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Show BRITISH PREPARE FDR POSSIBLE INVASION Trenches Constructed All About London, 500,000 Soldiers Along Coast By International News Service VEW YORK, Dec 23 -All about Lon don trenches are being constructed to re pel any possible Invasion This work has been in prog-ess for two months, accord Ing to trave ers who arrived here today At first it-aas sa d th s was n erel prac tlce for recruits. This pretense haa now been abandoned. Any traveler by road out of London, and especially by north and northeast can see lines of trenches that woud do credit to eteran troops These extend In an almost unbroken line from Hendon on the northwest through Potter s Bar. across to Epplng forest on tho northeast and thence southward as far aa the Thames Lord Kitchener recently made a per sonal tour of inspection of the po nts on the coast where it Is considered most (Continued on Page Eleven.) BRITISH PREPAOE FOR POSSIBLE HON (Continued from Page One.) i i V" -1 . that the (JTrnans may attenipt a lan'ilnr, Aitoi'th'4'- iJiit :irc ik-w ninb!;zd alo-iL' the c-fia-t from T'ovt to I.hrh p-rro::;rrat-I :,(n'ft men. A laraf parr of thp-p ar- territoriait. inn M t t;np.i-t;i i,t points ai 1 a ri,;ml ?r of r tiincnf ? of : r,'.-s-optd ryulri' troops Ml the ran ca:-' iu- luirbo'-y, inlets and v,-ater"ayp Lliat ha1 e bf-'n !tiincd. A day and mM patrnl r.f htf-;'in yaclifs. motor bcatc-, armed Ktt-ani trawkms and af-roniatif-s is ina i n ! ncd. T!i'.' na 'y 1 ia s provided, some '' t ra vl -rF. ma nr.cd n- n;j vy enm iers. Alloel her thir-r-- a I p nbout 1''-" n nll vs?"l.s. anned and iins :';nd. on this patrol seivif! ho-t ho-t wcn o. fr and is I h. Mativ- of the. east '.-- n t t nt lmv-- bc-n 'onvrted pra-rti-a ! v into mili'arv camps, anrl ftom most of tlifm the civilian population popu-lation has a 1: ead- l:ft. T 1 1 o' hc-s t lie owiisroplr are under orders to be pre-parr-d to !ea"r- at a morrnt's n')Hrr. Tdf ' ' troups are bdlftcd a'. I'dix---tov. in Muff '"-Ik. Similar vondiUons ob-ihiM ob-ihiM in ("romer, in Norfolk. (".".hcaled tranches and barbecl-wire cn-i cn-i lani-'lmentf; ha-.x- been constructed near j the sl-ioro whei'ever the military strate-i strate-i gists bftlieverj there was th'1 slifrhtest cnan-e of tlie Germans a tteinpl in;.: to H a footlicHd. A join; ti,(: idior i.h" patrols of f?mH '"raft ai'f Mjpnlomr-nlKl h c'chit scouts. T'av aral nieht the military riders, reinforced re-inforced by some o',.'" of General Eaden Powell's b'ov scouts, cover the'r beats. |