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...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...
Christian X, King of Denmark and Iceland, inspected with interest last fortnight at Copenhagen, the first Year Book of Iceland, published at the Icelandic Capital, Reykjavik, and ably edited by Snaebjorn. Jonsson, blond, curly-haired, strapping, virile, industrious Icelandic clerk and translator to the Danish Ministry of Industries...
Iceland, as extensive as Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
Modest, the new Year Book admits that "from an architectural point of view Reykjavik naturally falls behind other European capitals," but calls attention to the Icelandic scenery, admired by many a tourist yearly, and lyrically described by Professor Willard Fiske as follow...
...ambitous young man who has been to Reykjavik...