MAGINOT LINE
ROSES TO BLOSSOM ALONG FORTIFICATIONS. Roses will blossom along the Maginot Line, thanks to a society which has provided sufficient rose tree roots to embellish the grim line which France has been obliged to build to protect herself against possible invasion. Across the Rhine, work is continuous on fortifications, and often the young French soldiers wave their hands to those to whom they wish no harm, but never an answering wave is given, not because youth one side of the river refuses to wave back a message of goodwill to youth the other side of the river, but, the French soldiers believe, because of fear of consequences.
Recently a young French soldier of the engineer corps was accidentally cast adrift in a small boat. The current carried him to the German shore, despite his efforts to keep to the French side, and he thought he was going to be arrested. A'German soldier in a motor boat came to his aid. towed him upstream to where the French shore could be easily reached, and. leaning over the side of the boat hidden from the German shore, he shook hands with the French soldier before giving his boat a shove to enable him to land once more among his own people.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 9
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211MAGINOT LINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 9
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