HELIGOLAND.
STRIPPING ITS £35,000,000 FORTIFICATIONS.
Heligoland, the German fortress in the North Ser, is fast disappearing, and the Heligoland of 1800, the year in which Great Britain exchanged the island for rights 011 the East African coast, is reappearing. .
The change has been brought about by the Inter-Allied Naval and Military Mission which, under the Peace Treaty, is charged with the domoDilition of the military and naval works on the island. During the 2S years the Germans were in possession they fortified it at a cost of £35,000,000. Artificial cliffs were constructed and the area, of the Island was increased by dredging the Elbe (at the mouth of which'.it stands) and depositing the the material oil Heligoland. Great .gun emplacements were constructed, harbours were made for war-craft, and i later airship sheds were built, Now they have all gone. Ihe great 12in. guns have been cut lip into sections like round cheeses, the emplacements destroyed by pick and powder, and the harbour works and the aircraft stations are being dismantled, and it is all being done by German labour, under the superintendence of Allied officers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1920, Page 9
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185HELIGOLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1920, Page 9
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