Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-25
HELGOlAND |S
 SAFE AGAINST
 SERIOUS HARM
German Naval Outpost in North Sea Given Severe Test by Big Guns of
 Batteries
ALSACE-L0RRAINE AGAIN

Vt LOitthiiNL HiJHIN
 BERLIN. Ger. June ei.-rears thaf the island Helgoland, Germany's nay ai outpost in the North sea, Ii. ght not survive an Anglo German war but crumble away heneath the eea under the battering Of hos siic ds..; and the raeizing of it's own big guns. have been disproved hv ttfals carried on expressly fer this Duraoss this year.
 Parts of the island, which is n mere rock less than f59 acres in area rising steeply 175 feet aocse the sea. have recently been carried away by the pounding Of North sea temucsfx, necessitating expensive retaining alls, and as the rock of which the island is composed Is largely chalk. usually not oonsiderei very r1siStant. it was thought ildvlsab'a 10 coni1ct extensive exrerimcnts 70 determine whether 1t would stand .he strain 0f . heavy bombardmea..
 The results were favorable. the- rapid firing Of the heavy guns wIth (which Heigoland literally bristies, not affecting the island to an ap0reciab'e extent while the effect O. expiosivD shells against the island, reproduced by firing charges of explosives hung against the ifs. proved very sm;.n
 Another Royal Match.
 Court gossip has selected mother bridegroom for the yodug Princess Victoria Louise. only daughter of he Emperor and Empress, in te h+red- ifaTy Grand Luke Adclph Frederick of Mecklenberg-Strel The grand duke, wko vas 70 this month. is n terms of intimacy with the imperial family and has been a close friead of the princess since her childhood. He was in EBgiand with the emrer- or, empress and the Princess T.eHisR on their recent visit 10 the Brit'sh court and is said to have paid assid- nous court to the princess. TN's ard fho re0nrt that the enre~nr and teYz- press are planning 9 visit to New Strelitz this summer, on which they win be accowranied " the 9-Iree<s, have strsnetreoe1 t'p s--rr-fqe 'or,g entertained in inner Pruss7an oo1rt circles.
 As the only daughter or Germany's cameron. Princes Victoria nrfe. sss
  sihTe rawn fn an irfernat'n0af -'ar- riaee to bind some Hing or future king to the German imrcT'aI Famifv, the young rTincs 0f Wales having been th latest suhiect Of gossi7 in this connection TNe 1ctN~oro1 F1ng Manuel oF Portugal and an Austrian archduke have boen earlier mentioned. but against eurh reports is TOW cited a phrase .or the enperors: 'T won't al low the little one 10 be traded or for rolitical advantages. Let her be hap pY."
 Comment upon the adfournment of the Reichstae on May 3t cenfers chiefly aro~n5 the ratNer strained re- 'atfo7s hotwenn fNe cbarcoIlo-. VYerr von Bethmann-Horweg and the Ger man conservative party, growing out Of their difference over the constitution Tor Rfsaee-T orr inc. his rartE, cortro1rpd in fho main tv fhe old prrrezfan nobility rs- @a~ds the corstftvf'on as humFff9- ti0n for pr~e-fa. -frcc feTer-i ro-rr~il ran never te counted to assist Prs e'a Tn recUrfng r1afcritv. hut they S0 cou~t 'r o@qt 7Vaf7st her.
 T0 rracffoe No~ra~er fi fz 'lntNf~F aTIa tNat prr7rIa sE0ul1 irerr the d'sadvsutare from th's a-ra0rer1ent, -i--0 i- ling o0-crrfz fhp eove-ror oF Alsaoe-T 0-~a inc. end fre latter vi0 novIr4fe fNe rav =-afo's roD-s- =arfative- fn tNe federal co~-oF- .~f fr-'r~ct thc-o sov fo vofo No~o-.Sa- less the conservatives hold the crall- co'7or roe~oDsfh'n Tor ravrng rrt a crave aTront uDon tNe dignifv of rr~seia N~ vroroTing tbfs feature or Inc constitutfon.
 U1re-f-fctsd psVot.
 trofre~ r0fnf fn the ~07st7srf701 awaFerea tSeir stern on0ositf0n. that 0f uiver-ai a~-ra' e-r~~aee -eo -ov- eTnwent had arf~7narv uroDozed to correct f''o ~0~efrFa evils 0f 2 tn0 dem or-atic su~ra~e system hy giving t-e cffiZers aSfitionar votes uroa reacs- i-g certain a~es. but Tn fhe co1rse n fhe coror,ftfeo rro~oHi0gs on fna hiu # was reund ir1rossih7e to get a ma 'o~itv for this arf the gnvornrie-t surrendered ff a0s aecertaE i-sFe-r 2 compiete'v democratic suTrare--0He -ran one ballot, cast in secret acd cast or Srndav the dav oa a hics sba hurnh'esf cftfzen rsn frd time D eo to fhe rnTtS
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