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West Toronto 9, Ontario lis ne Passeront Pas! 1 Verdun Battle Cry Now Applies to French Eastern Boundary Where New Defence Plans Have Been Completed CREATED BY FOCH Secret Underground Workings to Accommodate all Branches of Service From Artillery to Hospitals Paris.--The greatest experiment in the history of war defence has been worked out by the French General Staff. It is an underground defence that will have whole cities and a population of hundreds of thousands, hospitals, barracks and stores in the depths of the earth. The forts, located in secret pis bankruptcy through a financial .... last year, the work of building the forts has never ceased. It was th« first requisite of peace the high military command considered and nothing was to interrupt or obstruct the work. Not until these forts were completed could France seriously consider the acuation of the Ehineland. Left and equipped with a new type of, without assurances of security from artillery, the most powerful that mod-1 Britain and the United States and em research has produced, will con- J with only Belgium as a constant ally, stitute France's main defence in the, "as she was in the first hour," mili-next war. This ne wsystem of defence'tary authorities insisted that the has practically 'been completed. Con- j forts be built and that France rely on-struction has gone on uninterruptedly (her own resources to ward off an since peace was declared, practically, enemy invasion in the future, unknown to the bulk of the popula-l The high military command was tion. Marshal Foch is the creator of of the opinion that there 'have been .this new system. When it has finally enough invasions. If war should underground. They are impregnable against artillery fire, being constructed of massive concrete. They connect also with immense stores, hospitals, barracks and ma-chin^ shops. Whole cities are practically underground. Armies can march for miles without being seen by the enemy air service. They will suddenly pour cut through the invisible forts of go to reinforce or relieve the garrisons. It is because the Government has confidence in the perfection of this now defence r>y£tte-m and considers that sufficient protection is afforded in the event cf a new invasion that M. Painleve, the Minister of War, will consent to talk about a redaction the term of enlistment for soldiers and that Marshal Foch will take some rest, after being in harness continually since 1914. A staff of the ablest engineers has been at work picking out spots where other points cf resistance may be built up and linked with the genera system. There has been nothing fev erish or hasty in the preparation; everything has been conducted along scientific lines with the utmost i and after considerable consultatio The next war will see France fend itself with these underground cities. They are so constructed that they will be able to hold out independently for a great length of time. Neither man power nor munitions will lack, for there will be concentrations of troops in the depths of the earth--regiments and divisions of them--and they will have the im-nse stores that are being gathered peace-time to draw upon, t is the greatest experiment in the history of defence. Every French-hopes that it never will be necessary to use it. But at any rate, official France feels secure. "lis ne passeront pas!" HOW ABOUT GAS? Such is the report in a recent copy of The Mail & Empire, but the first thing that strikes one w "ground-hogged" it in France during the Great War is "How about gas attacks?" Poison gas is heavier than air and always searched out the dug-out, the funk hole, and the trench bottom. If France has solved bow to counteract this menace then new plan is fine, but so vivid ii the memory of the smell of the vitiated air of the various "caves" along Vimy Ridge brought to mind that one wonders just how greater underground workings can be safely ventilated to assure the security indicated in the above article. been approved and tested by and tactical and practical vres the marshal intends to resign from the directorship of the Supreme War Council. Though the location of the fort circles will remain a secret rigidly guarded by the General Staff, this much is certain that the story of a stupendous concrete trench running all the way from the North Sea to the Swiss border, which popular imagination had conjured up, is a myth. NEW FORTS INVISIBLE. France will rely on nothing so obviously tangible and visible as a con- j rete ditch. The new forts are invis- come again the enemy must stay outside. A repetition of 1914, when the most industrial part of the country was laid waste and national effort handicapped by the cutting off of the whole north had to be prevented. ^ The general staff is of the opinion that the remedy has been found and that the new system will ward off any attack, by land or by air. PLAN DATES FROM 1914. The new plan is not wholly new. It dates from 1914. Even then it became obvious that the old system of fortifications, bastions, walls, bulwarks and defence works was useless. The French watched with alarm ible" and only the General Staff knows 1 ^"ZhmIoI l\ a V ■ * their location. The troops that have t!\tl^ ? crumbled to, pieces worked on them were sworn to sec-1 , x the Germ.*n One recy md labored in monthly batches. : shot went over, the second went short fjes; and the third generally hit. The first None of the soldiers knew m what' ghots w,rf f* B, part of France he was. They were ! VOT. „a rj.Wa held in barracks and were not allowed to communicate with peasants neighborhood, receive or send letters. e fired to find the exact larkable accuracy of _ | the German gunners and the destruc-': tive power of their guns made of the • j forts a ridiculous anomaly. the motto of the German the brink of .artillery became "One shot,' one fort.' If the Belgians resisted for fourteen days and held up the German advance for that length of time it was because the Belgian infantry opposed its flesh and blood to German steel and high explosive. Maubeuge was considered impregnable. The forts were of different make-up to those of Liege. Hopes ran high for a day or The "rUrley-Davld.on Single Cylinder £ but™ lon5er; Maubeuge fell after Motorcycle is tho greatest little ma- three days> lts forts smashed out of chine that has been made. Safe _ ride, easy to control, and most econ-1 At Antwerp the lesson had been omlcal. Stands without a rival. 100 learned. Forts were useless. 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