All buildings between the frontier and the rock have just been demolished, so any attacking force would be vulnerable to a merciless shelling by guns concealed in the practically bomb-proof cancerous rock. There is nothing to obstruct the view of the defending gunners.
The land approach from La Linea, Spain, is studded with mines and any German invaders would have to negotiate;/the Spanish defence line built during the Civil War by German engineers, While the invaders were manceuvring through the Spanish defences, they would be wide open to shelling.
The Spanish press asserts that Gibraltar's chief defence from land attack is a newlyfünished canal system isolating the British territory from the mainland.
Most of the civilian population of several thousand persons, mostly women and children, was evacuated long ago, and the garrison and remaining civilians are prepared for a siege which could go on indefinitely.
There is a danger of repeated bombing, because the rock is vulnerable to air attack since it lacks land bases for defence planes. But the inhabitants can withdraw into the deep catacombs and lofty chambers carved from the rock where bombs never could touch them.
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