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The Seaforth News, 1933-01-19, Page 3.THURSDAY, JANIUARY 19, 1933. r THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE THREE. Services We Can Render In the time of need PROTECTION is your 'best friend. Life Insurance • —To :protect your LOVED ONES, Auto Insurance— To protect you against LIABILITY to PUB'LIC and their PROPERTY. Fire Insurance— To protect your H'OM'E and its OONTENT,S. Sickness and Accident Insurance— To protect your INCOME Any of the above lines we can give. you in strong and reliable companies' If interested, call or write, E. C. CHACiBERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Thane 334 Seaforth, Ont THE GREAT WALL OF FR'ANC'E .When the nes was spread -broad that France had b'egu•n to build a wall, of 'foidbifi!cationsalong, her 'eastern. frontiers::which would take an army of 10,000, workmen five years to fini's'h and would cost inure` than $100,000,- 000 many people were surprised and •neany critical. The French answer to 'these exlpress'i!onia of corpus as well as to. the critidism'is the ,s'a'nde'thatt•ha'a been roadie Lor the past ten years: "We recall—we cannot help recallinig' that French 'territory has beenin- vaded from the .north four Mimes the space'of 0'20 years." And as one' of lour writers has said with a good deal .of humor: 'The first time it might have been an accident, the seco5d miglhlt have been a relapse, but the. third time, it looked like a chronic dis- ease, and the fourth •time brands it as an incurable habit " That is why iFaance ,feels 'herself obliged to protect her 'herder by solid fortifcations, and in any event, .'that is, why slhe is bu'ildin'g .that ,great fine oIf fortilflcations>ito,dlay. Let u.s see how' ,she is going about it, After long 'study and numerous 'hesitations, Idle ''bench general Staff finally' .decided on the system Of a 'chain .o8 defenses drawn across the .whole 'length o +fthe north- east and so'tilthe'aslt (borders, from !Dun- kirk t Dunkirk' to (Basle' and been !Mont iBlanc to Nice. It will be a chain 'Whose links, 'however, are neither of the same .size nal of 'bhe 'same kind. 'The French border is in :fact es varied in +its a's- 1'4ects as is the :country 'itself. In the 1r lbeth .from iDunki k to: ILuxentburg is long stretch of plain covered with unban agglomerations, one . after the other is ,the closest succession. It would be itlpassi+ble to construct 'fo'nts :and trenches there, espec'ial'ly as (the neighboring 'country is tl3elgism, with !whom !France has 'been traditionally friendly, and with 'whom she is de- fensively allied. lOnly small Shelters will be ,established '0 this region, sup- Iplemenited by a "flying forti'ficati'on, a now c'on'ception of defense. In case of neecssity the region of Dunkirk .can 'always be probeoted by , Opening the floodgates;'Soutth of (Luxemburg begins immediately the wide and only elevated ,plateau :called 'the '.thnghWaY 'oIf tLornaine. St ms bhe trd!i- t e? is ,fntvaston bacaus ttilioni route a4slightly ;without any 'natural protection; Here elle country is in' direct contact, 'with (Germany; here' is the most sensitive ispot, b'ecau'se it is the point ;iwlhere .des- ,tiny has .concentrated the greatest un- dustrial riches: *1 Frnnne. Here, there- fore, every kind :olf olbsltac'le must 'b:e 'as.,embled — 'blocks of cement .and 'barbed wire entanglem'en'ts for at this point the chain of defense must attain its Maximum 'thickness 'and tpo= !ver of ,res+isitan'c'e, 'Further on :begin the Vosges with their great forests and 'passes, where in will be sufficient 'to prepare for a Methodical destruc (tion 'df 'the ev'o,odied routes :by urines and tlo protect the ,passes with light ,defenses and a scattered pill -,box 'forti- tfiealbian line. (Lastly, al'on'g ,Alsace from 'K:emlbs to Basle, :a distance ,olf' about a • hun Bred miles, 'flews the :Rhine. 'Fo'ci said -during 'the ,peace negotia'tion's "Give me the 'Rhine as a ,frontier and with six divisions a will ,guaraii- tee to .hold it so ,that you can thi,sar'm iii all tranquillity." And this re'm'ains ;true ,today, 'for no i!orbuficatio,ns are being raised on the banks of the now demilitarized (Rhine,,'The 'construction of concrete pill -boxes every Mile or so is considered sufficient to guard the trenches and t ilil-boxes and gun em- ITretnc!htes. t plecerneit'ts. 