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Defence

Mans Her

Line

Britain

Maginot

by

Daily Mail

Lieut.-Col. T.

T. A.

A. LOWE Services Correspondent

BRITA Maginot Line.

DRITAIN, too, nów has

Seven divisions of

our Ter- ritorials have begun this week the vast task of manning that Line. Battalions of the Royal Royal Engineers, complete with searchlights, and brigades of Royal Artillery, with the latest 3.7in. anti-aircraft guns, are moving into their war stations, and from Land's End to John oʻ Groats the country is being "covered" by a defensive force ready for action at any moment, Units are serving for a month at a time and will relieve each 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 MEUN.

Not since the Napoleonic wars, when the Martello towers 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

VE have gun zories, where

the searchlights pick up the target and hold it for the A.A. batteries to deal with. These areas are, naturally, avuided by our own

We have aircraft fighting BEHIND the display of might

zones, in which there are no on land and sea and in the guns but in which large num-

to illuminate the sky for our air which we are now witnessing bers of searchlights are required lies a story of national resource own fighter aircraft. of which the country may be Holding the Target proud, but which the English- man treats almost as if it were a matter of routine.

When the necessity for rear-aeroplanes where possible. mament became apparent enormous manufacturing capaci-strategic points round the coast. They plot probable courses and pass ty manifested during the later the information back to the search- years of the war had been ments then get ready to focus the

light battalions. Locating

allowed to lie fallow for years. truder on from one zone to another. searchlight beams and pass the in- Shipyards had become familiar with the breaking up of old war ve sels than with the

News of hostile aircraft is rc- theceived from the watchers and lis-

teners of the Observer Corps

more

at

instru-

An Anti-Aircraft Battalion Hoyal Engineers (TA) is the largest unit. in the British Army. At present the

strengths average about 50 olleers and 1500 other ranks,

A section is commanded by a

posed at intervals of about two miles When Splinters Fly over 19 square miles of territory.

building of new. Armament faceutenant, whose lights may be dis-

predictor crews. They discover the tories erected and expanded in

elevation and bearing to the target This is the most responsible subat- the war years had in some cases

ECHNICALLY the gun is and flash on the information to the tern officer's command ever devised, and he cannot look after it enclent- become derelict and in othersy without a car, with which he is be the weapon, but rather the means many Occasions I have searchlights, had been adapted to the demands provided.

TECH

no longer considered to guns by electric cables.

On

themselves

proved They have well worthy to hold Britain's Ma- inot Line, which is not an affair of dug-outs, wire and concrete, but formed by the fighting aircraft, the guns and balloons of of delivering a weapon-i.c.. the watched our Territorial sappers and the coast and air defences of the

country. When the Searchlight Battalion is shell as nese to the target as possi- gunners at work, and their efficiency

Great Beltuin can now be re- of peace-time industries. The in position on its Maginot Line, it

the shell bursts the is very impressive. Their ranks are garded as a fortress, capable of both covers hundreds of square miles ble. When construction of aeroplanes had with its 06 searchlights, The pro- range is increased by at least an- full of veterans now who know the netive and static defence, but thanks they to the mobility of our defence forces blem of

of supply and transport must, other 300 yards as splinters of metal game completely. For years

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.

the emergency of 100, should that be necessary. The pulls of white smoke which out straw, but quartermaster paratively small group of firms. sending

meat" may be seen

Surprise attack will be impossi- such

surrounding a torget September last, when for the first and groceries, unt, the com sametimes, without apparently hit time in history Territorials were, ble from any quarter when we man

It, Ore What has since happened is a panies themselves send in to head ting

therefore deceptive; called out in advance of the Regu- our Maginot Line.

manned reinain them a prestige will the tar depends upon quarters for everything they reseverything

Army, gave which they will long retain. demonstration of the immense quire, and afterwards they do their efficiency of the height-finder and

into the carving reserve power of industry in the small joints necessary for the de-f

tachments to cook. country. In little more than two

The Anti-Aircraft Brigades RA. (T.A.) are luckier from an adminis- their point of view than Engineer colleagues. They.

years the manufacturing capaci-

Nor

has

Instead

of the

rations,

own

trative Royal

nt a

numerous

passes.

