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Show ORDER REMOVAL OF SPECIAL FORTS PROTECTING PARIS PARIS, Tuesday. March 18. (Havas.) The chamber of deputies today authorized the removal of special fortifications about Paris, which were erected shortly after the war began. There are three rings of permanent fortifications for-tifications about the city of Paris first, a solid wall of masonry, twenty-two miles in circumference, around the old sections of the citv; second, a system of seventeen seven-teen detached forts arranged at intervals of two miles beyond the wall and making a circuit of the city thirty-four miles in extent; and, third, an outer girdle of forts, seventv-five miles in length, on the heights commanding the valley of the Seine. In August, 191-1, special fortifications fortifica-tions were erected, buildings demolished and trees, which obstructed a clear view of the terrain about the city, wer&ycut down. It is probable that it is this system sys-tem of fortifications which is to be dismantled. |