'The work presents untold 0!n: this 200 -miles stretch from Lux - difficulties, unlike any :oltiher on 't'h'e em!buig to 'Basle along the 'German wbol'e IFlren'c!h''bonder, 'for here nature (frontier, she entire s!ch'eme is bai- h•a's taken the 'op'posite ,tack ,and offers anced and interlocked. The small the defender no 'Aid, for :site Ifurnis'hes 'links in tihe chain are supported' by. no water, no sand .and no easy means 'tfte 'larger, and'the . biggest ones in of aeees's, 'Considering ail This, it will turn s!uplpont the whole. The small readily lbe !seen [what a variety of 'work tna'cltineegun units ,in the front line will be required' in :the forging elf -will permit a fierce resistance against IFrance''s'chain Of defense, whose links infantry, The next unit of grouped are of such unequal fern' !and thick- pillboxes' call resist a combined in cess, while ,all must he 'firmly we'lde'd: Pantry and field .artillery attack, while' together. the largest itnf'ts at 'Huchwaed and The smallest link of ,this chain will IHIstc4eenberg are itti , reality armored be tire. machine-gun 'pillbox," which fonts of thevery newnes't design and is a concrete u'o'olm 'thirty Meet by are built to withstand the highest ,thirty-six. As garrison each of 'these p'olwer artillery. The chain :of defense will shelter twelve men ,six 'feet :below will allow .the border troops .to estab-' ground..All 'these 'pillboxes are 'bur- lislh themselves in solid ,p'a'siti'ons from led deep in the earth ,with only the the first day of hostilities and will. top of 'a tower :projecting a ,few inches ass'u're the peeteetion of the . rich min-' ablove the surface lillee the 'periscope lag and manufacturing cities behind' and gun 'hewer of a submarine ;below thein from any surprise assault by lthe ,water. In !this +tower there is roam !the enemy. The system removes the. 'Ocr only the 'looko:tit linen 'arid ,the Ona- necessity for the fortification ,of the chine 'winner. 'The other ten !nen 'are towns themselves. ,In shent, the chain in the more ,prote'cte'd and separate of defense combines the hnem'an compartment, 'During :an extensive tour 'which 'I made of the whale Incd• I 'visited at least ,thirty of these pill- boxes and did not see any two alike, One was like a kied olE saubtereenean house with two •Stories. !Another had been dug into a ra'i'lway •emlbankinent, ,Another was established in the mound 01 an :ein'b:anktnent along a stream. tI found. one in 'Lower Alsace which had been built in the .muddle of a, Swamp. To snake its foundations they had had to drive in :some 'hundred's df piles, ,as is done in 'bui'ld'ing a bnid'ge, The .cost of se .pill -box of this kind varies .between ,$20,000 ,and $40,_ 000. I'f 'the pill -(box ,is oonnscted :by a tunnel „with an underground shelter several hundred ,'ands away, as is sometimes done, it :may cost as .much as $180,000 or $120,000. ,iAnother'type of constructioncon sists of several 'pill-tboxes' being grouped near one another, connected tby various mean's 'of ,communication and 'equipped •with several machine gains, and in same instances 'with light artillery. This is the .mediu'm-. sized construction and may cost be- tween $400,000 'and $500,000. As :to the big unit, which 'constitutes the main .pillar of defense, it is a 'compli- cated series of work, including shel- ters, magazines and subterranean passages, and is often equipped with heavy artillery. 'Tlhese are lfermid- able things to construct, and that .in the H'aehwa'l'd in .the ''Vosges, or .the one at !Haokonberg ,defending 'Matz, is capable of serving ,as a veritable fort- ress, !These coneter ,pillars which com'niand the. whole .defense chain of the east do net resemtble each other in the smallest degree. H'ackeniberg is a marvel of underground mech- anics, don:taianing a prodigious system 'o'f passages, railroad tracks and elec- tric c'ab'les installed in the very bow- els of a mountain. lit is 1' ke G1 ral _ tar in many respects. Hodhwold, on the c'on'trary, is almost entirely on the surface. A=formidable semi -circle 'af steel and 'cement expends for a dis tante Of mane 'than two miles 'en .circling the sides of :a weeded hill. More than two hundred and fifty means of defense 'w'i'th strong con- 'cre'te fortifications, and in order to 'bor. But of the eighteen concrete penetrate it it will be necessary bo Shelters of the fart thirteen ane still in disable the 'fortificatioins. When such good repair and in the subterrane'an a system of fortlfication extends over (pants nothing except the cistern su'f- a distance of 2120 miles it cannot be Ifer'ed serious damage. - Even more torn up as one would tear up a scrap strange and n'one convincing is the of paper. 