And the Line

until

fenr

THE MAGINOT LINE

assault

Facts about France's Ring of Steel

hidden

ty of the nation has been trans-too, are being called up for a month

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

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

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

light machine mins come into action, whi be spent

fications, which will make practice camp,

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

"the decks are cleared for action." at "Queen Bee" largets.

A1 the present time Polond is

CAPTAIN J. L. STRONG

Elsewhere the troops are con- green fields two summers ago. Nor are they split up in the some feverishly protecting that aren in

manner, as they usually work in the south, where The same is true of much of the sections and even batteries.

are situated the vividly dubbed it, "the Crust of the stantly digging, camouflaging, and factories that will supply its armies East. from the curious way in strengthening the mazes of barbed ingenious wire. Among the most armament with which the land The zuuners have à more comin time of war. Rustla is likewise which the

fortifications

devices are the anti-tank detences, feetable time of it when they are defending its western frontlers, "crust" the surface of the country.

nicknamed

by “'asparagus"

the forces are equipped. Tanks, of duty, but they never know when making a no-man's-land fifty miles This is the nerve centre of French troops. They are forests of steet artillery, anti-aircraft

they might have to move from one wide by felling forests and clear security and the pivot of the High spikes driven deep into the concrete guns, position to another, they must ing 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.

Mobility is one of the main ad- of villages, afterwards erecting forts described as being like "a chain of some of the spikes have bombs dxed

of steal and concrete.

battleships moored among the hills, to them. These are called "stuffed port are being constructed in vantages of our new anti-aircraft

batteries. After buildings every brick of which

it big shoot they or the events of last year, the Ger- destroyers gulrding the

In western Europe, as the result with light cruisers in front of them, apparagus. The anti-tank guns are cruisers, placed at ground level to fire direct- pack up quickly and remove to has been laid since first the need another position, so that they may mana have had hundreds of thou in front of them, destroyers guard-ly into the vitals of the monsters.

live to shoot another day,

sands of men, toiling day and night ing the cruisers, and a front line The defences of the Maginot Line

which submarines." Entrance to the forti- became apparent.

Siegfried Line, co-ordination

the upon Britain reached the height of her searchlights and the guns is mostly months age they boasted was im Alcations is by a light railway five penetrated every post is manned

visual. They are not linked by an pregnable. Since then Herr Hiller miles long, and the men along the n intricute telephone.or wireless has ordered a strengthening of the ine live in portable villages of col- with speed and precision only possi endeavour. Each month now

endless system

practice. On the alarm be- and fortifications. This formidable bar-lapsible houses, which can be folded ble in an organisation perfected by one zone adds to the national ability to another; this would be unnecessary. rier faces the first and what perhaps up like concertinas in a very short ing given the villages by the line

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

are taken down and the men plunge underground. Below ground soldiers.

war-time economy.

their binoculars. Line.

dash along the corridors on bicycles, Determined that designed

her frontier They sit on specially

switched a should forever be inviolate, France Work on the Maginot Line nevee elze their arms from the rack, and double up the 'spiral staircases to the first of Europe's ceases its defence is incessantly rein-

Gunners sat in Before the end of this year 40 chairs, capable of being

their battle stations. Into any position, and if they see an constructed

lines. This is forced, and experience has proved motion the electric chain new warships will be afloat, aggressor they shout the news to the gigante debt and day and never that work is the best means of keep us up ammunition for the

who

In manned apart from the 180 auxiliary source the searchlight's beam.

sound-locating

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

attempt 10 assault They have their regular practices The beam follows the intruder not an enemy

The gunners work in ways which ships. That is a feat in construe-

by sight but by sound, so it is use-France's eastern frontier they would and plenty of sport, such as football. tion outdoing the great output of less for him to hide behind a cloud be met with immediate resistance. matches, but their most important very much resemble the conditions

of escaping detection. Offcially this vast system of forii- task is watching and strengthening on board a battleship. They "loy 1914 and illustrating. afresh the in the hope

fa kept every their weapons just as in a turret of The target is dealt with in the fentions is the Maginot Line, which the line. Watch unchallenged capacity of British gun 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

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