COAST DEFENSE POSITION. This position, south of Hyeres, was centered around an old French underground fortification of masonry construction with a modern, lightly built, concrete pillbox type of emplacement on the extreme tip of the peninsula. This was designed as the firing position for an artillery piece on a railway mount, which could be withdrawn about 200 feet into a slot, some 20 or 30 feet deep, cut into the solid rock. North of the fort were two searchlight positions and flak installations. In a sheltered hollow on the reverse side of the promontory were extensive field fortifications, personnel shelters, and open-type emplacements for field artillery. None of the field gun positions was occupied, however, nor was the elaborate position on the tip of the promontory armed.