'Besides the fined system of exa'mlple of the Fort of M'oulainvislle, fonthficat'ion :so e'lab'orately construct- ed •and enabling each link to cover the other, the French General .Staff 'has 'devised another curious system wh'ic'h hss the advantage of ;being concealed so that it menet he platted on any trap. This consists of what ehe IFrenoh' 'Generals have ,termed the "roolbile ,park" or, more familiarly,' the 'fortification on wheels, ''T'his mobile Part , cons'tibtutes 'a sort Of •movable s'li'ce of fortification. It :oantaine a con- siderable stock of .ntaterial for digging trenches and constructing •shelters and' machine -gust emplacements, a n d equipment, for :quickly installing large systems of 'barbed-wire entangle ments. :Situated la the vicinity of a :rail road or a junction of toads, this park can: rapidly suppiymaterial to be transported either by rail or motor ,trunk to bolster any part of the chain of defense' or to prepare .a new line to fall .back upon, It is es- timated that the mobile park will be able to double the strength of a pose- tioh in two or three, days and that w'ithiet a week it will be able to es- tablish a 'c'omp'lete new system of de- fenses for the region it covers.. IN in 1914 Fnange had possessed' a system of fortification on wheels, the North of France .probably never would have 'been invaded. It is, therefore, •espe'cia'lly, in the north, be- tween Luxemburg and Dunkirk, that this system will be used in the fu- tur'e, I'ts principal advant'a'ges, as the name indicates, is its marvelous mobility. It, can q'ui'ckly be moved n from one place to another and c a be installed anywhere, Another ad- vantage is that it is .relatively inex- pen.s'ive, for a mobile park permitting the installation of .a mile of trenches will not •cost more than $4,000 or $5000 and requires pr.actica'ily no up- ke" Its chief dtsa'vantage is, o, file' well-being of the soldiers has been provided in the pill -boxes and in the small ,shelters, as well as in the forts. In addition to electric lights and wells to furnish c4:r'inleing water, there will be beds, wash bowls with running water and in the larger- shelters, Where hundreds of ;nen can be secure- ly 'housed through ,the heaviest born lb'ardnnent, there ,will be .even electric 'kitchens .and heating ap+paratus, There have na•tural'ly been criti- �eisims. There always are. And the lfirst criticism which comes to ns'ind is this: (W'hat gua'ran'tees are there that all this reinforced concrete will 'hone'? Who can tell.,whether they ,will not be ground into powder he a few (hours by the enemy's .big guns? Did not the world war demonstrate the 'fragility of all armored and concrete 'fortifications? To lthese queries the 'French gen- eral staff replies: "'Go and see Ver- dun," It 'was estimated that the 'Fort of D'ouamront at Verdun wa's .hit in :19'1'6 by not less than 120,000 German and 'French projectiles, and that Of 'these 2,000 were above 270 men, call_ wihaii figure will the efiectiveness of the !French army be reduced -46;e army which seems senorntous when all its reaervles are counted, 'but whicih. in reality amounts to note much more than 200;000 nneli under the colors, orf whom :two-thirds •have more than six months of training, and .could light immediately? 