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Show KING OF DENMARK RATIFIES TREATY Three West Indian Islands to Pass Under the American Flag in January. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 22, via London, 6:14 p. m. King Christian, in the cabinet cab-inet council today, ratified the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. This follows the passage by both houses of the Danish parliament" of the bill iot the ratification of the treaty. The exchange of the ratification instruments instru-ments will take place m Wash'tagton, probably towards the end of January. The Danish ratification will be dispatched dis-patched nn the steamer Helig Olav, the j first liner which leaves Copenhagen fori New York, sailing on January 11. |