S €OAL,
-
The
s.
s. Bolivar is understood
to
have
s istained
some
accident
to her propelior
i1 consequence
of which she
is unable
to
proceed
to destination
2nd
will be towed
t) St. Thomas
for vepair.
Her cargo for
this town will be discharged
in Frederik-
sted.
The
&.s
Parima
arrived at
Frederik-
ated
last night bringing 22 bags
mail for
Christiansted.
She
sailed
scme
time
la-
ter taking the mails
for
the
islands
pre-
viouslv made
up for the Bolivar.
Mr, Eugen
Brady of Est,
Spring
Gar-
den
was accidentally
shot
this
morning
by James
Foroes,
resident
of the
same
Estate.
Mr.
Brady
was
taken
to
the
Municipal
Hospital,
where
he
is
beinyg
attepded
to.— The
West
End
News,
Jan.
237,
PROTESTANT
GROWIH.
The
Evangelical
Union
of Porto Rico
has
just celebrated
at Ponce
the tweily-
fifth anniversary
of
the
opening of the
protestant
work on the island.
The cele-
bratiop
took
the
form of special
meet-
ings
and
a
pageant
depicting
the
pro-
gress
made
during
the
past quarter
bf
a century.
For this oceasion
the follow-
ing figures
were
gathered
rzpresenting
the
present
status
of
the
evangelical
work in Porto Rieo:
Ministers 167, Unordained
workers 115,
Preaching
points 488, Organized churches
199.
Active
members
12,377,
Sunday
schools
373,
Sunday
Schpol
members
24,717,
Societies
129,
Y. P.
S.
members
6,150, Church buildings
179, Other
bumid-
ings 74.
Monev collected
during
1923
$55,221.
Value
of
properly
owned
by
different
Missions $1,798,699,
These
figures
are
based
on
the infar-
mation
supplied
by
the Churches
in the
Evangelical
Union
and
do
not
include
the statistics
of
the Kpiscopal,
Lutheran
and Christian
Alliance Churches.
The estimate
accepted
by
the workers
on the field
1s
that
the
protestant
con-
stituency
of
Povto
Rien
is
twenty
ier
cent
of the population.—Porto
Rico
Pro-
qgress,
12th Jin
;
VIEQUES AREA AS
A NAVAL BASE,
The
Marines
have
taken
Culebra.
That
is the
fiest
step
to the
Winter
Na-
val maneuvers
which
for
the
first
time
in many
years,
if not in
our history,
this
year are ceutering
around
Culebra
with
what
the
Navy
calls
the
Viegues Area
“#8 a concentrativn
place,
:
That
so
many
ships
and
men will be
s
close
to
us
and
that
many
of
them
will visit
the
city
and
island
is
1 oth
In-
teresting
and
important,
but
of
much
greater
sigrificcnce
ie
the fact that tha
st
ok
iz XL
[lnited States
Navy is to be concentrated
in the Vi-ques Area nii
»o much
for this
year’s
war game
but
as parg of
a
plan
to test
this
Arvea
as.
a
ylacé of defense
for the entire
eastern
coast
of the
Uni-
ted
States,
the
Caribbean
and
as
far
South
as
the
Capal.
Properly
speaking
the
Vieques
Area
includes
the
waters
hetween
Porto
Rico
and® the Virgin Is-
lands,
with Culebra pper
as
the
center
of base.
;
There
are
naval
authorities
who
see
possibilities for using
this Area
as
a
pa-
val concentration
point for a ngval
force
tmat
would
have
almost
complete
com-
mand of the
entire
eastern
coast
of the
United States
as well
as
the eastern
end
of the
Canal
Zone.
So
far
their
idess
have been
developed chiefly or paper
but
the
actual
operations
of
the
next
few
months
should
go
a
long
way
toward
proving or isproving the
actual
value of
the Area
as
a haval base,
At the pres:n'
time
the
United
States
has
a naval
bese
at Guantanamo,
Cuba.
Whether
this
is
adequate
or
wueiher
it
iz a proper
place for farther development
are questions
to
be d:termined
in part
at
feast
by this
Winter's=
maneuvers.
Should
Vieques
be
dotermined
upon
as
the
logical
concentration
point
for
the
naval
defense
of
the
long
stretch
of
coast
line
trom
th2
Canal
northward
it
will be of particular significance
for Por-
to Rieo and
the
Virgin Islands
ard
over
a period of vears
would
mean
the devel-
opment
of one of the largest
naval
bases
in tke world.—Ibid.
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIXSTATION.
Londen,
Jan.
