COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery

536 THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL
stop in positions previously selected, hut not organized, which n(''''''-theless
presented the advantage of shortening the front more and ri!< .'e.
LINES UPON WHICH TO FALL BACK
The German High Command had selected several lines upon which
their armies could fall hack. The principal ones were the following:
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1. A line ~Ietz-Mezieres-the Meuse and to the .'\orth, co\-ering
Brussels and Antwerp.
2. The line of the Meuse protected hy two ri\-ers-the Loison and
the Meuse, which was forty kilometers shorter than the first.
3. A line coyering the German frontier and the western frontier
of Luxembourg, which was seyenty kilometers shorter than the
second line.