Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-12
LONDON EXCITED BY
 DISCOVERY OF GUN
 FORT FOR GERMANS
Concrete Building in Which ArtI- leTy to Sweep the City Could Be Stationed Has Been Found in a Nearby Suburb.

LONDON. Nov. 11.-London has been greatly excited by the report that a German owned music-printing plant in Willesden, a prominent man. ufacturing suburb of London. has an immense building whose heavy con crete foundations, floors and roof as well adapted to the use of siege guns.
 Twenty of the German employees of the firm were taken into custody ana military experts are studying the building carefully. Meantime the ex- cited public is fully convinced that the plant was designed to act as German base for attack upon London proper. The building unQuestionably occupies a strategic position It stands high with a clear range to Crys- tai Palace. Willesden Junction. where two main lines entering Lon don center, is but a short distance from the plant
 However the English architects who designed the building and super vised its construction eight years ago say it is similar to any other print ing plants and has no heavier foun. dations and floors than are required where heavy machinery is to be in- stalled.
 The building is about two hundred feet square on the outside and is con structed about court sixty feet square. It is but one story and the foundations are of concrete and six feet thick The English manager Of the concern says this unusually thick foundation was laid as the firm ex- pected to add additional stories to the plant hen bushes sexpanded. A concrete roof covers most of the building
 Discovery by the allies that Ger many has prepared concrete bases for its howitzers surreptitiously in many places in Belgium an France has made all Engfishmen suspicious of possible German preparations in Eng land.
 In discussing the Willesden facto- Try the Sunday Times says:
 "In a situation which commands an almost uninterrupted view Of great tract of London which lies between Willesden and the Crystal Palace is discovered a building whose roof. floor and foundations are constructed of exceptionally thick concrete and might apparently be employed as the emplacemeni of a heavy gun. in fact. a heavy 17-inch howitzer for which such careful arrangements were found to have been made around Antwerp and Namur We are very far from suggesting that the premises at Will lesden were deliberately arranged. Considering the German worllmen, it is at least probable that in the event of an attack upon London the atten- ton of the Germans commanders would have been called to that con venient concrete floor even if they had not know of it before their ar rival
 Tt is highly probable that there do exist such places around London and in the neighborhood of our great fort ress position which have been care fully prepare for siege guns, and the chief value, 10 our mind of the Wn- lesden discovery is that it may be ex- pected to stimulate authorities to search for them.
 "The suspicion that many wireless equipments are operating in London as justified by the discovery Of such plant in the home of a German pro lessor. As wireless apparatus can Dc operated for so short a distance as from London 10 the European coast without an outside tower the discoy- cry of illicit wireless stations is very difficult The Times advocates that the War Office isse statement stip. ulating that persons found shetoring such apparatus will be treated as spies and handed over to military power'