'This •question weighed heavily in the balance when France d'eci.ded to equip and fortify her ea's'tern frontiers. BROOKLYN BRIDGE The R'oebiin'gs, !father and son, de- signed and built the Broakly'n 'Brid'ge bebween 1lh'69 and '11883. At precise'ly. that •peri'o'd the ants' were dead' or :sleeping; pretenblou's and aver -elabor- ate a'tnoci>aies ruled architecture and interior dedcratti.on. Head they taken merely the Moles of the thing into ac - nom* probably we' should have had a ,mess of stone .ornanaen'bs in variegated 'colors and itthatemon!ious shapes, ' However, 'tie Roebl!in'gs were ,pro tfes'sedly not architects, but engineers, d'oi'ng a jab without precedent, How the thing would work—bh'at was their .Main concern. So they built, es first co'ns'ideratio'n, soundly; and sound 'bu'il'ding is, beautiful building, Evice,pt for those little devices by which a goad .wo'rlamne'hidles the rough joint's, 'they seemed not to have considered the appearance of their masterpiece. commanding the plain oil the "Woevre, !There must be approaches, to lift .the (For six months it su'sbained a bon'- span up in, the air and 'clear the tall 'msstts on the river below. The Roeb 'Logs lifted ,them over a series o'f Etches finished off—just by way of hiding the joints --=with 'b'ig .cushions of 'simmered chane. ,At ,the point where the span rises and files across the ri- ver, 'there must be louvers, with double arches, to admit traffic. Doubt- less oubt lelss because that foram 'best suited their engineeri'n'g plan the Roebllinigs designed the arches in Gothic. The towers they finished; at the top in plain, !heavy stone 'That is all; not an inch of carving, reit a 'single concession to ornamenta- tion. When it stood complete the pub- lic shrieked and b'abbled about" this mighty engineering 'feat—'the longest suspension, bridge in the world—the cl'im'ax orf bridge engineering—at last bardmsnt of u'ninaaginable violence and. four times its armored turret was struck by big' shells. Nevertheless all the shelters of the fort without ex- ception withstood the punishment, and the turret, which was .put •out of action only 'twice for space o'f a' few days, fired no less than 51800' slh'ots during the siege. As for bhe Fort of Vieux, wh'i'ch heroically resisted a reg- ular hurricane of -fire, it was conquer- ed only by thirst. The conclusion, as it is now taught in the .Fren'eh Reale d'e Guenre, is that "in the fo:rrnid'able struggle that took place in 191114'-18 be- tween cannon and armor it was the armor that won," And that conclu- sion applies to tomorrow as it does to today. The second criticism directed against the plan adopted relates to ,the link between New Yank 'aid the trennendous development :and Pr'o IBro'oldly!n—the +pro'mise of a greater gres's that aviatibh is making each day. Now York. About its ,beau't , Aviation is only a m'ethod of de- y people tructiott: •ft is porta method of in_ said' very little. It was just as well to svarier. In order to throttle a people, keep quiet about that. The new bridge yott must occupy their territory and'h'adn't a single Ghibelline battlement, bold 0. It will, therefore, always be a single inset olf red brick and white u•e'cessaryto'eross the frontiers with :marble, a s!intgle-.panel wi'thdedoration men and cannon and penetrate deeply of glided cattails. into the territory. That is why, in the 'last analysis, the defense of the ,fron- tiers . will bring'' about victory or de- feat.;.: The entire program is to he ac- complished by '1913'4, which, with the 'fotir following years, will be as oracle.' period for France. At that time she will have to face the gap in the d byhe ranks of her'armies produce t falling off.of the birth rate due • to ,com'e'ly,` s'ugge'stive, breath -taking, sat- t'he war. Each class, which is to say ,isfyinlg.,tHolwever, I for one prefer the the group of young 'nen of 20 years of age called to do twelve months of oonn'pulsory service, averages at the present about 240,000 men, acres of ground had:to be.dug' tap and d f among whom could be counted about ;worked in' its con'st'ruction. The !French .Engineering Corps h'a's Club b'e'd' this .edbraordlinia'ry fortification which will cost $4,000,000, "the 'Gian't's ' R Rheumatism Goes Swollen Joints Vanish PAIN EASED FIRST DAY If you suffer 'from crippling rheu- matic .pains, lame, ]slotted nnnscles or stiff, swollen joints, it's because your,t systene is full of the irritating poisons that cause 'rheumatism and make thousands helpless, What you need right,now is RU -MA, the new, internal medicine that acts directly on the liver, kid- neys and' blood, and expels through the natural channels of elimination these dangerous poisons. Only- an interne" remedy will do this. No long waiting for your suffering to stop—eV-M'A eases pain first day and so quickly end,s'a'fe'ly