Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1919 — Helgoland. [ARTICLE]

Helgoland.

Helgoland lies in the North sea, 40 gsUeo northwest from the mouth of the Elbe. It consists of a steep, rocky plateau, 184 feet high, wtth a strip of fins sand at its southeasterly foot. Its area is about 128 acres. Kaiser William la said to have expended <50,000,000 od the practical reconstruction of tke island; it is fortified against sea and cannon alike with great granite buttresses 16 feet thick and 240 feet on all sides. Even the fissures in Ito have been filled up and bound tagehwWr with ferro-concrete — thou•anda of ions of it' The little island is wholly Incased with a cemented belt of armor, fortified wtth modern ord* dsnee.