Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1918 — Purchase of Danish West Indies. [ARTICLE]

Purchase of Danish West Indies.

Under the terms of the sale whereby the United States bought the Danish West Indies —now called the Virgin islands—from Denmark, it was stipulated that German* vessels in the harbors of the islands should not be commandeered in the event of the United States going to war with Germany.