not an affair of concrete, but dug-outs, wire and no longer considered to guns by electric cables,

formed by the fighting aircraft, the On

have searchlights, many

guns and balloons of

occasions

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in position on its Maginot Line, it shell-as near to the target as possi- gunners at work, and their emclency country.

When the shell bursts the is very impressive. Their ranks are garded as a fortress, capable of both

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light" years

had been war

Iments beams and pass the in- then get ready to focus the allowed to lie fallow for years,truder on from one zone to another. Shipyards had become

An Anti-Aircraft Battalion Hoyul Engineers (TA) is the largest unit familiar with the breaking up of in the British Army. At present the strengths average about 50 officers old war vessels than with the and 1,500 other ranka.

section A

by a is commanded building of new, Armament fuc-heutenant, whose lights may be dis- tories erected and expanded in posed at intervals of about two mlies

over 14 square miles of territory.

This is the most responsible subal- the war years had in some cases tern officer's, command ever devised. become derelict and in others und he cannot look after it emelent-

ly without a car, with which he is be the weapon, but rather the means had been adapted to the demands provided.

When the Searchlight Battalion is of delivering a weapon-ic, the watched our Territorial sappers and the coast and air defences of the of peace-time industries. The

covers hundreds of square miles ble. construction of aeroplanes had with its 96 searchlights. The pro- range is increased by at least an full of veterans now who know the active and static defence, but thanks blem of supply and transport must, other 300 yards as splinters of metal game completely. For years they to the mobility of our defence forces hurl themselves through the air. were required to make bricks with we can take the counter-offensive dwindled to the affair of a com-therefore, be decentralised.

Instead of the quartermaster The puffs of white smoke which out straw, but the emergency of too, should that be necessary.

such 35 ment rations,

Surprise attack will be impossi paratively small group of firms. sending

surrounding a target September last, when for the first may and groceries, out. the com sometimes, without apparently hit time in history Territorials were ble from any quarter when wo man What has since happened is a panies themselves send in to head- ting it, are therefore deceptive; called out in advance of the Regu- our Maginot Line.

depends

them a the lar Anny, gave

prestige will quarters for everything they demonstration of the immense quire, and afterwards they do their everything!

efficiency of the height-finder and which they will long relain. reserve power of industry in the country. In little more than two

The Anti-Aircraft Brigades IA. years the manufacturing capaci- (TA) re ekler from an adminis- trative point of view than their

colleagues. They,! beint ty of the nation has been trans-Royal Engineer

called up for a month

the slightest sign of ainrm the sen formed. Many of the aeroplanes this year, but they will man their

fortnight of UROPE is rapidly being covered war stations for only a

try hus to sound the alarm, and now circling in the air have come that time: the remaining two weeks with an amazing mesh of fort-

light machine guns come into action, will be spent at a practice camp, fications, which will make

while within the fort, just as at sea, from factories whose sites were where they will shoot with live shell upon them teeribly costly.

"the docks are cleared for action." at "Queen Bee" targets.

At the present time Poland is

Elsewhere the troops ore Nor are they split up in the same green fields two summers ago.

feverishly protecting that area in imanner, as they usually work in the south, where

are situated the vividly dubbed it, "the Crust of the stantly digging, camouflaging, and The same is true of much of the

strengthening the mazes of barbed sections and even batteries.

from the curious way in wire. Among the most ingenious the hidden armament with which the land The gunners have a more com-factories that will supply its armies East,"

fortifications devices are the anti-tank defences. fortable time of it when they are in time of war. Russia is likewise which

its western 19

frontiers, "crust" the surface of the country.

nicknamed "asparagus" forces are equipped. Tanks, off

Iduty, but they never know when

a no-man's-land afty miles

This is the nerve centre of French troops. They ure forests of steel artillery, anti-aircraft

by felling forests and clear security and the pivot of the High spikes driven deep into the concrete guns, position to another, so they must out the population of thousands Command's strategy, and it has been beds, and

in times of emergency balloons and mechanical trans- always be at hand.

of villages, afterwards

erecting forts described as being like "a chain of some of the spikes have bombs fixed Mobility is one of the main ad- new anti-alternfi port are being constructed in vantages of our

In western Europe, as the regu alleships moored among the hills to them. These are called "stuffed batteries. After a big shoot they

light cruisers in front of them, apparagus. The anti-tank guns are buildings every brick of which pack up quickly and remove to of the events of last year, the Ger- destroyers guarding the cruisers, placed at ground level to fire direct- has been laid since first the need another position, so that they may mans have had hundreds of thou in front of them, destroyers guatll into the vitals of the monsters.

and a front line live to shoot another day.

sands of men and day and night ing the cruisers,

The defences of the Maginot Line Entrance to the forti- Line, which "submarines.” became apparent, Nor has The co-ordination

the upon searchlights and the guns is mostly months ago they boasted was im fcations is by a light railway five penetrate into the earth for 150 feet Britain reached the height of her They are not linked by an pregnable. Since then Herr Hitler miles long, and the men along the in places, and every post is manned telephone or wireless has ordered strengthening of the line live in portable villages of coś with speed and precision only post- endeavour. Each month now intricate

system between

This formidable bar- lapsible houses, which can be folded ble in an organisation perfected by and fortifications,

ing given the villages by the line adds to the national ability to anottier, this would be unnecessary. rier faces the first and what perhaps up like concertinas in a very short endless practice. On the alarm be

In the outer zones each detach- still is the most marvellous defen- time.

are taken down and the men plunge underground. Below ground soldiers-- sicies the war-time economy.

dash along the corridors on bicycles, with their binoculars. Line, They sit

specially designed.

frontier Determined that

her

Work on the Maginot Line never seize their arms from the rack, and chairs,

of being switched should forever be invlolate, France capable

double up the spiral staircases to Before the end of this year 40 into any position, and if they see an constructed the first of Europe's ceases its defence is incessantly rein their battle stations Gunners set in

is forced; and experience has proved new warships will be afloat, aggressor they shout the news to the gigantic defensive lines. This

aro in manned aight- and Bound-locating

day and never that work is the best means of keep motion the electric chain which crew, who

up ammunition for the guns apart from the 180 auxillary control of the searchlight's beam.

In left for an instant, so that should ing the men cheerful spirls from 150 feet below the surface.

to assault They have their ships. That is a feat in construc-

regular practices The beam follows the intruder not an

The gunners work in ways which hy sight but by sound, so it is use-France's eastern tion outdoing the great output of for him to hide behind a cloud be met with very much resemble the conditions Omelally this vast system of fort!- task is watching and strengthening on board, a battleship. They "lay" turret of line. Watch 19 kept every their weapons just as in 1914 and illustrating afresh the in the hope of escaping detection.

The target is dealt within the fications is the Maginot Line, which the unchallenged capacity of British un zone by the 3.7in, guns, which stretches from the Swiss to the minute of the twenty-four hours in a warship without seeing anything. fire a 281b. shell and can engage an Belgian frontier; the soldiers, how the alarm posts which stick up like but folowing the Indication on a ever, have more picturesquely and the periscope of a submarine. At shipbuilding yards,

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