Paris, May 28.
While German newspapers devotee long articles of praise today to the "impregnability" of the Western, Siegfried Line of German fortifications, French newspapers played up foreign reports on faults in the construction of the Reich's "Maginot Line."
"Lo Jour-Echo de Paris" gave prominence to a despatch from its Amsterdam correspondent, who quoted reports filtering into Holland from reliable quarters in Germany, who painted a very poor picture of the alleged massive Siegfried. Line.
"Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's recent tour of inspection of the Sieg. fried fortifications is stated to have disclosed a state of affairs as unsatisfactory as was possible," the despatch claimed.
"Underground forts which were supposed to provide shelter for heavy artillery have let in water from the Rhine and from subterranean sources.
Cannon have sunk into sandy and wet ground,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.