Morris tribune., 1912-03-15

business men of Scandinavia have al
most ceased subscribing towards the
capital stock of the proposed Scandi-
navian bank in London. There must
be very good reason why this has
happened.
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The month of February brought the
cold weather to it's elimination point
in Denmark The Danish waters, espe-
cially the sound and the Big and Little
belt, have an ice extension pointing
oceanward the like of which has not
been seen fer thirty years or more.
AS result Of all this cold, snow and
fee traffic has been practically Grip
pied. Traffic on the Aarhus- Kullund.
borg route has been abandoned alto
gether and this is something that has
not happened for many years. The
steamer Fionda is stranded on Thuno
Ron. The Danish torpedo boat Guild
borgsund started about two weeks ago
for Fredrikshaven with orders to
bring food for the inhabitants there,
who were reported starving owing to
the crippled traffic and cold. 1t was
reported from Fredrikshaven recently
that there were 800 families there,
mostly fisher folk, who were without
food and had to be cared for at once.
The direct mail connections between
Copenhagen and Bornholm have been
so crippled that the mail has had to be
sent to Bornholm from Copenhagen
via Malmo and Ystad. The traffic
connections with Copenhagen and the
Islands have all been crippled and some
entirely abandoned. Traffic will con.
tlnue to be in precarious state until
the spring ice foes have passed away.
A recent telegram from Copenhagen
says: Bendix Thostrup, a member Of
the Danish Greenland expedition
which returned recently, has published
an exceedingly interesting and in
structive scientific report regarding
researches conducted by the expedi-
ton along Greenland's eastern and
northern coasts. 1t shows that the old
American Eskimos penetTa Tated the
country as far as the eastern coast OF
Greenland. Many ruins of Eskimo viii
lagos we're found along the route taken
by the expedition, showing that they
must have been traversing the eastern
and northern sections of the island
several hundred years ago. 1t further
proves that the last Eskimo tribe of
which any trace has been made lived
about " degrees north until as late
as 1870. The only Eskimos that were
found now we're those living on the
east coast of the island at Angina
salik. They came originally from the
west coast.
On June 1 another Greenland expe-
dition will start out. The expedition
will start from Copenhagen June and
the expenses of this expedition will be
betrayed by the Carlsberg's fund of
the Danish capital. 1t is expected that
the expedition will return during the
latter part of 1913 Captain P. ].
Koch, who is in command, has made
several trips to the interior of Green
land and knows parts of the island
well. Much interest attaches to the
expedition, which will gather collec-
tions of scientific value, besides max
ing geographical observations of vast
Importance to the National Geographic
society of Copenhagen.
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The Danish Language and Literary
society is the name of new society
which has recently been organized for
the purpose of collecting all of the
ancient and modern works of interest
on the political as we'll as the folk life
of the country, and especially gathef
everything of interest appertaining to
the Danish language.
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Several American syndicates have
entered into competition for the pro-
posed Danish loan of $30,00O,O00.