NOTICE. James Alexander Pickering would like to know the whereabouts of his brother Alphonso Pickering. He is a son of Susanna Flint and Irnest Pickering. Last address was Cape Haiti. Quebec Steamship Co. THE S. S. GUIANA is expeeted to P:ave New York on the 24th inst. and is due at Frederiksted on or about the 30th inst. ROB'T. L.MERWIN & CO. INC., Agents. .OCAL The s. s. ""Guiana’’ will sail from New York on the 2ith inst. The s. s. “'Parima’ arrived at Frederik- sted vesterday afternoon bringing 30 hags mail for this town which were dis- tributed last night. Mr Svendsen has entered the lumber business and is offering pitch pine at 6¢ a foot; see ad. There will be sereened at the Christian- sted Theatre tonight a 7 reel drama en- titled "'The Virgin of Stamboul’’ featur- ing the noted movie star Priscilla Dean. See synopsis of this picture in ad on first page. As per advertisement issued yester- day it will be noted that an excursion trip by schooner Vigilant from Christian- sted to St. Thomas and back will be made at 11 p. m. Saturday, 19th, at rate of $2 50 for the round trip. There will be horse races in St. Thomas on Whit Monday which will probably be a wel- come pastime for the tourists. See Capt. Mgiler for arrangement of passage. Correspondence Dear Mr. Editer. You come out strong yesterday eh wid yo naval stile in *‘Ofiicial notes’. [ had tink I was reeding Adams Times when I start, den [ say you must be pick up a page of the wireless log dat blow out a the station and say to meself you better look out you dont get yeurself in trouble. Watl et to no from yo article is that some gentieman dat bin attend- ing to sivil Government going now and some m< dey eome. | also get to no dat some dey wife is come wid them & some dey chiid. [ also see dat some marine dey come. 1 see dir. Gafoney and Mr. Rapo- lec nawme wenshun dem | no something =T 11 B V1 . about but dey other dem I dont from Adams and wondah wha yvo call dem name . foratall, de dash, zero, forty-five anc soon ' | aint understand at all and not if yo rite ' all the rest of yo life bo.t dash and for- ty-five I aint underscana ‘or 1 aint naval ' and aint had no naval training. 1 ask a man who no bout such things and he . sav better you had tell us, if yo no, who - dey goin aprint in the counsel and such f things as effect this island in a land- ' lubber stile if yo rite for landlubbers. I . glad to hear hout the May Henderson | but wa bont de Marina and de mails dem. f Tanks ' ’ Yours IGNARAMUS. ; TYLEGRAMS. | ST. CROIX STATION. } Moscow, May 12th. —The Snviet Gov- , ernment does ot desire a break with i Great Britain Jand is willing to confer | with that country, but it cannot accept | such an ultimatum as that contained in i Lord Cuirzon s recent note. saildd M. Gan- | etsky, deputy rninister of foreign affairs | 1n a speech delivered at 2 meeting here . today. The meeting passed a resolution 1 protesting against the British note and | declaving that Russia is ready, if neces- |, sary, to meet with Jarmed force any na- tion which endeavours to infringe upon its independence, ‘ New York, May 12th,—The Chamber of commerce ofjthe United States, con- cluding business sessions of irs annual convention yesterday, endorsed entry of this country into the world court and ad- | vocated increasiny Ly two percent the | nninigratlon quotas, ‘ Lausanne, May 12th.—7 The Vorosky ' tragedy nas acted as a warning to the | delegates to the Near East Conference | that the conference is dragging out too | long and that the delay is paving the way | for new complications, ins:ead of tending ‘ toward peace. The aonounced coming i to Lausanne of M. Alexander, the Greek | Foreion Minister of Forerzan Aifairs, in i aday or two to serve notice on tine con- ‘ ference that it iaust get along with its . work, or Greece will make a separate ‘ neace with Turkey, has acted as a stimu- { lant and the word has gone forth that ' the esperts-committee must be ready to ! veport early next week. Kverybody | geems nervous and desirous that the con- | ference finish its work before a political ! catastrophe foilows last night’s erime. ,f Deal, May 12th.—Roger Wethered is | the new Britisir amateur goif champion. ' He won the title by defeating Robert ' Harris in the final of the championship | tournament here today, seven up aad six | to play. : ; New York, May 12th.—Mr. George . Harvey, United States Awmbassador to ! (GGreat Britain declared upon his arrival | hera yesterday that he knew nothing " about revorts that he had resigned or placned to vesign in order to directa campaign for the renomination and re- olectiop of President Harding. Os course I expeet to resign some day,”’ he said “‘every ambassador to the court of St. James with one exeeption has resigned and he died, but when I wiil resign, I dont know.’”’ Asked for comment on the resolution recently adopted by the New York and Massachusett’s legislatures, calling for his return on the ground that he was pro-British, Mr. Har- vey said, As far as my pro-British sentiments are concerned, I am an Ameriean but I am not a ‘‘damn fool.™ (‘onditions in Great Britain the Ambassa- dor said, are improving rapilly, the econ- omie situa'ion is much better and credit hzs been re—established as a result of the adjustment of the war dept to the United Staes, Uremployment is decreasing at the rate of 20,000 a week and there are only 1,200,000 unemployed in England. Muoscow, May 13th'—Hope that a break between Russia and Great Britain might be nverted through toe Russian reply is exrrossed in Moscow. Those wono have seen the pote pronounce it conciliatory and declared that everything derends on London. The note was puat onth2 wires this morning and should be in the hands of the British Cabin=t tonight. [t is under stood unetficially that while expressing firmly that Rassia cannot accept the Brit- ish ultimatun, veveriheloss it explains in courteous lanzuaxe some of the Britisn charges, asserting that a misinterpreta tion has been put on the propaganda in the East and proffers a conferenca to set- tle points relative to the seizure of traw- lers and other Weinstein notes. The British and Polish Missions, which ave loca'ted in the same street, are guarded by troops, but there has been no atiack of any kind. London, May 13th.—Comme:ting on the reported conclusion of arrangements for the purchase of a building in Water- -00 place, Pall Mall, at the price of ap- proximately $4,709,000, 1o house the Canadian otfices in iondop, the West- minster Gazotte says these premises will give the Canadian Govercment a splendid home on one of the most central sites in London. Washington, May 13th.—State Dept. advices vyesterday, from the Urnited States legisiation at Peking, said it wus beiieved the foreigners still held by the Chinese bandits in Shantung numbered 14 men and two women. T'eking, May 15th.—The Pekinzx Govt, announces that its delegates reachied termis at iLipn-uhing on Saturday night with the bun