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What shall we do with Heligo- land, the tiny island in the North Sea which presented by us to the Germans-in the nineties, proved a plague to our Navy during the war?

This is a question not easily settled on the spur of the mo ment, writes Viscount Curzon, MP, but three ways of dis- posing of this controversial istand come to my mind.

We could either occupy the place, blow it up, or disarm it and leave it to the control of neutrals.

"It is difficult to know which of these is the best. The safest way, I really believe, would be to blow the place up; but, as such a procedure would involve the ex- £3,000,000, penditure of "over probably the most practicable thing to do is to disarm the stronghold and either make it! neutral territory or place it under the protection of this country.

Heligoland would undoubtedly have been of great value to our Navy if it had been in our posses- sion at the outbreak of war. To Germany the rock proved a great asset in many ways. It served as a cover for the German' light craft when the minefields were being spread, and at the same time helped the enemy to protect with mines a far larger area of water than would otherwise have been the case.

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But for this wide belt of mine- not because of this kind protected water our own light Welt-politik. What is craft would have been able to more, it is the one keep a much closer watch on thing that threatens to bring German ports, our own mine- all 007 achievements to laying craft would have been nanght. Yes, not only to check able to push on much nearer the our advance, but even to put us German coast, and, by doing so, back so far that we may never would have confined still, more May I quote something of albe able to regain the place we the area which the German naval conversation which a neutral hold to-day, to say nothing of the craft were able to use for opera- diplomatist of my acquaintance one we might attain in another ting purposes. had with Herr Heineken, pre-decade of peace. sident of the Nord-Deutscher Then, raising himself in his Lloyd Company, during the chair and peering down across the latter's visit to the Far East to- slopes of the peak to the arcaded wards the end of 1910? So writes squares of the city. Heineken a correspondent of the Times, and cried See here! Do you want to state that it may to know the reason why Germany indicate something of what must has already the best part of the have been the feelings of men trade of Hongkong: why Ger- like Ballin and Heineken when many, if left alone, will ultimately they were forced to support a have the best part of the trade of war which, at its best, could the world? only win something they felt was "I give it up." said Ffinally, constant menace to the world's already almost within their grasp after running his eyes up and peace. A far better domicile for The diplomatist in question down the bay, and from the dock-him could be found on St. whom I will call Fand Herr yard to Kowloon, for

some Helena." Heineken were staying at the minutes without finding anything. Peak Hotel, Hongkong, and, to suggest an answer to the riddle. while they were sitting over coffee, "What is it? Where is it?" and cigars one evening, the "There," replied Heineken, point- diplomatist took the opportunitying to the solid blocks of tall to question the great shipping office buildings in the heart of the magnate about German trade town and along the Bund, he

LORD READING'S SUCCESSOE. prospects in the Far East.

went on to explain:-You sèe

Professor H.A.L. Fisher is the "Colossal, simply colossal, that some of the buildings are

latest to be mentioned was the reply. "Quite beyond dark and deserted, and that in anything I had hoped to find. others the lights are being turned British Ambassador to the United successor to Lord Reading as Will you please take a look at on. Well, then! The lighted ones States, Lord Robert Cecil having this?

And the German took are German and the dark ones been previously reported as pick- from his pocket and unfolded a English.. little publication

The That is the answer.

ed for the place. Mr. Fisher is The Eng Minister of Education in the Daily Consular Reports," publish are at the cricket club see British Cabinet and one of the lished by the American State the lights" coming out on the foremost British scholars.

at Washington veranda and at Happy Valley- lectured at Harvard in 1918 and Department Turning to a report written by You saw them trooping off to is an authority on historical and the American Consul-General at their tennis, or golf or polo, all Hongkong, he pointed to a table the time from three o'clock

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SHIP ZIG-ZAGGING.

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It is not generally known to

In

more

of figures preceded by a paragraph onwards. But in some of the of comment. The table traced] German offices those lights will the growth of German trade from be borning up to nine and ten what a fine art ship-zagging waS year to year, and showed in black o'clock, and even up to twelve brought during the war.. and white that it had now increas-or one on the nights before mail the beginning of the submarine ed to figures rivalling, and in day. That is the answer. We campaign ships captains, mer- some lines even exceeding the Germans are winning the trade chant captains, of course, were corresponding ones in the column of the world because of

only advised to zigzag by the headed Great Britain. Said Herr capacity for, our willingness so, Admiralty. But as the danger Heineken:→→

work, work, work.

became more pressing the value That is the one most significant Heineken punctuated the final of zigzagging properly carried

and thing I have observed on my words with blows upon the arms out, became more. whole Far Eastern tour. To of his chair. After a pause he evident, and finally orders were appreciate fully the weight of it continued:The continuance of issued for certain worked-out you must consider that not only our present rate of progress would zigzags at localities supposed to is Hongkong a British port, but win us everything, if only we be dangerous. The zigzag die- that it is also a port whose prin- could contrive to remain free to turbed the enemy calculation as cipal, almost its only, raison concentrate uur energies upon it to the line of the ship and the $tra was commercial. And Instead of working to that end, rate she was going, and therefore now what do we see? however, it is as though every made torpedoing very difficult! To-day. ** the evidence move of from a certain quarter Finally, from thinking zigzagging of the official figures of were deliberately calculated to an unpleasant Admiralty fad, the representative" of a nation provoke to embroil us with the ships' captains became assidone that specialises in figures, Ger-very Powers whom it would serve in its practice, with excellent many had something like half of every material interest we have results.

its scale. And next year we to remein friendly with. A very shall have more, and still more little more in the brand of Welt- the year after. What do you politik that the Kaiser has think of that?

been launching through the last what were once black-aud-buff

· F----replied :--I think, in the few years and we shall liners and freighters were lying first place, that it seems rather not, we cannot, be left free to so deep in the harbour silt that effectively to dispose of Ger- win on to the goal that is in sight it would have taken a dredger to many's contention that she is not There is, perhaps, an even chance get them out of their slips. The enjoying the "freedom of the certainly got better than that tangle of sagging weed-fringed seas, and in the second place, the great European war mooring cables running over and that it would appear to be a might be a short cut to our com- about them-for all the world remarkable trimite to the success merci supremacy, but the way as -though they jhad things are going now, we take no been meshed, in the web of a Heineken's rage at the mention chances. And if we failed to Gargantuan spider accentuated of the Kaiser's Weit politik gave win the war, we should never the helpless immobility of craft him the excuse for avoiding comve the same clear field again that had once, flaunted the ment on the "freedom of the will understand now why I crossed keys" house-flag of the seas. Welt-politik!" he fairlyet so strongly opposed to an Nord-Deutcher Lloyd, and the shouted, grasping the arms of his Eperial policy which, if not red, white, and black bunting of Jong reclining chair in anger, and radically changed, cannot but the German merchant marine, in he went on The Kaiser's Weltend in wat

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of the Kaiser's Welt-politik.

politik is the worst, almost the I am reminded of the words of Beas. That riverful" of rotting only, menace to the continuance Herr Heineken by a visit to ships was more than quiet it of our commercial triumphs." Wel Bremerhaven. Miles and miles of was dead.

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