MAGINOT LINE
INSPECTION BY BRITISH ARMY CHIEF. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 27. Viscount Gort, Chief of the General Staff, is spending a few days in France at the invitation of General Gamelin, Chief of the French General Staff. He will see an exercise with troops and will visit the fortifications of the Maginot Line. The invitation was given personally by General Gamelin when Lord Gort passed through Paris last month on his return from Egypt. He is travelling by air to France tomorrow, and w’Tl be accompanied by Major-General H. R. Pownall, Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, and other staff officers. SPIES SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Conyrieht PARIS, March 28. Victor Steinmetz, a 26-year-oldi Luxemburger, and Gustav Graf, a Swiss, were sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for spying in the vicinity of the Maginot line,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1939, Page 5
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