AT the request
of Lawyer
STAKE-
€
A
MANN
on
behalf of
the Board
of Directors
of
:HE
ST
CRUIX
CLUB will be
offered
for sale at
a
publie
auction
to
be
h-ld
on
the
premises
of the
said
Club
at
No.
59 King Street
in Christiansted,
on
March
19th
1921
at 2 o’clock p. m.
THE
FURNITURE
belonging
to said Club
and consist-
Ing principally of
CHAIRS,
TABLES,
PICTURES,
GLASSWARE
AND ALSO
One
Billard Table
with balls and cues.
Christiansted’s
Vendue-Office,
St. Croix,
March
10th
1921.
WILH. JENSEN.
Fee
Fr.
10.00.
Say
ten
Francs.
)
LOCAL.
'
The
murder
ecase
which
aroused
so
muech
interest
in
the
proceedings
of
the
district
court
was
postponed
yesterday
for April 10th.
The
prisoner
in his
tes-
timony before
the
court
disclaimed
the
responsibility
for the murder
which
was
|
not caused
by the blow
he inflicteds
bnt
by
subsequent
battery
by
Mr.
Martin
he alleges.
The
Midnight Man wound
up in
quite
|
a
pleasing
manner
last
night and
those
|
who
had
been
following
up
this
serial
|
are
sorry it is ended
so
soon.
5
The
8.
S.
Guiana
arrived
in Frederik
sted
at
6
p.
m.
yesterday
and
the mail
|
by her for this end
was
received
at 8.40
|
this morning.
‘
i
The
Vixen presented
a
new
yachtlike
|
appearance
yesterday
when
she
called
a
|
trederiksted,
being
now
vpainted
over in
|
white witn yellow smokestack.
|
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
March 7th.—The negotiations
Sl,
LUI
X
AN
1P
over
the
German
:nde noity
were brok-
en
off
today.
Action
comes
tomorrow
with
the march
of British,
French
&and
*
Belgian
forces
iath
Germany
anl
the
occupation
of a large
seciion
of her
vl
n-
est
manufacturing
country.
KEven
now
the
Allied
troops
are
on
the
move,
for
a late
Rerlin
d»sparch
states
the Krench
troops
who
will occupy
Dusseldori
have
advancad
to
with*x6
miles
of
that
ei-
ty.
The
Allied
uitimatum
was
fore-
closed
apparently
with reluetance
by the
British
Prime
Minister.
The
French
do
not
appear
to ve regretful.
while the Ger
mans
left Lancaster
house,
where
the
con-
ferences
have been
he!
! plainly depressed,
to take
their
train for
home
tomorro
/.
Two long sittings of tae 2oafereace
thresh
out the final breck
before
Marshall
Foen
and Fieldmardal
Wilson
wrote telegrems
.
ordering the commanders
at the
front to
execute
their orders
already
given
tnewm.
Dr Simons,
the
German
foreign
Secty.,
presented
an
alternative
plan
wher2by
Germany
agreed
to
pay
the
annuities
for
the first five years
d:manded
in
thz
Pa-
ris plan
and
also
the
equivaient
of
the
proposed
12% tax
on exports,
but
:ling
to the conditions
for the retention
of
Uo-
per Silesis
and
wide
world
freedom
of
German
trade.
Mr [ loyd George
deliv-
ering judgement for the Allies
said
that
they
deeply
deplored
th®
necessity
of
the deczision
while
Dr
Simons
clung
to
the
last
to the conientiou
that
tne
Paris
demands
were
inpossibie
“or
Germany
to fulfill
The
Allies regard
the
German
course
as strategy
for delay and the latest
plan
as
one
whereby
the
whole
treaty
would have
to be reeonsidered
and
deba-
ted
after
five
years
when
Germany
might hold
a mofe
ravorabie
position.
Dr
Simons
asked
for
further time
in
which
to
consult
the
German
Cabinet.
This
was denied.
The Frenca
army
will f ir-
nish
the bulk of the forces
for
the
new
march
into
Germany.
Great
Britain’s
contribution
in
mza
will
pe
only
large
enough
to show
her
solidarity
with
the
Allies.
[l'he
United States
Govt’s.
acti-
tude
towards
tne
ne.s
enterprise
is
awaited
with
interest.
[l'he
w<eneral
feeling
in Great
Britain
appears
to
be
one
of relief
without
enthusiasm.