21st.--Puassengers
who
left
last
night
on
long
distance
jour-
neys
were
warned.
by the ratlway
ciflel-
-43 that
they might not reach
their desti-
nations
and
most
of the
companies
is-
sued
posters
announcing
a
curtailment
of the services
and
thut
goolds
and
mer-
chandize
could
only
be
handled
at
the
sendars
risk.
Among
the
first
effecis
of the
strike
in
London
was
the
stop-
page
of
the
usual
midnight
trains
to
sScotland,
North
Wales
and other
points
and
econsequent
inability
to despateh
early
editions
of
the
London
merning
pap2vs
by
rail.
The newspapers
man-
avars
had
made
thz2
best
preparations
possible
beforehand
te
meet
this contin-
genecv
and th2
streets
arouad
London’s
newspaper
row
were
liced
with
fleets
of
motors
of all kinds
hired
to
carry
papers
into the country districts.
Londoen,Jan.2lst.—Word
that the Fran-
co- Belgian
Railway
ad ministration
had
issued
orders prohibiting
traffic between
the British and other Allied zwnes in
the
Rhineland,
was
received
here
with
astonishment.
'The
action is
said
to
be
tantamount
o a blockade
of the Cologne
area
and there
is resent./ul
comment
in
some
quarters,
which
says
that
if the
arder
is made
effec’ive
a
very
serious
situation
among
the
Allies
will come
about.
These
critics
interpret
the:re-
ported
order
as
designed
to
frighten
away
the
DBritish from Cologne,
thus
re-
moving the last
obstacle
to the establish-
ment of an
autonomous
Rhir.'and.
Mo
rfficial
statemewnt
has
yet
been
forth-
coming but
it is understood-the
Govern-
ment
has already
ipstructed Lord
Crewe
to
press
France
for an explanation.
New
York,
Jan:
21st.—British
ex-
change
broke sharply
today
as the result
of the railwaymen’s strike,
demard bills
dropping 24 points
to 4.21 1/8, the Jowest
cince
1922,
The
European
exchanges
vielded in sympathy,
franes
dropping
14
points to 4.443,
and Belgian
francs
drop-
ping ¢4 to 4.024.
Athens,
Jan.
21st.—The
Italian Charge
d’Affairs
here notifted the Foreign
Min-
ister
on Saturday
that Italy had decided
to
resume
diplomatic
relations
with
Greece.
-
i1
Athens,
Jan.
21st,—The
Cabinet,
& -+
cording
to the
Athens
papers,
has
d
-
cided
10 leport to the National
Assembly
recommendations
virtually favouring
a
Republic.
The Cabinet,it is asserted,
is
opposed
to 2
Monarchical regime, -which
it holds
is the cause
of all the evils in the
country.
The recemmendations,
the
pa-
pers
say,
wiil be presented
on
Wednes-
-
day.
M. Venizelos announced
his inten-
tion of easting
his
vote fcr a
Repubiic at
the coming referendum.
Lendon,
Jan.
21st.—A
statement
is-
sued
early
this
morning
at
the
head-
quarters
of
the
Associated
Soeicty
of
Locomotive
Engineers
and
Firemen,
which
'ast midmight
called
a
strike
on
the
railways of Great
Britain.
said
the
men
were coming
out
solidly and
stand-
ing
together
splendidly
Press
tele-
grams arriving through the small
hours
of
the day suggested
that the
assertion
was
likely
to
prove
not
far
from
the
truth.
Some
reports
told of union
mem-
bers
who were willingto
continue
work.
Apparently
some
traffic was moved
after
midnight,
but
ia
th:
muain
it
seéemed
the
strike
called would be
obeyed by
a
great
majority
of
the
organizations,
59.000
members.
Attempts
by the
lail-
way companies
to run irains
on restrict-
ed schedules
are being
wartched
anxious-
ly by the publie.
The success
of a hmit-
ed
service
depends
in the first
instance
on
the
loyalty of those
loeomotive
men
who
belong
to
the
National
Union
of Rail.;aymen,
among
whose
320,000
members,
its
is
said,
are
about
20,000
or
30,000
enginemen - Neither
this union
nor the railway clerks
organi-
zation
supporting
the
strike.
If the
locomotive
mnen belonging
to thhe
Nation-
al TTnion obey
the
instructions
of
J. H.
Thomas and other
leaders
toignore
the
strike
some
distnets
of- England
Seot-
land and Wales
witl
not fare
altogether
too
badly.
However
there
were signs
today that
many
enginecrs
and
firemen
in
the
National
Union
of
railwaymen
wou!l
gcoaperate
with
thelr striking «fel-’