New York, Aug. 3. The Franco-Swiss border in the "At a coastal resort, the Army tried out a plan for meeting a landing in one of the bays. Defences had been prepared to meet attacks anywhere along that stretch of cliff-line. Secret defence positions were being built up with hardly any alteration to the outlines of the innocent looking landscape. A little more obvious but their exact meaning well obscured by all of the thickets of the new art of camouflage, were beach defences, against which young women rested and knitted in the sun.
"General Sir Ronald Adam, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Command, is confident that the people of the north will face any German shock and like it," the correspondent concluded.
"Ground defences in the Eastern Command have been tremendously strengthened in the past few weeks," says another correspondent, who visited this vital sector.
The Home Guard there is playing an important part in the defence of inland waterways. They are providing a ceaseless patrol, which makes it possible for the main defence unit—a mixed naval and military force, commanded by a Naval officer—to become a 100 per cent striking force, ready to throw its weight against the enemy wherever they may appear.
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