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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
A number of unique non-thermal filamentary structures, which are all roughly perpendicular to the galactic plane have been discovered in the vicinity of the Galactic centre (see Yusef-Zadeh 1989 and references there in). On the basis of their uniformity, polarization angles, rigidity, and pressure balance with the surrounding medium, it has been hypothesized that a strong polodial field of milligauss strength pervades the inner 50 pc of the Galaxy (Morris and Yusef-Zadeh 1989 and Morris in this volume). We present here a single wide-field image, at λ90cm, which shows all the filamentary structures in this region and show that these observations are consistent with the above hypothesis.