]" ’ s Administrator’s Notice. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES, CUiRISTIANSTED SUB- JUDICIAL DISTRIST. IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT ES- TATE OF SVEND JOARGENS3EN, DE- CEASED, AND SURVIVING WIDOW ELENOR JOKGENSEN. OTICE is hereby given that A. E. STAKEMANN, Administrator of the above entitled estate, having filed in the District Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States, his final account of the administration of the said estate, the bear'ng of the same has been fixed for SATURDAY THE 3rp DAY OF NOVEMBER A. D. 1923 at 10 »’clock in the forenoon of that dav, at the Office of the Judge of said Court in the Town of Christiansted, Island of St. Croix, and all persons interested in the said estate are hereby notified then and there to appear and show cause, if ary they have, why the said account should not be settled and allowed. Christiansted, St. Croix, September 261 h 1923. A. E. STAKEMANN, Administrator. LOCA"' The . s. "‘Martinique’” from New York is due at Frederiksted at 2 o’clock today. Mails for this town will be forwarded overland and mails for the islands closed MZD D A fine concert was rendered by the Industrial Brass Band on the wharf last evenin. which was enjoyed hv a large gathering. Disappointment was express- «d, hcweaver, as there was no "after tramp.”’ Postmaster R. H. Amphlett Leader is the latest addition to ear-owners, having recently acquired a 1923 model Stude- baker. Mr. Leader learned to handle wotor machines some time prior to arrival of his car but he is never- tneless passing through the rigorous test required by the Police Department and tells ns he may be driving indefinite- ly with Chief Ross who 12 alvo gaining some points, as to Mr. Leader’s ability and other things. ‘The newspapers are the best medium of reaching everybody and for this rea- son we have been asked to call attention to the necessiiy for renewing the right to post offices boxes by Saturday, 29ch. The post office wiil rot send out to col- lect box rent as the regulation directing that a bill be placed in the box and re- Sy elX A VLS ceipted when payment is made is con- sidered sufficient. ‘l'ne post office box is a conveniemee to both the holder and the se-viea and it is desired for this reason that thos» who have boxes retain “hem, while folders must understand t! at this is oniy possible whan payment .3 actu- ally mad> aczreding to lax. Pay up and show yoa are cooperafing to bodst an effort to give good service, TELEGRAMS ST. CROLL STATION. Vancouver, B ~ Sept. 24th. —Canpa- dians have no groun:s for being pessi- mistic, declared Lor Birkenhead, who spoke optimistically: of the futare of Canada at a joint meeting of the mem- bers of the Canadian and Rotary Clubs and of the Board of, Trade here ‘'Realize the greatnessof your owr inheritance’’, he said, ‘‘and the teeming prospects of almost illimitabl2 success’’. Keparations, in view of the vastness of the sumslin- volved, had not heen properly consider- ed by flnanciers, in Lord Birkenhead’s belief. There was only one way in which a madern nation could pay repara- tions of a largd scale and that was out of its excess of exports over imporis. It was vital to Great Britain, independent as she was on export trad: ior her very life, that Germany should b 2 saddied with a ourden of reparations payments, other- wise her competition mizht well bring aboit th» end of the itmpire, he said. * reat Britain and Canada are both sad- dod with enormous war debts. Ne fivan- ced ourselves and then lsvished all ne had on financial assistance to our aliies. We did not count the erst or enquire into their solvency. We only looked at it from tha point of view of their possibie contribution to victory’’, he said. Brussels, Sept. 24th.—The United States navy balloon, A6699, has lan-ded at Hutton, Holland, near the Zutderzee, Lieutenants Lawrence and Leichelderfer, comprising her crew, are safe. Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 23rd. —Gen- eral }Sarazen, former United States golf champion, defeated Waiter Hagen, form- er British open golf ehampion, and brok » the _course record of the Asbury Park golf” and country club yesterday, when he turned in a card of 70 for the final 13 holes of a36 hole exhibition Hagen seored 75, Scores, 18 holes of the morn- ing mateh, were Sarazen 76, Hagen 74. Paris. Sept. 24th. —One of M. Poin- care’s speeches at the bßois Lepretro on eaturday was delivered in froat of the memorial to the dead, erected in the woods whose name was so familiar in the days when the war commuunications often mentioned it. The chief point of his speech was insistence that German sur- vender in the Rubhr must be uncondition- al. ‘‘l'be Germar Government is aware that passive resistance will only last a few weeks more’’, said M. Poincare, “‘vet she is trying to make us pay for the decision which events are foreing on her’’. He refused to be frightened by the searecrows which were being set _up tp scare France inio an understandfng - ith Germany, that Germany will be- come a prey to Bolshevism and will b= transformed into a centre of amarchism, encangering her neighbours. Germany has not yet found her equilibrium, but her traditional qualities for organization have put her ip a position to establish it. In unveiling a war monument at Toul on Sarurday, Premier Poincare as- serted that during the period of 1871 to 1914 there was no real peace, and normal relations between France and Germény were impossible. Franee now has de- termined that Germany shall not revive such a precarious peace, sle must rid herself of old imperialisiic habits, realiz: the wrongs she has done and sincerely re- solve to repair it. Germuany narurally is one of the richest countries in the world. The war has ni seriously affccted her prosperity. The present cr.sis suspends her capacity for payment, without di- minishing it for the future. What Ger- many lacks is not eapacity to pay but the sincere desire to pay. France is spend- ing militons daiiy on Germany’s account and cannot continue ruimous advances, nor interrunt the work of reconsiruction. She has already paid more thun one hun- dred billion in Germany’s sterd and Ger- many wsuld have grown detinitely accus- tomed to this unjust and paradoxical state of affa rs had we not awakened in her a sentiment of defeat. She started the war without provoeation’’, London, Sept. 24th.—1 The ministeriai holidays are at an end and the mombers of the Cabinet this week begin to sacs many important problems, both inter- pationaland domestic. Discussionsanong the various Ministers today and tomorrow will be foliowed on Wednesday by a meeting oi the Cabinei, with regard to which there is much siecuiation, a: it is generally supposed that the sessicn wil! be concerned maiuly w:th the rslations between France and Grea: DBritain over the reparations tangle. The secvet of the meeting of M. Poincare and Mr. Baldwin is a secret stili, buil tue politicad gossips continued to sct forth ~arious versions of what happened in Faris. Therza is an expectation that the Piomier will make a declaration at a public meet- ing he addresses at Northampio. on Thursday. Potential happeninzgs in Ger- many, however, have to be reckoncd wilh and §an announcement may necessarily be withhe!d. The whole problem s re- cognized as being so delicate that, ac- cording to the Dai y Telegraph diplomat- ic experts, ‘‘lt 1s highly doubtful whe. ther any deecision wiil be taken by the Cabinet until the matter has been debat- ed with the Dominion Piremiers at the Imperial Conference which opens in Lot don at the beginning of Oectober.s Among other serious problems the Gov ernment has to dea! wi'h are the increas-