DEEP DEPENCE LINE AHEAD

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 7

DEEP DEPENCE LINE AHEAD

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 18. Prisoners reveal that the Adolf Hitler Line has been under construction for the last three months by the Todt organization, which built the Siegfried Line and the Atlantic Wall, states a Naples correspondent. , , It is estimated from aerial photographs that a stretch of the line extending across the Liri Valley for a distance of over eight miles contains more than 200 large bunkers, about 70 pillboxes, and minor concrete works. There ’.s also a continuous line of wire, and about 12 miles of anti-tank ditches linking the natural obstacles of deep watercourses. All houses have been demolished to provide a clear field of fire. LONDON, May IS. . . The German news agency commentator, Praegner, declared that no defence system named Hie Adolf Hitler Lint/ exists. “By inventing such a name,” he said, “the Allies try to imagine successes which so far they have not achieved. A German High Command communique says that fighting has flared up in the Nettuno beach-head and that strong enemy thrusts south of Cisterna and souta of Littoria have been repelled.