The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914. EVIDENCE IN CONCRETE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914. EVIDENCE IN CONCRETE.

Commenting on the discovery of concrete foundations suitable for gunmounting in German-owned residences near Dunkirk, the special military correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says: The Germans have been trying lately to make out that they have been attacked on all sides by unscrupulous and envious nations, which desire their overthrow on account of their advancement in commerce and culture. The discovery of these concrete foundations in Belgium, where they must have been in existence long before the war was dreamt of, gives the lie to German excuses for going to war, and makes those excuses ludicrously childish and insane. It was noticed in the siege of Maubeuge, just outside of tbo. Belgian border, that a large number of 42-centimetre guns were brought up, and almost immediately began the reduction of the forts., Now, the emplacement of these guns for that purpose takes time, as the foundations must be prepared tor the ratchet and pinion traverse on which they work. The position of these guns was afterwards examined, and the foundations were seen not to he new, but of considerable age, and on inquiries being sot on foot it was found that many acres of ground had been bought up by a merchant or agent in Antwerp, who was acting for Frederick Krupp. The name of the buyer was “Gilbert Martg,” a man known as a landowner or land dealer in Brussels. Krupp started a locomotive factory, and under that cover laid down gun concrete platforms. The ground for that purpose was bought in 1911. The finding of strong concrete foundations dominating important approaches and harbors in England brings out in a lurid light the long and stealthy German preparations for war and for “world domination or perish.” Great Britain having proved herself not so easily deceived, but somewhat “cute”—which, in German eyes, was a very improper thing on her part—is now the subject of Teutonic hate and execration. It was a boast among the military cognoscenti in Germany that they were only fooling Great Britain, and that she was to he courted and flattered continually until the Gormans were ready to wrest her power from her. Germans are simply making themselves the laughing-stock of the world when they attempt to fix their own faults on Great Britain. Their evil intent and their faults are based on vary fn'any “concrete foundations.”