FRENCH WAR EFFORT
EXTENSION OF MAGINOT LINE FIGHTING LOSSES TO DATE. COMPARISON WITH 1914. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) PARIS, December 22. M Daladier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, said the Maginot Line had been extended to the Northern Jura frontier. The whole. French army was pouring concrete and creating second and third positions. The Chamber passed credits for the first quarter of 1940. Mr Daladier said that priority was being given to aviation and the manufacture of anti-tank weapons, which had revealed their power. The new and more modern planes leaving the factories would be most redoubtable weapons. The French losses to November 30 were:—Killed, Army, 1136; Navy, 256; Air Force, 42. It is recalled that France lost 450,000 men in the openingperiod of the last war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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