ScHool.
ATTENDANCE
REPORT
No. 20.
Week
Endirg
dar.
11,
1923,
Municipality of St.
Croix.
Per-
Fercent
of
reent of
Pupils
not
Altend-
Sehool
Clats
tardy.
ance.
Peter’s
Rest
Rural
100.00
100 00
La Vallee
Rural
100.60
106.00
iamend
Rural
100.00
99.78
Christiansted
Jr.
High
9429
9929
Frederiksted
Publie
G212
§p7l
Frederiksted
Jr. Hizh
95.66
99.13
Christiansted
Public
9K 05
09%.6)
L.a Princesse
Rural
96,97
97 48
Friedensfeld
Rural
3496
9612
I.OCAL
The Navy Band
gave
one its smart
enn-
certs
in
tne
bandstand
iast
nignt,
A
large
gathering
was present
and applau-
ded tustly.
TULEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIXSTATION.
London,
Jan,
10th.—The
long
talked
of
Agricultural
Party
has
now
been
formally
established.
[lts
sponsers
in-
clu le
Sir
Herbert
Matthews,
Secretary
Cniral
Chambers
of
Agricalture,
Mr.
Caristopher
Tuidor,
well known
expert,
and
Mr.
Sam
Pe»l,
President
National
Union of land
workers.
The program
ne
of
th2
new pariy
incindes
the
secuving
of a
home
markat
for home
prodacts
by
control of imports,
minimum
Hving wige
¢
workers,
enforced
by
act of
Pavia-
ment,
State
assistance
to small
farmers
t»
purchase
their
holdinzs.
The
party
says
it will put
candidates
in
the
fi-ld
naxt
election.
A
new
monthly
paper
ea'led
Rura!
Life
is
to
be
the
parviy’s
QrgEan.
Correcetion:
—ln
Demerara
paragraph
9h read
Brassington,
M.C P.
not
M.C.5.
Weymouth,
bkog,
Ja,
10th.—The
British
sub narine
124
was sent
to
tha
bottomn
oi
the
sea
today
by
the
dJdread-
poight
Resoiution,
with which she
was
in collision.
The
disaster,
which
occue-
ved
off
Portland,
was
similar
to
oue
which happened
rwo years
ago
when
h:
K 5 wassunk.
o far
as
is known,
aill «n
poard
tne
1,-21,
numbering
43,
perishad.
Details
are
sonewhat
m:agce,
but
1t
s:ems
that the Atlantic
Fieet
was
leav-
tog Wevmouth
in varioas
groups
includ-
ing
several
submaripes,
for the
Spring
cruise,
when the
Resolution,
belonging
to
the
Royal
Sovereign
Ciass,
rammed
the
L-24.
whiclhi
was
a mine-layin2
ves-
se)
an i nad
fourteen
live win:s on board.
The
aeccident
oceurred
in
a
fog
when
the
v-s-els had opened
out in the
chan-
nel.
Another
report
says
that
the
cobi-
sion
oceurred
when
a
combined
attack
o1
ine
fleet
was
being
carried
ont
by
submarines
froai Portland,
Portsmouath
and Plymouth.
The L-24
sank
immedi-
ately and
although salvage
vessels
hur-
g
Bl
AN S
ried to th>
spot and
the
whole
area
was
searched
by the mines veeping tlotilla,
no
trace
of the
jli-fated vessel
was
{ound.
There
is a
barg
possibility,
naval
men
sav,
that there
may
bgyg
some
sarvivers
if
the submarine
ean
be
brought
to the
sar-
face.
Depending
upon
how
the
vessel
was struck,
the erew
may
have
been
able
to
close
the
water tight
comparimenfs,
ia
which
ease
they might
survive for
48
hours.,
After the disaster
the Resolution
returned
to Portland
harbour,
where
she
will be examined
by divers
at daybreak,
A
court
of enquiry wili be hzld
on
board
toe
Resolntion
tomorrow,
whaen
alsu
salvage
efforts, interrupted
by darkness,
will ba
resumed.
This
was
not
the only
accident.,
tor
the
submarines
K-2,
and
K-12
alsn
20'tded
near
the same
place,
both
beinzs
shehtly
damaged.
lThe
Ad-
miraity
has
issued
a list
of the
pames
of
those
on h\u.*!
the L.34
\\'hiCh
unfior-
tunately
carrvied
a much larger
crew
than
customarv,
ex
ri
men
being
on
board
for
tratains
purposes.
The
King
has
telecraph
d
a
message
of
coadolevce
and
sympathy
to
the
reiatives
of
the
Crew.
Lisbon,
Jan.
10th
—The
coast
of Port-
ngal
has
been
swept
by
violent
stortis
for the
last
4%
nours
anag
considerable
damacve
is reported.
Mouriainous
seas
Aooded
the
towvns
of Casaes
and Ueiras,
n-ar
Lisboin,
destroying
the
3ea
wall
and
a
oridee.
Oporto
1s
in
darkpess,
tne
theatres
are cioged
and
the
stations
iliwminated
by
torch
light.
Several
steamships
are veported
in collision, and
others
are
stranded.
