Show 0 U 11 k ril i I 1 ir rl vo i 1 11 4 L canal in copenhagen W 1110 viking scudding studding scud ding about lit in their little willing to plunder pretta well veil controlled eti at a aen aen centuries ago tn in the course of amr scud dings they hey founded on the lie not north h oust of tile island of lii i baturo imd had provi provided deil it protected litolf luoin mr town which they called 11 or imer tibor chillios clini chil its lits it leaven find f Is 19 now known to tin the world as cit of denmark I 1 tle r he lishia done tit nt this liner dpn c insisted ons Isted largely in ili those days of 0 receiving stolen treasures front from the big blond erg alid ail providing the sell rovers in return with etli laeal for their drinning drInI Ing horns tile tho traders mid and eventually began to mid some outlet beyond their own country for their increasing stocks and thus alius C op grew to commercial importance so go much so go in fact that it became one of tile influential members of oc the lie league and it rival rhul or brenton lubeck and th ehg P north sen sea and battle ports in he thirty year war sir germany was ivas torn tind plundered and en ell took a f spurt attend of its ghorman rivals king christian 1 IV recognizing Denni arks opportunity promoted arilde in 1620 lie built on one of the water wilys which cut into tile the city a 11 hoysic and that hat striking many gabled structure turo ifill Is used ns as a stock ex cl cliance dini iange iKO it Is 8 of red tapestry brick and Is hy by a spire f formed hy by the twisting fo ether gether ropelike rop ellke of tile bodies of four krent great copper dragons this spire green with the verdigris of centuries may be seen on clear days fir far out over the Ore sund that sop cep nates crates Dom denmark nitric from sweden germans got the trade but lit in later inter days the lia danish banish trad ti aders lost sonic some of fits of eric tho lied and old christian chrisitan Chri silan while tile north b became became more and more the merchants merchant of the battle baltic and the borth son sea then came tho the theft by russin of and later the digging of tha th kiel copenhagen became nn an easy g ing city of oc at glorious past while the sl ships ps from tile seven seas anchored at I 1 hamburg fin iburg or bremen the world war wa however gave copenhagen pen hagen fingen another opportunity tind no now w the he old merchants 11 haven a ven hopes ngali to take mercantile sen sea honors front from the castle bonner banner of hamburg Ile regarding gardIng Copen hagens aspirations aspiration albert n r writing lit in the ne new w york times says 4 tho the war made copenhagen it clearing house for Eurs pc al the capital tilt nl of ono one of the most important Vuro penn countries it it pollyl cia center of great significance chinng ed cil conditions brought prosperity antul a new anid 8 of business men control tho the financier supplanted the producer financial was nn even cn before the war sound iler her methods for foi mobilizing mobil ising lier her credits had long apen accepted by tho the financial world vord old blinks and new banks cattle came into ex it Is r reported ported that lint deposits grew arrew to niti almost lost four times their imp war amount insurance records oc old denmark were verp shattered I 1 in 11 a manner trint never lind had been t thought ll 11 0 aught possible for become the alio place in which amerlean Amer lenn and F Kuro u coppon penn companies placed their a business which nod and once go gone 0 o tip fo the lie central powers on the heels of this increased finan flann clel power caino it positive assertion of initiative on oil tile the part of the lie danish busi business hess mail worldwide trailing trading or came into being lielas and co became the fio home ap of them the of which wh h were chiefly in coun countries trIeR tit at war with vl ill germany among thesa Is tho the coin company pany n which was sus started d in ili to compile anfor regarding foreign forel Kii and to invest capital in firms engaged in foreign trade ts organization hnz so go far succeeded jn in loc lating itself ft etli seventeen con importing and exporting another important organ Is 19 the general commercial company ltd atil started tit in 1017 which differs from the file transatlantic company only in that it t Is concerned chiefly with russia Ilus slit and south america though increased financial power and strong commercial organizations tree free from german influence are arc sources of strong assurance to the danish arnd er yet the ho free port has haft been the fou foundation of the confidence upon which they have placed their hopes thet confidence in frej freit poi t has not been lesse by the 0 ant warnings that thal SiN sweden reden and will oot not stand with folded arms while denmark attempts to gain supremacy an in the trade again and again the warning earning Is made that lint malmo and go in ili sweden and hewn and tn in norway nonny tire planning free lull hill lioi i the dane knows known that more dallis of bandl it ill wit will bo to needed to linin llo the lie enormous resulting yet he be Is well ell amerl of tile the fact chilt the lie p of either cither malmo or 01 Is s not no a in favorable P RI pi i that of not wayn tin ild not loom sure for bergen mill and ln bo clacel til necil in ili the file same legory cit avith Got gothenberg gothenburg henburg or adalino A free port 25 years tim the port of liis has been freo freh for ihan kor for it period of years it was ni tint not improved but during the ali war nr change h avo been lande hindi ani a n i real ral level t lins in taken place it ling lias been estima Wd that more than litis lias hew spent alm its cap nelty reported to ile IB tins lins imen pronounced ni its in for the which copen loi cn hagen may inny expect till condition however may lip fp easily cnally overcome over conic since the free port fieldg north ot 0 the alio city Is nt at a point where it 4 inny ho be enlarged to twice tecc its present lr lt capacity the free port Is a institution lon and 14 in close connection with vm the danish customs cn department in filet it li 14 nn an agency of that hint doport ment like nit nil etli other r free ports it offers certain advantages to tit tin foreign goods floods may inny be stored in ili its fix buildings fret of duty for tiny any length of atine thus the hip privilege 14 to tho the baltic distributor of having it convenient storehouse for foghis his goods boods inny accumulate it 11 lack ason whon hafl demand he becomes comes heny the HIP trader Is 14 in a position to incel the wants of ills bin customers till lin ined lately the llie cargoes of ocean RO go ing vessels inny ho be at copen bagen and distributed list lit in file baltic re eglons glons by the smaller sin aller steamers enil at the lie loss less important baltic ports thesis cheso would return to copen linken aingell with tile the exports of tile the baltic regions which would forin the return cargo of tile ocellia ves tile tho convenience which lie copen open lingen free port the foreign manufacturer Is not confined nil in 0 o flit be billi tic territory terr Kory alone for ColAti lingen inny well take alnio alii o forrill for all fill europe As tit at one tittle time so copenhagen Is now A torn terminus ilmis for many ships calling tit t nil all ports of the ho horld and european ports irence it otters offers the he saine servi servace lve hat lini hamburg ild did I 1 in former years that Is quick and client cheap of boods afen han tile the demand Is 14 heavy to 0 o all important Import nn lir Hair ports |