Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-11-06
CONCRETE HOUSE
EXCITES LONDON
HEAVY BUILDINGS OWNED ny
GERMAN FIRM STARTS FUR.
THEIR INVESTIGATION
FEAR DESIGNS OF GERMANY
Would De Convenient Place For
Mounting Great Hpwitzers to
Command the City In
Case oi Invasion

LONDON. Oct g5 JBy MliD
London has been greatly excited by
the report that German-owned mu-
sic-priuting plant in Wiuesden.
prominent manufacturing suburb of
loT don has an immense building
whose heavy concrete foundations
floors and roof Is well adapted 90
the use of siege guns
Twenty of the German employees
oi the firm were taten into custody
and military eXnerts Hre studying the
building carefully Meantime the eN-
cited public Is fully convinced that
the plant was designed 10 act as
German base for attack upon Lon
don proper Tho building unQues-
tionahlv occupies strategic posi-
tiou n stands hilh with clear
range 10 Crystal Palace Willesden
Junction. where two main lines on
tering London center. is but a short
distance from the plant.
However. the English architects
who dcsigned the building and sup
erviscd iis construction eight years
ago say q Is similar 20 many other
printing plants and has no heavier
foundations ANA floors than are re-
quired where heavy machinery Is 20
be- installed
The building is about two hu1d-
red feet square ON the outside and
Is constructed about q court sixty
.toet square n Is but one story and
The fnuldqiIOus are of concrete and
six feet thick The English mana
ger o' the corccrn says this uuusu-
ally thick foundation was laid a.
the firm eNnectcl 10 add additional
stories 10 The plant when business
expanded a concrete roof covers
most Of the building
Discovery hy the Allies that Ger
many has prepared concrete bases
for is hoWitzers surrcptitiously in
many places in Belgium and France
has made an Englishmen suspicious
of nosslhlo German preparations in
England
In discussing the Willesdeu Fac.
tory the sunday Times says In "a
situation Witch commands an almost
uninterrupted view OF that great
trprt of London which lies between
Wil'esdeu and The Crystal Palace is
discovered building whose roo'.
floor and fnU datlon- are construct.
od of exceptionally thick concrete
and might apparently Dee employed
rs 'he omp'aremrut of o. hrav, gun.
In fact. one uf those l7-nch howi'l.
or- 'nr which such careful arrange.
Wnuf- ver" fuu.d io have been
made aroUUl Antwerp and NamUr.
We are very FAR from suggesting
that rho promises at Wlilt-dDu were
Deliberately arranged CnusldcrIug
tho German Norkmeu. o. is at least
probable THAT iu the event of aD at
tack upon London 'ho attention OF
the Germans commanders would
have been called 90 that convenient
concrete floor even if they had not
known of it before their arrival
"It q, highly probable thpt there
do exist such places around London
and in 'h, ncighborhood of our
great fortress positions which have
been carefully prepared for Siege
guns nH1 ffi chief value. to
our mind. 0- tho Willesdeu discovery
,s that o. uay bs expected to stimu-
late authorities to search for them
THE suspicion that W1ur wiro.
loss equipments are operating iu
london Va. Justified hy thn disepy-
erv 70. surH f. plant In 'h' home OF
q German professor 4. Nirp''H aH-
lwratus can br operated for % short
distance o. rom London 90 tbc Eu-
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