GATES AS SNARES
| BELGIAN TANK TRAPS NEW DEFENCE LINES LESSON FROM POLAND RAPID NAZI DRIVE (Reed. Nov. 2, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 1. The Brussels correspondent of the New York Times says that anticipating a lightning tank invasion, 1 similar to that carried out by the Germans in Poland, Belgium has constructs' an ingenious modern Chinese wal. along her main, defence lines. "I have just seen sections at Namur and Liege comprising movable ste< gates 6ft. high, mounted on roller:' like those used on tennis courts.' states the correspondent. "They ar anchored by cables strung on railand set in concrete. "Unable to surmount the obstael" a tank would become ensnared, offe: ing an easy target. The Belgiar claim that artillery can blow th gates skyhigh; yet they return to th • same place and continue'to functio; They can. easily be rolled to othc lines."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 5
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144GATES AS SNARES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 5
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