It is not generally known that Heligoland possesses, the most powerful: of tho world's lighthouses. The tower is 80 feet high, raountod by a lantern which throws ■'beams of 60,000,000 oandle-powcr. On a clear night fcheso flashes CJin bo seen from tho coast,. 35 . miles away. During the war the tower was repeatedly struck by fihellfl from our torpedo boata, but the lantern (md ita Ujjiit tteuajjeU serious I)>'
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 8
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69Untitled Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 8
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