DUCHY OF LUXEMBURG
JOINT GUARANTEE SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON. July 3. The ‘’Daily Telegraph's” Paris correspondent says it is understood that France is suggesting that Britain and France guarantee Luxemburg. Although united commercially with Belgium and Holland, the pocket-hand-kerchief duchy of Luxemburg has been constitutionally independent since 1890 except during the Great War. when it was occupied by German troops in the invasion of Belgium. Back into the feudal area the territory was part of the lands ruled for 400 years by the house of Hapsburg. and from 1815 to 1890 it was ruled by the King of the Netherlands. The duchy covers 999 miles, has a population —mainly living from agriculture and mining—of about 300,000, and is wedged between Belgium. Germany and France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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126DUCHY OF LUXEMBURG Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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