Berlin, June 9.
Foreigners will from now onwards no longer be allowed to visit the German North Sea island of Heligoland and will therefore not be carried to the seaside resort by steamers of German companies travelling jo or via Heligoland, states a communication issued yesterday by the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. This measure is based on the fact that Heligoland has been declared a military reserve and comes therefore under the same restrictions as those issued some months ago for districts where the German west frontier fortifications were under construction.
The tiny rocky island of Heligoland, only 0.63 square kilometres in a, dominates the mouths of the Elbe and Weser rivers and thus for Germany has a great naval strategic significance. Germany acquired this island from Britain in 1890 in exchange for a certain territory in East Africa, Heligoland was at once equipped with heavy artillery and later with an artificial submarine and torpedo boat harbour and was very important in the World War. The port and its fortifications had to be destroyed under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty.
Several years ago reconstruction of fortifications was begun and these were inspected by the Fuehrer in the first week of April.
Greater building work is now in progress so that foreigners have to be forbidden access but German holiday-makers may visit the island as heretofore.—Trans-Ocean. issued today the following report on the condition of Canadian Wheat, as of May 31:—
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