Not a human being. is in sight in this photograph of the Maginot Line which shows, for the first time,-a-stretch of the steel and concrete units together with "asparagus beds" of steel rails forming the huge tank: barrier in front of the line. The air of desolation gives a new significance to the familiar phrase—"All quiet on the Western Front."
Other enterprises closed because of strikes are the China Soap Ca., British, likewise in the Japanese sector, and the Chinese Aluminium Rolling Mills, Swiss, also in Yangtszepoo. Six hundred men are idle at the former establishment, 250 at the latter.
Mediators failed to settle the strike involving the 3,000 workers at the Wing On Cotton Mill No, 3, Markham Road, en almost for granted.
for r to its construction, tne men eon lobby and Parlia-necessary credits ni salle tends over 300 kilometres. A grea! deal of the credit for its meticulous construction reverts to M. Belhague, inspector-general of the engineering corps that built the Line.
Three metres of reinforced concrete capture temporarily only five out of 20 casemates, and that only after they had pumped 120,000 shells into its concrete worl The aerial problem, too, was dealt with when the Maginot Line was built, The Spanish civil war showed, in proof of the French engineers 2eleulations, that while a 110-pound Somb falling from a height of 1000 metres, penetrates concrete to a depth 3f 50 centimetres, (20 inches) an 1100-pound bomb penetrates only 52 centimetres (21 inches) and a 2200- "ound bomb, very seldom used in warfare because of its weight, pentrates but 1.08 metres (43 inches).
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