Paris, July 10.
The National Defence Ministry has issued a statement which stresses that the air defence organization in the southern French border. region, particularly in the eastern Pyrenean sector, has not been weakened as had been asserted by a certain section of the French press.
The statement points out that merely some.batteries with an obsolete type of anti-aircraft gun had been replaced by batteries equipped with the latest type of gun. The defence system had therefore not been weakened but strengthened as protection against any possible future raid by Spanish planes violating the French frontier.—Trans-Ocean.
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