2 JULY 1932, Page 7

Denmark Buys British Denmark, consistently attacked by Lord Beavcrbrook's papers

for selling to this country and not buying from it, has a little confounded its critics this week by buying a £2,000,000 bridge from a British firm. That covers the price of quite a quantity of butter and eggs. The order for the bridge, which will be the longest in the world, linking a Danish island with the mainland, is still pro- visional, in the sense that some details remain to be settled, and the contract has, therefore, not yet been signed, but there is little doubt about the transaction going through. While local labour will to some extent be employed all the steel will be British. The Danish Government's action is an earnest of its desire to establish as close commercial relations as possible with Great Britain.