DANISH WEST INDIES
AMERICA VERY PRESSING. Press Association--By Telegraph—Copyright. • Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. COPENHAGEN, August 18. (Received August 19, at 8.50 a.m.)
It is believed that the United States is pressing for the sale of the Danish. West Indies to her because America fears that the islands (St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix) might he ceded by Denmark to some other Power after the 'war.
A high Danish official says that the action of tho United States is decidedly pressing, and he believed that if the- sale ij> not ratified America Trill occupy the island of St. Thomas.^
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Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 6
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100DANISH WEST INDIES Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 6
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