FRANCE: Peeping Planes

Afraid to trust loose-tongued civilian labor, the French General Staff last week had French and Senegalese soldiers at work completing la patrie's chain of super-secret frontier defense works among the forests of Alsace and the Moselle. Just as the new secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping...

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