THE GERMAN FRONTIER
; A GREAT DEFENSIVE CHAIN,
:■' Gennany-has' (V tgtal frontier length of 4570 miles; On the north, the country la bounded by' the North.' Sea .(293 miles), Denmark (47 m.4es), flhd the Baltic (327 miles. Qn the south mountain rpnges and the Lake of Consfeuce' separate - it from Aiisfcia; - (10i3 wiles),dud Switzerland ; (256 miles). On the oast Germany 18. bounded by Bussia for 843 miles; on tho west by Franco (212 miles), Luxemburg (111 miles),' Belgium (70 miles), aiid Hqlland (377 uiilcs),. The fortress dlSr tricts and".the name.s.of the fortresses Jμ each areiT'-Konjgsbergs Konigsberg, , Pj-n. eig (coast), Billau (coast), Iwmcl (coast), iiiid Bozeii, • Pose'n: Qlogan (railways protection and obstruction), Ncisse, Glatz. Berlim Spandau, / Magdeburg, Torgau (railway protection and obstruction), Kustrin. Maine; Majnz, Ulrn, Easfatt; Metzj Jleb, Dledonhofen (railway protection hiW obstruotion), Cologne: Cologne, Koblenz, Wesej .(railway protection), SaOTlooie (railway protection), Kiel j Kjp], PriedTiphsort (coast), Cuxliaven (coast), Geestemunde.(coast). .Wilhelmphaven : (ooaet), Swinemunde (cbaati. Thorn- Thorn, Graudimsj, Vistula. : Passages, .Uirsohau. :Straßsburg; Strassbnrg, New Biieisach'; Munich) Ingolstadt, Geimerslieim '(railway' protection), ■'. ' - These fortresses are all. connected with each, other by "means of underground telegraphs; au.d_ strategical railway, Jites run from the 'njUitary ?entrps the frontiers,'■> ■, "■ • '■■ ■ • ■"'■■■"•
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2228, 14 August 1914, Page 7
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192THE GERMAN FRONTIER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2228, 14 August 1914, Page 7
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