As a measure for national dex fence." the new arrival revealed, villages are forcibly amalgamated to form bigger defensive units, Any village which has been noticed to amalgamate with some other village but has been found reluctant to obey the order will be burnt ¢own without merey.
In newly amalgamated villages strong fortifications, he asserted, are Dulit and trenches are dug by conscript labour. Expenses for" such defence works are borne by the villagers themselves.
While previously blockhouses were mostly built of strategic posttions or on hilltops, they are now, widely built on plains, serving asa network of fortifeations. "Obs vation towers and signal stations are constructed at a distance of every Besides the network of telegraph and long-distance telephone lines which have been completed, under-round "telegraph and. telephone Wires, he said, are also being Instale Ted to meet any emergency.
To facilitate heavy military tra port, he further stated, main highways which "are consider portant. In. "national defence ye been" re-surfaced with stone and other hard substances,
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