The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1937, Page 10

- The Story of Wisby—Part 11 NOT EXPECTING AN ATTACK AND UN- THE PEACEFUL 4 o |PREPAQED FOR WAR, MERCHANTS OF WI1SBY WERE STRUCK. WITH CONSTERNATION .- -.. ALARAM BELLS RANG, TRUMPETS SOUNDED AND EVERY MAN AND BOY ABLE TO BEAR ARMS RUSHED OUT TO OPPOSE| " { THE DANISH INVADERS .. ............ HAD PROMISED THE MAIDEN OF WISBY HE WOULD RETURN SOON, BUT HE KEPT HIS WORD IN A STARTLING MANNER. ... THAT SAME YEAR (1361 ME CAME BACK WITH A DANISH FLEET, SWOOPING DOWN LIKE A SEA HAWK UPON THE ISLAND OF GOTLAND TO SEIZE \Wi1SBY AND ITS TREA SURES . STANDING IN THE THRONG OF FRIGHT- ENED TOWNSPEOPLE WATCHING THE viICTORIOUS DANES MARCH IN AND TAKE POSSESSION, A FLAXEN-HAIRED, GIRL LOOKED AT THE DREADED Vi AND RECOGNIZED HIM AS THE QUIET "MERCHANT * TO OM SHE GIVEN HER HEART . - AD - On HIS FIRST VISIT TO WISBY, A FEW MONTHS BEFORE, VALDEMAR HAD COME 1O SPY ON THE CITY, UNRECOG- NIZED IN THE DISGUISE OF A FOREIGN MERCHANT. NOwW HE ENTERED WISBY AS A CONQUERING HING ...covcaee THE DEFENDING FORCE WAS QUICKLY CUT TO PIECES, AND THE WEALTHY COMMERC IAL CITY LAY AT THE MERCY OF THE RAIDERS ! VALDEMAR AT ONCE TOOK POSSESSION OF W/ e - i 7 IN THE SAVAGE BATTLE THAT FOLLOWED THE ARMED CITI- ZENS OF WISBY FOUGHT BRAVELY BUT WERE NO MATCH FOR THE WELL-TRAINED VETERANS OF THE DANISH KING INTENT ONLY UPON GAINING THE RICHES OF WISBY, VALDEMAR PROCEEDED TO THE MARKET-PLACE ,WHERE. HE SUMMONED THE WEALTHIEST MERCHANTS AND DEMANDED AN ENORMOUJS =\ RANSOM IN GOLD FOR SPARING THE CITY, SHOCKED AT THE REALIZATION THAT SHE MAD BEEN TRICKED AND DECEINVED BY THIS SPYAND ENEMY OF HER PEOPLE, THE LNHAPPY MAIDEN SCREAMED AND FAINTED. ©. 037, I Cunnowr MANSEIELD . ouLD You WBELIE-\IQ Ir 2 IVAN THE RRIBLE- CONSIDEREP THIS CHURCH HE ERECTED IN Moscow SO BEAUTIFUL THAT HE HAD THE \ ARCHITECTS EYES . ‘ il \ \\\\\\‘\\ HE COULP NEVER § g . DESIGN ANOTHER CHURCH TO EQUAL OR SURPASS IT IN BEAUTY....... / E Twe CHuRCH oF S ST BAasiL,Moscow. MiND YouR Ps anp Qs / THIS FAMILIAR ADMONITION TO BE CAREFUL AND WATCHFUL CAME FROM THE PRINT SHOP. IN TYPE LETTERS ARE REVERSED AND IN SMALL TYPE A CARELESS APPRENTICE MIGHT EASILY MISTAKE A = EXT TO THE "MAYFLOWER | THIS VESSEL , THE "ARABEGLLA’ IS PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SHIP IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, FOR IT CARRIED JOHN WINTHROP ANP THE FIRST P:QlTAN COLONISTS TO BOSTON IN 1630 ..... : ©. 1987, Z.Lannoui MANSEIELD . L eeeeae . 0s0s80 0 e OrunG a TAXI ,1906 B.S. (Berors "STREMM-LINING) /