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Show GERMANS PLACE HEAVY GUNS ON BURKUM ISLAND London, Nov. 2. A Central Nows dispatch from, Amsterdam says that Gorman 42 centlmotcr guns havo been pluced on Dorkum Island In tho North sea. Horkuin Island Is tho most southerly south-erly of a. string of Islands that skirt tho German coast from Cuxlmven to tho mouth of tho Ems. These, with soverni Islands owned by tho Netherlands, Nether-lands, constituting tho Frisian group. Tho strategic valtio of Dorkum Island, Is-land, which Is six miles in length nnd two miles wide, lies In tho fact that It commnmls tho estuary of tho Ems and might perhaps bo used ns a sub. marine bnso and also In tho nefense of East Krlslaud, tho district of Prussia Prus-sia which forms tho northwestern corner of Hanover and of tho Gorman Gor-man empire. German submarines rtro known to bo operating along tho southern shores or tho North sea and heavy guns placed on tho German Islands might ho valuable In tho defenso of their base. |