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Show uu KEEPER OF THE GATES HONORED Man Who Planned Flooding of German Positions Decorated Dec-orated With Order of King Leopold. I Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Dunkirk, Prance, Nov 20 The man who planned the flooding of the German Ger-man positions on the Yser has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold, and is likely to receive some Blmllar recognition from the allies' governments. This man. whose name has not been made public, is the keeper of the great Nleuport sluices which control con-trol the water in the canals and dykes His position gave him an unrivaled knowledge of the possibilities of inundating in-undating the country and he pointed out to the Belgian general staff that by using the railway embankment as ;i dyke aud by breaking the canal bank In certain places, tbey could in-undate in-undate most of the region occupied by the German trenches and advanced gun positions His plan was at once adopted. The i ulverts In the railway embankment were filled with sand and gravel and then the fire of the heavy guns was concentrated on points In the canal banks until it burst and the water spread out over the fieelds. |