"Casements have had to be eva-enated by soldiers because the re-infareed concrete used in their construction was of a mediocre quality.
"A new line of retreat': will have io be built from three to five kilometres behind the Siegfried Line over a stretch of about 50- kilometres, experts accompanying Herr Hitler admitted after the tour of inspection.
"Departmental heads of the Reichs-wear have. already been. dismissed and a severe investigation opened. by Field Marshal. Hermann- Goering, Director of the Four Year Plan, to place the responsibility for this disaster.
"According to reliable Netherlands sources, German experts believe that the changes which: will have to be made to the Siegfried Line will take at least two or three years of hard labour, the newspaper's despatch concluded.—Havas.
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