Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1919 — Would Seem to Be His Right. [ARTICLE]

Would Seem to Be His Right.

A suggestion has been made that if the Brltishliag is to be again unfuriedj above Helgoland, Henry Hedger, verger of the parish at Herne Bay, Kent, Eng., be engaged to -raise the emblem. He it was who hauled down the Union Jack August 9, 1890, when the Island passed into the control of the German empire. He was then a coast guardsman, and is now a vigorous man of between 60 and 70 years. Mrs. Hedger recalls her four years on th? Island chiefly by the birth of their youngest sop, who grew' up to be one of the cunteniptibles, who helped to hinder Prussia’s march through France, but fell in the attempt: Ttie family left the Island the day it was taken out of British conwlth flags and bunting prior to the visit of the kaiser. All the British official population left at the same time.