=2ll. Ul L J A VIS i ee e e ee e ee- —n e = CHRISTIANSTED THEA TRE &.15. THIS EVENING & 'ls €€ 99 EDDIE POLO iN “King of Circus” The success madz by Eddie Polo in kis previous serial of cireus Life is duplicated by this new produetion. ““KingOs The Circus’’ has the fine lure of big taps, with elepha ts, camels, horses and all the glitter of real circus in evidence. ' Cast EAE B i es i e . . BRI Jameg_Gray_ cosisivangihicskae; eenaeber been e viewene LN PNG Mary Warr?n............ chil L s .Ig] ‘eria Beveridge. OLION WIRICES. ... ~.0 . iioio i savuvonmihisrandtverinn, SR FONN S Eddie King, whose Father had originaily owned the circus, is .formed by an old half-witted rfellow that James Gray has tricked his sir= out of the wnership and was responsible forth 2 clder Klpg’s d2a:h; 4dlie det:rm'nes to brinz ¢ )out a sola‘tion of the mystery and soon finds himse!f in a s~ries of elashes with Gray. 6 REELS 6 REELS 6 REELS Order your tizkets in tima if you want t> follow up this Serial fror the beginning as many tizkets has alre:dy been ordered in advance. Played in St. Thomas forfull houses throughout the whole Serial. : ADMISSION CATETe T L e e s e e LB Le . e e eke e RlOB Children 152, and 10e. ‘ freely. Christ has said, ““The laborer is worthy of his hire.”” If we don’t get it here in money I’m sure we shall gei it in the astral Kingdom, yet even beie we are compensated by the joy we ex- periegce in giving joy to others. ltis ? our mission. Let more of us be muvsical ! missionaries and some day Christ will | say, '‘Thou hath been faithful over | few things I will meke thee rulcrover | many.’’ We may bere menticn that the Native Brass Band has always been ever willing to assist at-Church services, Sunday Schools’ Picnics. Processions of Sacred and secular nature, entertainments efc., and very often without the hope of com- pensation (free service). We say forge ahead beys and keep the flow of music steadily before us. Keep up that spirit of unity and gocdwill among you. Show that the old saying ‘‘that nothing lasts .1 St. Croix’”’ does NOT apply to the Na- | tive Brass Band.--Omnia cum Deo.—Com I May 15, 1922. [ e—— —— ———— e—— i | TELEGRAMS. 1 ST. CROIX STATION. [ Philadelphia, May 9th. An exjedition | for the purpose of salvaging the"Lusi | tania’’ and other ships which have gone | to the bottom of the ocean in the last few years, will start from this city on the twenty fifth inst, the steamship *blake- ly’’ having been chartered for the pur- I : pose by the Lusitania Zalvage Company. Kagoshima,Japan May 9ih The Prince of Wales today completed his official visit to Japan and sailed for Manila on the ““Renown”’. } Winnipeg. May 9th. Seventy five l i thousand acre~ of Manitoba’s finest wheat i lands are threatened by the flocd waters | of the Assiniboine river, between this city and Portage-La-"rairie, and already one ihousand acres have been inundated. Farmers are busy trying to sa‘eguard their land with protecting dykes at Pop- far Point, about forty miles west of this city where the river is fifteen feet above normal. The lowlands are flooded for an area of firty square miles, four feet deep. l Farmhouses are surrouanded, with the tamilies liviag in the upper stories, ard twenty thcusand seeded acres are under water in this area, where there will be a | total crop failure. The flood is six miles . wide and three feet deep at another point | where both sides of the river has given | away. { Londen, May 9th In the House of | | Commons Mr. Chamberlain, in reply to a | | question as to whether in view of the | | mischief caused by the publication by the t | *‘Times’’ and ‘'Daily Mail”’ of Mr Lloyd | | George’s eonversation with 1. Barrhou i last Saturday, the Government contem- | pizted the suppression of. thoyse journals, | said, 'l do not think the kind of action suggested is best eateulated to place those newsp. "eir proper positior be- fore pui utside of this roun- try. We. vhat they st= ,d for and what & f the me ves by which they ar. avd. Genoa, May i..h. 1. is re orted that the Russian reply is mo' ~* .yielding than was exne~_ d. The char .e, it is believed, .~ .c to instructions re .eived last night from Moscow denardirg the allied recog- nition of the validity ¢ the principle of nationalizaiicn. It is said the repiy re- cuests that clause seven of the memo- randune, - ealing with the question of private property. shall te referrel to an international committee of experts, on which Russia shall be r presented, and, with regard to the wa' debts, that ‘he allies are asked to st te the exzct dis- count that will be mac-, if the debts are acknowledged. It is also stated that the Russians insist on a ecredit of one bil- lion dollors. Or the whole the So- viet reply is besieved to be evasive, In a statement made this morning to the Associated Press, be ore anything definite was ".'nown concerning the Rus- sian reply, the French delegation an- rnounced that the attitude of Franze on the matter of foreign property would probably remain firte, whatever attitude Belgium might eventually assume. The actual delivery of ‘ke Russian reply to the Al- lied memor: ndum was postponed today, at the last n amect, after a eonversation between M. fcrhiicherin and*"Signor Schanzer, at which it was deeided that the coswer- © the Russians would | ave to undergo - cmve translation. M. Tehit- cherin vetu ned (o night te Santa Mar- gherita to «Husult with the other Soviet delegates, t _refore the reply cannot be presented ua il tomorrow. The ract the* l the delay is due to M. Tehifcherin’s visit to Signor Schanzer is regarded os a fa- vouiable o/nen. Genca, May 10th., M. Tchiteherin and Kiassin irrived here this movning from Santa Margherita, but they did not bring a copyof the Russian reply tfo the allicd memorandum, which they szid was not _ finizked, but that it probably wouid be compieted and delivered to Sigror Facta, Fresident of the ennferenca, lute this af- | ternoon. Southampton, May 10th. Thousands witnessed the departure todazy of tie White Star Lines newfiftysix thoussnd tons steamers ‘‘Majestic’’, the worlds lurgest liner, on her voyage to New York. che develoved a speed of nearly twenty- five Kuiuts an hour on her trial trip and is expected 1o make a speedy trip on her | first Atdantie evossing., ] Paris, May 10th. The German repiy | tothe note ~tf the Allies concerning re- -1 parations, was received tonight. It de- | clares the goacdwill of the German Govt, i but picads the material impossibility of i imposing the necessary increase in tax- | ation before May 3lst, or of complying wiih all the conditions laid down in the Allied note of March 21st.