GERMANY TO-DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1921, Page 4

GERMANY TO-DAY

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: i':ij'i iliis air irip •fmm iJconufii n I t!;■• holiday island of Watteyi g ! roll nl' sin [M i si's . ! \Vi' slurlt'il .ill' with <>•»«* Ohio :>ii l tints' Wnlllt'll 11:1 ssellfie I's 111 lilt' ..ill'll mill myself behind ll"‘ I" 1 ' I '., tlyino over the I It'll farmlands nil ell 10 sill.' 11 -' Wesei- anti util HI TOSS l lie iiniilil.v i|ineksiimls ul tlie liny no which \\ illieliushan n stands. I'a i 11 1 on tile sen Inn iv.t ill In 100 right Inv I i eiioiiltl nil. Wnngoroog, ..HI desll,,atinn. si,mil mil ahead as too Inst lieml ill tile anther neeklnee ul samibaiiU islnutls stretching along Hie iii'H" st I„.|,i III! W liieli i'.lsl.llle l llll'leis pictured HI The Kill He "I ll'e '-oink ;l ,■ 11al Ccrmnn tfa ns|un t hnse. I ncy i„,;Tt like yellow whales backing awash n, |,lie siinsliine, ami the lew In,.els ami similiter villas upon llietn seem .1 if they might lie siihinciged ally moment w hen the sleeping beast. like I,ml the Sailor’s ’’islaml, smhleiily Wilkes anil ilives. What surprised me was the extent to which this w hole region is st ill Im fil'd. . . . 1 . it si'll I-h"* !:u »ii iue, little ilttne —hristloil with films on 1 loser iltspeel ioll. | S'IW one hat lerv of six loll}' fill" that look like the o.fl’s „nr Army haaml there w ere at hmsl three great . 0 it,eh Ihings in cone.elf emphnemen 'Hi,.it all the way between \\ ilhelmshaveit ami the outer sea were lefts amt batteries with armament intact or > it looked from above. Out ol every embrasure stuck a loan muzzle. Ilm moats surrounding some lofts are s" hie that they are more like wooded islands, each slandiiifi in its little him , than grim defensive works. It is an hour’s flight from busy ISreto the flat sands of Wtuigoroog, where we landed. The city folk ran H>; down for their morning hathe lor I-' ; each way and slid he hack hy H.dO a. 111. 1 We took on hoard five passengers am ~ |„t «,r luggage liesides the pilot and

myself lor illf return journey, with tinresult. 11uit the nniehine would not I'i-e aliove l.tlllilll. tin.l it hud to follow the alone till rotltul I'te hity .‘ill the way h.tt !. instead of euttiirj; straiohl a-.-ru-s, its enoiti ■ fit i lit re tit llitit low l.eiy.ht would otherwise have meant a p;lule down into those horribly .iiuik.v-hiokiii*, halltitle sandbanks below, -.vlticii would ynljan aeroplane ns it Minu s' Mirks up water.