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...behind guarded frontiers since 1933 it was reported that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...
...east, from the Vosges to the Rhone Valley, fresher French divisions yielded ground dearly. Surrounded by the German horde that swept through Verdun from the west and the Maginot Line from the east, 500,000 fortress troops stood in isolated squares and fought until the signing at Compiegne was announced to them...
When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
...Abandoned its almost surrounded Maginot Line...
Last week was the worst week yet for democracy-Italy entered the war, Paris fell, the Maginot Line was broken, indications pointed to a separate peace by France over the weekend. But the market reacted to Italy's war declaration by bouncing four lusty points off the floor (111.84), closing next day at 115.97. The fall of Paris pushed it to 122.27. While volume was only 40% of the average of Panic Weeks I and II in May, the market nevertheless closed the week at 123.36, up 12.52 points from...