[he
Prime
Minister explained
the position
to
the
Hous2
tonignt
in
which
there
was
no
note of jubilation.
The
wmajority
of
British
newspapers
have
taken
the
line
that
the most
imporiant
point
involve|
is
that
the
Allies should
stand
togetner
while
the
Frenca
press
has
voiced
irs
fears
that
Mr.
Lloyd
George
miznt
desert
France.
All recognize
that if .M.
Briand
returned
to
Paris
bearing
the
burden of a concession
to
Germany
his
Premiership
was
doomed.
Mr.
Lloyd
George
in
his
speech
announcing
that
the German
progosals
were
not aceepia-
ble said,
‘“‘we all
deeply deplore
having
to
come
(o
this
uaecision
in the
inter-
est
of the
peace
of the
worid,
and
de-
spite
the fact
that
our
action
is
liable
to a good deal of misapprehension
in our
own countries
we have
made
an effor:
to
secure
a batter
und2rsianding
anl
it
is
not for lack
ot effort and
discretion
chat
we have
now to announce
on behalf of the
Allies
this
failure
to come
to anything
like
an approximate
understanding
with
Germany’’.
Explaining
why
the
latest
proposals
cre
inadequate,
Mr.
Lloyd
eorge
said
it
vas
esseatial
in the inter-
est
of foe
peace
of the
world tha:
there
shouid
be
a
definite
sattien'nt
of
ouat
standing
questions
batwaen
the
Allies
and Germany.
Germanv,
the Allies and
-
neutrais
urged
it
“‘thatis
an
appeal
o
common
sens2’’
he continued,
‘it is
per
tectly
true
that
the
exparts,
failing
to
come
(0 any
agreement,
made
some
sno
gestions
about
(rying
to
acree
for
5
years,
but
tha
was
not
a
plan
whieh
was adopted
by any conference
of states
men.
We
want
each
of
us
to
know
where
we s‘ood’’.
The
Prime
Minister
poirted
out that
Dr. Simons
aceaptance
of .
Paris
proposals
for
syears
was
apparent,
not
real.
it
was
subjzet
to
conditions
which
might
make
it
uncer-
tain and
which might
terminate
in a few
years.
It
was
subject
tu
the
plebiscite
in
Upper®
Silesia.
if
the
plebiscite
were
adverse
to
Germany,
he
would
be
justified
in
saying
‘“‘Germany
is
deprived
of
territory
upon
which
she
depended
to
pay
(hose
annuities
and
therefore
the
agreement
made
at
wofdon
is
at
an
end.
Mr.
Lioyd
George
continued
"‘the
German
propo-
sals
are perfectly
vague.
There
is
noth
ing the Allies, especially
those
who want
te raise
money
tor repairing
their
ravayg
ed countries,
could raise
one
paper
franc
upon,
let alone
a gold mark.
Lne
propo-
sal
that
Germany
should
pay
annuities
for
5years
not
out
of
revenue,
but
by
means of a loan.
is disquieting.
She
is
thereby morigaging her
income
for
the
years
that
come
after,
ian
order
fto
pay
the annuities
o
the
firsc
5.
There
are
certain
sigaificant
sentences
us2d
by
Dr.
Simons
which
show
rthat
Germany
has
not yet
taced
her problem.’’
The
Prime
Mimster spoke
of the
erormous
sacrifices
it would
“be
necessary
for
Germany
(o
make
in order
to pay
the annuities
of the
first
5
years,
and
added
Upper
S!lesia’.
ils torn from
the
side
of
Germany,
the
latter
wiil have
a
population
whicn
will
be
ten million of Great
Britain, includine
Ireland.
This
year
we
haye
a
million
unemploved
as
a
direct
result
of
the
war,
but
we
have
to
find
away
for
beéying
our
debt
charges
and
pen-
sions
and
disability
allowanes,
five
hundred
million
sterling.
If
Ger-
many
carries
out this year
the Paris
pro-
posals
she
will have
to find
one
hundred
and twenty
million sterling,
one
fourth
the
sum
Great Britain alone
has
to
find.
France,
in addition
to
war ‘charges
and
for pensions,
has
to
find
twelve
billion
-
franes for repairing her devastated
areas.
Germany
therefore will have t 5 find
this
year
one ninth of what
France
has
tofind
and we are
told that the effort
Germany