Show THE HE DANISH DANISH W WEST INDIES Thomas Thomas ThomasJ J. J 0 OBrien O'Brien lately American Minister to Denmark and who has now been appointed Emba's to Japan was in London the other day on omit his taY way va to his new post Reference being made to t Nations for the sale of the Danish West Vest Indies Iridies to the theT T 01 he declared the r was baseless he he thinks the sale saJe is permanently off that there is t a w st strong ong sentiment in Denmark that all Danish posses posses- Jl ill in inthe th Western Vestern world should be retained He Ie Iff thinks the chief influence to retain them however however- t. t would be the court and the upper classes J U i Some twenty or twenty venty twenty five years ago our then hen Secretary of State negotiated with the Government i of f Denmark for the purchase of the islands but our ourI ourS I S nate refus or neglected to con confirm rm this sale safe plater negotiations were renewed the bargain was vas but then the King ICing in court declined to ratify I t th the sale In the meantime Germany had haa grown gro n to bo be 1 great seagoing power and it was was said at the time timet t C tl that t it was German influence pressed upon Denmark which caused that country to decline the time sale though the islands do not pa pay current expenses b by byI I When the German v per annum Emperor starts starts y on his career of territorial ial expansion he wants tw two or three of those harbors in the Danish West Vest Indies In In In- dies lies for I supply depots |