ends stiffen- ing, crippling lameness acid torturing pain 'that Chas, .Aberhart urges every rheumatic sufferer to get a bottle today. They guarantee it, But ,better educated eye's see tcleariy what' the Roeb'lintgs did. In the decades of .dheatp :soph'isticati'on, they 'built simply with a view to sound construc- tion, ansi so recaptured the shyprim- itive, It remains the finest`Am'erican :architectural manumenit of their age, You need not search 'for a:fav'oralble rplo'lnit :from whlbch: to behold .the 'Brook- lyn n 'Build . Seen. et e on anyangle, it is Y g g' , icourse, that it will never offer either 1180,000 dpossible combatants for the the protection or the connfont that is defense of the houne country. To provided by the fixed fortification. what level will this figure fail in the tp'assege. IThe chain is 'bi'oleen from 'Basle to 'Mont Blanc. Th ore are no defenses •oi any kind. 'France, the friend of ISw!ilt- zerlandl as she is of lBelgiun?, believes (that the former :would _defend lvers.elf like ,the +latter if ler neutrality was violated But the •eleaitt ,begins again at Ntton't 'Bl'an'c and extends across the 'Alps, to Nice, 'Here nature ,has taken. upon herself to .build the 'greeter part of the defenses. !Site has raised'' a 'gi- ,ga•ntic rocky :barrier pierced only by a few 'bi taches: ,This barrier is in it- self a'sufficien't dielense,'ancl as fbr'the !breaches, 'which number' exactly 'tett from ISwittze•r-liaaid to the ...Mediterran- ean, it has 'been !found sufficient 'to fortify six which do not 'lead to stra- tegic .points by the simple means of resltahlis'hin'g .mine containers 'to 'per mit the rapid destruction oIf roads. !and bridges on 'the 'way. 'The o't!her Ifour,'ont the contrary, will he strongly' barred, ' as .they lead s'•ti-aight to the envied objective, Nice. ;('hese ,,valleys will he Ibranisfor•med into a netwo.r''k of ,glliamp'ses from the :dock region olf the lower East 'Slide, where the western tower hangs like a vision above the 'low roofs and decks of Cherry Hill; Where the el'ev'ated trains, 'doursing dver'tho ru'nlway, move •through the air with the swo'orp of a bird in flight, land lose themselves in the gray and violet ETHEL LE NEVE. That is not the name by which she is known in wetsern Australia, living in a cramped' room looking out on the Indian ocean' across which she fled many years ago to escape the putblic's glare after figuring in the . Crippen, murder case which 's'hocked the world in 119110, Ethel le !Neve is living in the direst poverty under an :assumed name —.and he'r'al'ias will remain a secret, Though s'til'l young—she is only thir- ty-eight—Ethel le Neve is greying now and 'worn, for she has gone through many vissicitudes since the body of Belle 'Elmo -re Crippen was found under the basement floor of a, house in 'Camden Town,.+Lon'd'on,. twenty-two years ago. "I only 'hope that some one will be kind enough to' regard me as something obher than the sinning woman that t1 'have been painted. I was an innocent girl of sixteen arvhen I became D r. Crippen's typist," she recalled. "He became in- fatuated with me. He beat me. Yet I loved 'him!? After Dr. Crippen was sentenced to death for poisoning Mrs. Crippen, Ethel le INeve was acquit- ted of complicity in the Murder. To- day she reiterates her .inrto'cen'ce, "Lit- tle did d realise," she said, "on those nights when I visited tDr. Crippen in his London flat that under the base- ment floor was the body of his 'wife. Dr. Crippen had' told ''me .that he would divorce her and marry me," "'Crippen," she said, "had a constant premonition that'he -'would die for me." Miss' le Neve recalled the' quirk of fate that prevented their escape. Crippen's arrest was one of the first' in which wireless played apart. Wire- less hard 'jest been installed' on the steamer Montrase. S'u a panic, after being questioned several bines by po- licewife's dis'a disappearance, lic about his ePp , Crippen fled to the ICentinen!t and there booked passage: on hoard this boat for 'Canada. 'The .girl, !bl'i'ndly fol- lowing his instructions to diskuise herself as a boy, went with him. "Dr. Crippen had been telling me the mar- vels of this, new miracle of wireless that had just been installed on the Montrose. 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