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Set extended. northward to Durkee ineressed™ in, depth, the French Minister of Defence, "Ni. Bdouard 'He declared that a similar exten' sion. would be made along the Jura: Alpine frontier of Switzerland.
Mi. Daladier "announced in the Chamber of Deputies on November 1096, that the Maginot line of {ortifiatious would be extended from the English channel to the Swiss {rontier at Geneva.
The new plan, he said, would in-. volve the extension of the Maginot Nine from 280 to 600 miles, The [Franco-Swiss frontier of 120 miles [from Basle to Geneva, which had Inever been fortified, would now be protected, M. Daladier explained, to prevent Invasion by any Power which Violated Swiss neutrality.
MIN, Datadier also announced in the [Chamber of Deputies to-day that the great Schneider munitions works. at [Lo Havre'and part of. the Creusot works would be nationalized before the end of Murch, 'M. Daladier further told the Chamber that he had submitted to. the [Cabinet a scheme sor the compulsory training of youth, the Intensive training of reserve officers, industrial mobilzation in the event of war, the speeding-up of mechanization and the building of new main toads on the He added: "Wo believe that war In Europe will be a evil war and we will do our utmost to avoid it, How lever, it is-our duty, to render our frontier invulnerable."
'The Minister of War pointed out that Germany had an army of 1,000, 000 men with. immense. reserves modern aircraft' and navy and an industrial mobilization scheme, He declared that with all her neighbours armin, France must not remain inert and'thus fall an easy. prey. Strikes, he said, tad delayed the armaments programme, but protion was now normal Tue Chamber of Deputies, by 405 votes to 166, authorized a national defence expenditure of £140,000,000 spread over three years.—Reuter,
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