The ex:essive
rain
fall
has
caused
floods in
many
parts
of
the
couniry
and
telephonic
and
ielegra-
phic communications
are inte rupted.
London,
Jan.
10th.--Th:
work
es
swearimg
in
the
members
of
the
new
Paritament
was comp.eted
todny and
the
Housze
adjourned
uotl next
lue
day,
when
the
ceremony
of
the opzaiag
in
state
will
oceur.
A cabinet
zouncil
was
in session
f{or more
than
two hours;
and
the
speech
from
the
Thron:,
te be
de
livered
at
the
stata
openinz,
was
draft-
cd.
Its terms
were Kepr
seeret,
but it
is
unders
ood
to have
bzeo decided
thac
the
speech
will only
refer
to
the
policy
of
taril¥ pgoiection
as
havinyg
deen
rejoc
ed
by
the
eleciorate.
It will propose,
how-
ever,
to go on
with tne
preference
dut 13
promised
to the British Dominione.
Halifax,
N.
S,
Jan.
Illth.—Halifax.
which
was
the
birthpiace
of the
Canadi-
an
West
Indian
trade,
is again
coming
into
its own.
Yesterday
Messrs.
A, G.
Jjones
apd
company
announced
that they
had received
notice of their appointment
as agents
for the Red D
Line of steamers,
sailing
between
New York,
Port
Rico
Curacao acd
Venezuaela.
'nis
wiil make
five lines of sieamers
rupning from
this
port
to the West Indies and South
Ameri-
cl.
L'he
sweamers
1o the service
are the
Zaiia.
Maracaino
and
Caracas.
Other
cleamers
are
the
Merida,
niladelphia
and Tachira.
‘tncy
are
vein
serew
fuil
powered
first
class
passenger
ships.
At
present
a
schedui»
of sailings
has
not
been
received
by
the agents.
Cambridge,
Mass.
Jan.
10th.—The
most
disiant
object
seen
by
man,
ano-
ther universe
of stars
has
been
discov-
ered
and
measured.
Photographs
made
at the Harvard Observatory
here,
show
thata faint
and
luminous
haze
in the
sky
in
the
consteilation
of
Sagittarius,
the Archer, is ano‘her
universe
like ours,
although
perhaps
smailer.
Announce-
menpt
to this effect
will shortly
be
made
in the bulletion of the Harvard
Observa-
tory by
Dr.
Harlow
Shapley,
director.
It takes light
a
million
years
to
travel
from
the
new
uaniverse
to
earth.,
Dr,
Shapleyv estimates
from his photographs.
So far as
is kpown.
this is the
most
dis-
tant object
ever
seen
by the eye of man.
The
most
distant
stars
and
elusters,
or
nebulae,
in the universe
known
prior
o
this measurement
are only
about
24,0c0
light years
away.
The
new
uuniverse
1s
six quintiliion miles away.
Brest,
Jan.
11th.--The
Italian
*'Tas-
mania’’ foundered
in the heavy
seas
off
the Freneh
coast
diring the storm,
One
of her
siwnall boats
with a number
of
the
crew
was
picked
up,
but
another
boat
containing the cap
ain and remainder
of
the crew,
is said
to
have
drifted
away.
Neweastle,
N.
8.
W.,
Jan.
Ilth,
-
Beverhulme,
interviewed
here, expressed
the epinion that
the
“"White
Australia’™
policy was retardit ¢ the
develepment
of
the
Commonwealh.
He
deelared
that
it was immossible
0 develop
the
north-
ern territory of
A istralia
while
su:h
a
poliey
was maintaied’
Portland,
Eng.
Jan.
11th.—An
object
believed
to
be
the
British
sub
twarine
1.24,
which
met
cisaster
off this
coast
yesterday
in a collision
with
the
dread-
nought
"‘Resolutior,””
bas
been
loecated
off the coast
at
a
depth
of
30 fathoms,
accordinz
to official
heve:
London.
Jan
11lith.—Until
further
in-
vostigation
has
beeo
made
it
1s
impossi-
ble to tell just
how
the
disaster
to
the
L24 occurred.
Howaver,
one of the late
t
reports
says
the
suomarine
rose
beneatu
the ‘2Resoiation’”
and struck
the
latrer’s
bow.
Hope of the crew’s safety
has
not
been
antirely
abandored
yet
nost
ex-
perts
think it will
be
miracvlous
if
the
men are rescued.
Phe
submarine’s
com-
mander
was
a man
sf
great
2xperience
and
there
is
confldence
that
he
would
know
as
well as
any
one,
what to do in
the tragie circumstances.
Athens,
Jan
10th.—Gen.
Daliz, Chair-
man
of
the
Venizelas
Party,
has
beeu
asked
by the Regent
to form
a cabinet.
Athens,
Jan.
11 h. —M. Vernizelos
de-
cided
this morning
to
form
a cabinet
in
which he will. be
Premier
without port-
folio, with
M. Roussos,
Republican
Lib-
eral,
as
Foreign
bWinister,
as
the
only
possible solution
of
the
protracted
Gov-
ernment
Crisis.
.
Auckland, Jan. 10th.—Nagaurahoe
vol-
cano,
one of the
peaks
of the
"‘voleanic