29 JULY 1916, Page 3

Denmark has provisionally agreed to sell to the. United States

for £5,000,000 the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, in the West Indies. The formal consent of both the Danish and American Parliaments is still necessary. The New York cor spondent of the Times reminds us that the United States offered £800,000 in 1901. The islands will be most valuable to the United States as a naval base for the protection of the Canal zone.