German Activity in North Sea Islands

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 5

German Activity in North Sea Islands

ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE. WORK UNDERGROUND. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 21. Work on the defences of the German N )rth Sea islands ha's been intensified since December, declares the Manchester Guardian. About 80 heavy guns have been mounted at Heligoland, and subterranean aerodromes, arsenals, and petrol depots some hundreds of feet below the surface are now complete. The new “SS” boats, fast torpedo boats with a crew of four, with two torpedo-tubes, satisfied the naval command. The speed exceeds sixty miles an hour. Tho German anti-aircraft defence appears to be ahead of the rest of the world. Thirty anti-aircraft regiments are now complete. Germany’s Reply to Maginot Line Received Saturday, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 22. The Morning Post’s Paris correspondent states that the scale on which Germany is fortifying the left bank of tne Rhine is shown by a Strasbourg report villages in the Bauxnholder and Meisenheim districts of the Palatinate are being evacuated, the inhabitants being settled in Mecklenberg. The German fortifications are not being built immediately on the frontier like the French Maginot line but in the hilly country well inside Germany. The F ’ / Mail’s diplomatic correspondent says that the latest information from Berlin indicates that Germany has now completed the most important part of her rearmament, including an army of 30 divisions and a vast air force.