Show II GUNS CONCEALED IN DUNES DEFEND COAST Monster Cannon Planted by Germans Near Ostend and Bruges BUDAPEST via London Feb 5 B. B. B Landauer the Hungarian war correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- with the German armies on the western front gives an interesting description of his experiences in Flanders Flanders Flan Flan- anders an- an ders where he was allowed to inspect the foremost German trenches and where he had a short talk with men In Inthe inthe inthe the utmost wing of the German lines a few paces from the seashore He also describes Bruges and Ostend as aswell aswell aswell well as other Belgian towns in German occupation Writing of ot Bruges he says that the people have named their town The City of the Dead and as a matter of ot fact it does look like a dead town for its silent streets re-echo re only the noise of ot German soldiers' soldiers boots the people themselves walk almost noiselessly asit as asif asif if it they would be the spirits of the once gay little place Of Zeebrugge he says that on the beautiful piers which the English built to for the Germans are hard hardat hardat at work with their hydroplanes and submarines the whole seashore is dotted with hidden monster guns commanding commanding commanding com com- manding the sea for miles and miles and should an enemy warship appear within sight hundreds of ot great caliber puns guns uns would be ready to receive it There is not a spot on the whole sea seacoast seacoast seacoast coast as far tar as Nieuport which has not been used for tor def defensive purposes The sands are full of hidden positions with light and heavy batteries The end of the German trenches is not more than twelve paces distant from the French position at Nieuport One does not hear any artillery firing only rifle rine shots and though the enemy is unseen unseen un un- seen the firing filing Is almost continuous j About the German Ostend Mr Landauer Landauer Landauer Lan Lan- dauer writes that it looks very unhappy py and forlorn although in the chief street the all the shops are open and the traffic is unusually great From the Inner part of Ostend I it Is difficult to get to the Digue on 00 the i seashore for tor the side streets are all I blocked by the wooden bathing machines ma ma- chines In th the famous Helder b bar bar- r rifles are stored up and In the Maxim M a as pa pa pa- is sla stationed One Ohe can get to the shore only by passing around the Kur- Kur saal Baal which is transformed into a hospital hos hos- pital now In front of the small Wellington bar five lines lines' of ot wire entanglements stop stol the way and before the Continental p hotel tel an an Immense pile of sandbags gs is stacked tacked From the royal palace to therace therace the tho thorace race course o there ar tr trenches and wire fences The famous Royal Palace hotel ho ho- ho- ho tel tel with its Immense garden looks pitiful pit pitiful pit pit- U and deserted The noncommissioned atoned sione officers' officers school is on the ground floor of the gr great at building and In tn the beautiful home of the Union club there i is a disinfecting institute |