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FREDERICK W. ROLF Rock Island...
...east, west and south exposures, mortars and rifles up to 16 inches, capable of hurling metal 20 miles, guard the Rock and deny the Strait of Gibraltar to surface ships. The naval base on the west is protected by chain booms and a minefield...
Despite Britain's array of power in the Rock, British Military Expert Captain Liddell Hart believes it untenable as a naval base and the German High Command believes it crackable as a fortress...
...friendship, and Spain's occupation of Tangier last fortnight was no friendly omen. The pounding which Franco's guns could give warships inside Gibraltar's moles and booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...members of the Foreign Legion performed the most reckless "Beau Geste" of all at the fortresses of Joux and L'Ecluse. These strongholds, cut into shoulders of the Jura Mountains above Bellegarde near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where the Rhone boils under sheer rock cliffs. The Legionnaires' commander telephoned to the nearest German general, at Pontarlier: "Come and get us." The Germans came. They captured Bellegarde. When they stormed up to the forts, the Legionnaires threw them back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans landed parachute troops...