Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1920 — SEE BEGINNING OF NEW ERA [ARTICLE]

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People of Hetpdhmd'Wrn Welcome RoGieW of VWtef* to eho Unfortunate Llttfe Toland. The change which dug a huge fortress a hundred feet deep, in the cliffs, covered them with 'gup emplacements and gird l^l them with a labyrinth of walls fifty Yeet thick was a more than doubtftrtflessiMlg/ an* HeigiAdnd must have found.has -transformation Into the moot* notorious* and sinister speck of land-to the world a severerstrata on her 'seal for the fatherland; When the war actually came her fishermen were exiles; for they were one and all shipped* off to the mainland and thedslartdMvas gHenr ever to the gulls and the gunner. < It is now thrown open again, and a beginning has been made with the dismantling of its mighty forts. The inhabitants will cheerfully see the last of the guns, and apparently they would like, too, to be quit of German -taxation; but they hope quite reasonably, that • the island's final disappearance may . be at least delayed by leavings the I great seawalls the Germans built. 4 This might well be done, for Helgoland so long as it lasts will be a lodestar fer the eurieus, and there would be a certain rough ‘justice in the fact of Its people profiting in the future by the world’s interest in its sinister past that has cost them so dear.