GERMANY'S COAST: LINE DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2890, 30 September 1916, Page 11

GERMANY'S COAST: LINE DEFENCE

■ - —♦ — Some remarkable facts are given in an article by -Mr. J. il. de Beaufort in the • "Quarterly Keview" on Uis visit to Germany last year, iu whiclrhe ntaiiageu to get much confidential information. . • He describes, a visit to ,the. berman 'Admiralty, where ho saw, tor the nrst time, a six inch to the. mile man of Kosvth Harbour, as well as maps ot all our dockyards and estuaries, wit", another of England's coast very carefully done. Subsequently lie visited the principal defences 011 tlie North Sea and made a trip up the Kiel C&nal.i - Air. de Beaufort expresses the-opinion that tlipre is not another defence system in the world that can be compared with Germany's 200 mile coastline on the North Sea; and a map marked with the forts "find batteries lie knows of—'and I have by 110 nutans discovered them all , he adds—proves his assertion. Naturo has (lone much for Germany here; science and art have done much more. "Every unit of the entire system/every harbour, dockyard, fort,' battery; nay, I believe, almost wery single gun is • connected with the others by a strategical railway, and,' in a smaller degree,, by a system of canals. The heart and brains "of this great'web are at Kiel. Nor does the fleet lie inactive at Kiel."There aro over 800 daily newspapers in Franco. Alcohol makes people more, suscoptiblo to cold. '