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Show FLOWERS HID WAR ENGINES. Eastern Coast Was Ready for Attack By Expected Hun Invaders. New York. Huge mortars standing on concrete emplacements and abundantly abund-antly supplied with hnlf-ton projectiles, projec-tiles, were erected during the war among the flowers and -shrubbery of private gardens in New York City and elsewhere along the Atlantic const, ready to repel the attacks of German naval or airships, Maximilian Toch, one of the first American camoufleurs, told the New York section of the American Chemical society on Friday. Mr. Toch described how honeysuckle, honey-suckle, morning glory and ivy, as well as paints, had been employed to con-' ceal or lower the visibility of coast fortifications. |