Show ENGLAND PREPARES TO DEFEND COAST Specia Cab e to The Tribune LONDON Feb 3S The battered a d orn east coa o rn"land nprotec ed near j wo und ed nnoeents were k ed s now an uib o en 1 ne of mi tary act ty From the n outh of tl e Thames to Hartiepoo no foot of sand is unpa tro led no comn un tj s w thout Its aerial ookouts t Yarmouth av atlon sheds ba e pruns; up 1 ke n shroom The g eat batches of g ass here fishermen for cen tur es ha e pread he nets to dry Is no a Hemps ead Pa s And the e are s a a atlon q ar ers e sewhe e At ghtfa t e reat doors of these sheds sw ng open and no les than two hundred n ach nes r se o er the sea and keep eyes rned and ears pointed in the direction of He lgoland and Cuxha en On shore armj autos and motorcycles speed up and down the coast each ma chine with a egular beat to patrol The coat patro s of ordinary times have been a gmented arid these men tramp the sands for slg t 0 sound of a rcraft Me or a ca n ng anti aircraft guns are s a o ed a se era po nts I saw twenty o these n achlnes apparently lust ou of the facton go ng through Colchester the d e ton of larmouth bandnng am t e country 1 ome of the k ng and queen s exhaustively protected o far as p o e t on against aerial attack poss be T e majest es have been dulged n mim c attacks to ascertain the hance of being h t by the German fljers One da last week a British aviator as ended to a height o fabout one and a half ml es and practiced at dropping sma I bags of flou o represen bon bs on he cas le Fron s he gh w th a strong w nd blow ng and a eapon necessar lj 0h to pre lude a ua damage the near es e x d con e o the castle was wo n e Th s was highly grat fylng to he r males es who to the r ntlmates ha e ade o effor to oncea the r fear of e a r ra ds |