HELIGOLAND.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 14 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

HELIGOLAND.

A STORY OF NEUTRAL WATERS. The speck of red sandstone standing up out of the. North Sea, some forty miles from the mouth of the Elbe, which wo know as Heligoland—it is only about half the size of Hyde Park —13 having more history made in its waters in months just now than in all the long centuries of its existence put together. How the dead and gone Heligolandera would rub their eyes and stare could they behold the modern vessels of war and see how we conduct a naval campaign in the twentieth century. Uno- ntful as has been the record of the is! ;ad down the ages of history the.-is just one page in its ftnnals which challenges comparison with the experience it has been going through since August last. Once before, for one brief moment, it rose into supreme importance and entered into the arena of international politics. This was in 1864, when the Schleswig-Holstein cjue.stlon was approaching an acute stage, and an Au.stro-Prussian force had invaded T)an-