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TUESDAY.
3 ar=JULY,
198
to play
her
part
in
the
d:ience
of the
P.
e fie,
the
present
coniribarion
to
iis
d:ienc2
is
culy
cix
een
pepeo
a
head
compared
with
Australin’s
93
pence,
a
pressing
obligation
remains.
There
13
n)
exeuse
for
Canada
if she
defaults’’,
The *'Sun’’ further dociares
that
the effect
of Mr. Bruce’s
plea
for
a
sirongly voiced
policy
of
the
empire
is
that
Australia
refuses
to
be drayveed
into
the
Empire
wars without the fallest
enquiry
and
the
m st definite
assurinees.
London,
July
26Gih.
—lt is officially an-
nounced
that
Lieut
Colonol
Lesiie
Wilson
M
P.,
Conservative,
S:uth
Portsmouth,
Parliamentdry
secr2tary
to
the
lreasury,
has
peen
appointed
Governor
of Bombay,
in
suceassion
to
Sir (. A. Lloyd, whose
tenure exvires in De2ceanbor
next.
Com-
mander
Eyres-Monseo,”
now Parliament-
ary and ficancini
seeretary
to
tkhe admir
alty,
succeeds
Lieut.
Colonel
Wilson
in
the treasury
Jdepartment
and
Major
A.
B.
Boyd-Carpenter
becomes
f{inancial
sacraetary
to the admiralty.
vondon,
July 25th. —When
introducing
the Colonial Office estimates
in the
House
of
Commons
yes er'ay,
Mr.
Ormsby-
ilore,
Under-secre.ary
{or
the eolonies,
d
clared
in
an
answer
to
a question
that
uie government
would
not
at
present
dis-
close
its attitude
on
the
qucs
wio of m di
fication of
tariff
vreferences.
NMr. Gore
said:
‘The
ma
ter will
be
raised
at
the
Imperial
confereuice
by
Australia
and
un:til
the
views
of
the
dominions
have
been
heard
it
would
be
obvicus folly for
the
Government
to
say
here
and
now
what
they
are
going
to
agree
to
and
otherwise.
This
is
to
be
a conference
of equal
Governments
and
to
bar
and
ciose
the door
now
woeuld
be
resented
by
every
dominion’’.
This
statement
was
orected
by cheers
from
the
Government
side.
‘"Qur administration
of this
trust
must
stand
eventually
before
the
judz-
ment
seat
of histery
and
tnerein
wiil be
judged
as
an
Empire’”
concluded
Mr.
Gore.
Tne motion
to reduce
th: colonial
offica
vote
was
defeated
by
297
to 166
and
the estimates
were
adopted.
Stockholm,
July
£6th.—Dr.
Mullins of
Louisviile,
Keuntucky,
was unatimousiy
elected
today
presilent
of
tihe
DBaptist
Alliance by th2 third congress
of the alli-
ance
in session
here.
New York, July 25th.—The
early
raw
sugar
market
was
easier,
offerings
were
more
liberal and pries
declined
1/16 cent
on
a
sale
of 5,000
bags
of Caba’s
ar
5
3/16 cents,
equal
to 6 97 for centrifugals,
The
more
hberal
offerings
in
the
spot
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them.
TELEGRAMS.
Sf CIIIX SFATION.
New
York,
July
¢s'h.--Commenting
on
the l.ausanne
treaty
the
New
York
Times
this
morning
says
that
on
the
principle
that
peace
is better
than
war,
ene
can
be
glad
the
Lausanne
nezoti-
ations
have
ended
in
the
signinz
of
a
treaty,
bat
that istabout
the only occasi
n
for
rejoicing.
The
treaty
writes
intw
history
the fact
trat
the
great
powvers
were
beaten
by
the
lurks
because
of
their
own
moral
and
inteliectual
short-
comings.
While
the Allies were beaten,
the
Greeks
and Armenians
wiil bave
to
rav
the
biil,
nevertheless,
since
the
powers
entered
into
a ¢Near
East
ai-
rangement,
which really
settles
nothing,
they
will have
to pay
their share
1n due
time,
the
paper
asserts.
‘lhe
Morning
World
deelares
that
“'fine
promises
of
humanitarian
obligaiions
have
again
yiclded
to p-litical
recessiies,
end
the
| urks unaided,
bave again
won
a victory
for
the
wvationalism,
wiich
the
Central
powers
in
a
military
aihance
couid
not
win for their armies’”’.
‘The
World adds:
“It is fitting
trat
saivos
in
Constat.-
tinople
should
celebraie
the
signing
of
the
Lausapne
trealy
and
the
news
{hat
in
1923
Turkey
has
won
a
war
against
the Aliies which
began
in 1914.
ondon, July 26ith.— I'he
Loudon Daily
Telegraph’s
Sydney correspondent
quotes
the Sydney
“Sun’’ as commenting
as
fol-
lows
on
a
speech
by
the Premier,
Mr.
Bruce,
on Tuesday
in which
he
demand
ed for Australia
a greater
part in fram-
-3¢
the
foreign
poiiey
of
the
empire.
“i\ye must
do our
share
in the matter
ot
defence
and
call upon
tae other
domin-
jons to do (neir share.
ls Canada
refuses
No.
175.
m:rx:t
and
the
poor
demand
evidently
discourazed
ho'd
rs
of contracts
in
the
raw
suvar
futures
market,
and
under
lighrt liguidation prices deelined,
showing
a
loss of seven
to eight
points
at midday.
There
was o
change
in
refined
prices
and only a moderate
inquiry was
report-
ed,
{ne granulated
8 36
to 8 75.
Paris,
Jaly
26ih.—The
situation
in
Greece
is deseribed
as of the
gravest
by
the Belgrade
newspapers,
especially
the
Novasti,
says
a
despateh
to
the
Matin
from
the
Serbian
capital.
The
news
from Athens
is scanty,
bat it
is declared
the
Rfecpublican
movement
is
gaining
headway
in the army
and
that
a ministe-
rial erisis
is
1 iminent,
owing to a spht
in
the Veniz:
ist party.
B
>
“
Puolicat
P LOlCaAtion
FROM THE
YOLICE.
HE
public
is
hereby
notified
that
in
the event
of an impending
hurricane,
the following signals
will be
given:—
During the day.
pon
receipt
of
in-
formation
that
a
hur-
cane
is
approaching,
UNE
HURRICANE
FLAG (a red flag with
a
black
square
in
the
centre)
will
be flown.
If this island
is in the
pvath of the hurricane,
IWO HURRICANE
F'LLAGS3,
(one above the
other,
will be flown.
During the night.
Two
rockets
will
be
fired
at
an interwal
of
three minutes
between
the first and
vecond.
The
above
mentioned
signals
will”
be
given
fromthe fortsin Chiis-
tiansted
and
Fred-
eriksted,
as
well
us
from
the
battery
at
Fing’s Hill.
The telephone centrals
will
inform
all
sub-
scribers, (country
ones
first) of the
approach
of a hurricane.
Office
of the Director 2f Police,
Fred-
eriksted,
St. Croix,
V. L U,
8. A. 2rd
July 1923,
F., COULTER,
Director of Police.