Ready Mined
Tiie little Grand Duchy is in a spot. It has no defences whatever, lint, it has got a big and important steelworks which makes it even more attractive to tfio Germans.
They would net get them, though, if they did outrage the neutrality of the Grand Duchy. I hey are a small hut pesky people. -The moment any German troops cross the frontier, the steelworks would heave out of its foundations and collapse into immense wreckage. It is all mined for such an emergency.
The Allies—sympathetic though they are towards tile* tilth' Grand Duchy—have been busy with their plans. Anything that the Germans may do to the Grand Duchy will not surprise them. r l hey will he a hop ahead # of General von Brauehiiseh whatever he does in those parts.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 273, 20 December 1939, Page 1
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133Ready Mined Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 273, 20 December 1939, Page 1
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