Show SIEGE OF IDBEUGE BEGAN TWDYEARS AGO Concrete Gun Platforms Established in German Owned Factory Spe al Cb e by A rtngetnen wi h London Dii j Te eg aph and Id ernatioaai ws er c Pflb Sept I s no v known a tl e Germans hea y s ege guns begau firing on the forts a Maubeuge w th re markable accuracy ind cat ng perfect know ede of the range as soon as they bad been b ought up and placed n posi tlon It is a so no n now w y he were ab e to do so The 1 ea y cone ete p atfom necessarj to mount t e euns had been in pos t on for more than two ears in a seeming 1 innocent factory about four miles fron he forts This factory w as constructed n the woods of Lann e es whic se eral years ago passed Into the hands of a purchaser who described h mse f as G bert Masty of B ussels The Matin reminds us to day however that it pub shed on July 3 1911 the fo ow ng paragraph 1 The real propr etor of the woods of Lann eres is henceforth Frederick Krupp Th s s atement 1b confirmed today by a paragraph in the Gazette de Co ogne by another in the Co rier de 1 Bourse by recent ci cu ars of the French bank at : Nancy and as y by the Krupp company i se f wh ch announced the com ng in sta at on of a ocomot ve factory on . ground located in the woods of Lan n eres It was ths soi dls ant factory which acted as cover for a sj s em of esp onage I so comp ete that dur ng the bombardment of the fort the enemy was nformed by . an underground te ephone of a 1 that was ( go n. on ins de t e ci y 1 |