was involved.
Our people
are sufferiny,
need
in
its varied
form
‘is
to
be
seen
everywhere
Ways
and means
mus.
be
adopted.
wherecby
these
conditions
wiil
be ameliorated.
One
of the duties of our
Delegates
to the [sland
is so
investigate
conditions,
rerort
to
the
League,
who
would
in turn
devise
and
execute
plans
tyr
nelp: our i233
fortunate
cowmpatriots.
Helpful
lectures
awaking thair Sense
of
Duty
to God and
man
was
thougat
ad-
visable
so
that
a
better
understanding
mignt be arrived at
between
all factions.
Believi .g that
we have
made
our
posi-
tion
suficiently clear,
and
thanking
you
Mr. Editor
{or space
aliowed,
v
i
We beg
to remain,
Very respectfully,
e
Publicity Committee
Virgin Island Protective
i.eague
E. A.
ROBERI]S,
&, €. PEDRO,
S. HODGE.
TELEGRAM:S.
ST
SROIX
STATION.
London,
Feb.
24th.--Three
hundred
and forty
thousand
persons
5f the
coun-
try made
fortunes
during
th:
war,
ac-
cording
to
an
inland
revenue
o‘ficial
testi
ying
today.
At
a
meetingof the
House
of
Commons
select
committee
on war fortunes,which
is debating wheth-
er
this
wealth
should
be
especiaily
taxed and
i!
so,
how.
The evidencethus
far given
indicates
that the Committee’s
task be
a most
complex
and difficuit one.
London,
Feby.
24th.—Fhe
Evening
News
says
that
an
English
firm
of
motor car
agents
had
completed
a
deal
with
the
American
Govt.
for
virtually
all the cars
used by the American
Army
o,
the
Rhine.
The
transaction,
the
newspaper
asserts,
involves
between
1,500,000 and 2,000,000
pounds.
London,
: eb.
24th.
Heavylosses have
been
inflicted
by
Freneh
troops
upon
Turkish
irregular
forces
near
Marash
in the vilayet of Aleppo, it was announc-
ed in the
House
of Lords
by Earl
Craw-
fard
today.
General
(ourand
has
sent
important
reinforcements
to the
scene,
which
he
hoped
would
be
sufficiert
to
control the situation.
London,
Feb.
25th.—An
attempt
has
been
made
to
assassinate
Prince
Regent
Alexander
of
Serbia
and
the
Premier,
M. Proiitch,
according
to
a
despatch
from Irieste
to the Giornale
d’ltatia for-
warded
by
the Central News
correspon
dent.
The
despatch
declares
that
both
the Prince
Regent
and the Premier
were
wounded.
1ondon,
Feb. 25th.
-A despatchto the
Evening
News
from
Melbourne,
under
date of
Wednesday,
says
that
Captain
Sir Ross
Smich
has
landed
at the
Point
Cook
Airdrome,
there
concluding
his
flight from
Sydney
to
Melbourne,
the
last stage
of the trip from England.
In
all
Capiain
Smith covered
more
than
thirteen thousand
miies.
=1
BV LN
A LS
Berne,
Keby.
25th.
—~ The
Committee
of
the
Swiss
National
Council
which
has
been
studying
the’ qugstion
of
Switzer-
land’s entry into the ' _eague
of
Nations
yesterday
aporoved
of
the Govt’s. propo-
sal
to withdraw the clause
ot the act
pro-
viding that
Switzerland
should join the
League only when
the
United States
had
entered
it.
The
vote
was
15 to 17.
London, Feby.
25th—In the reeent bye-
election
at Paisley,
which resulted
in the
election
of
Mr. Asquith,
Liberal
14,694
votes.
Mr. J. H. Biggar,
Labour
candi-
date
11,840, Mr. Mackean,
Coalition 8,878,
Extraordin
ry interest
has
been
taken
in the
resuit, especially
in Parliamentary
circles.
Chieago,
Feb.
25th.~——A
new
method
of
diagnosing
typnoid rever,
which
car.
be
performed
in ten minutes
at the bedside,
aroused
Interest
vesterday
among
the
physicians
attending
the meeting
of
the
American
Congress
of International
Med-
icine,
Tie
test was discovered
by Profes-
sor Bass
of ‘the Uriversity
of
New
Ov-
leans.
Dr.
Rass
periormed
a
blood
test
at the bedside
in
ten
minutes.
~ Such'
a
rapid
method
permits
earlier
treatment
and checks
the spread
of the
disease.
|
London.
Feb.
256th.--Workers
at
Pieve
di Soli roek,
italy,
scized
the
municipal
bailding and proclaimed
a
Sovier
Govt.,
according
to
a
Rome despateh.
In
the
fighting
between
th:
workers
and
the |
carabineers
many
were
wounded.
Disor-
ders
have
aisor
occurred
at
Vittorio,
Monte Bellung and
cisewhere.
|
London, jFeb./2bth.—lt
has
also
been
officially stated
in the House
of Commons
that Lord Jellicoe
visicod ludia
to consid-
er the formation
ol an
Indian
Navy and
|
that his report
is under consideration.
|
Cardiff, Wales,
Feb.
25th.—In
view
of
the agitatin
amoi
g
tne
miners
to
use
direct action
to
entorce
their
demands,
much
prominence
is
being
given
to
a
speech
by Mr.
Thomas
Richards,
mem-
ber
~f the
House
of
Commons
and
gen-
oral Secretary
of the
Weish
Miners
Fed-
eration
in
which
he
dcclared
that
the
working
classes
need
a
ialking
to.
The
workers,
he
said,
were
beginning
to
boss
~thé
show
and
1o
boss
every-
|
one,
and
he appealed
to them
to be
care-
|
fulhow
they used
their
power.
Direct
|
action,
he
declared,
is leading the
coun-
|
try to a revolntion.
Mr.
Richards
assert-
ed that the
Rritish
working man
is
the
|
freest subject
of God’s earth
and
to
fol-
|
low th~ direct action,
"‘Wii O the
Wisp”®
|
will ruin him
and
put
progress
back
a
’
hundred
years.
‘
Paris,
Feb.
24th, —Premier
Millerand
|
is hacked solidly by French
opinion wish-
ing Turkey to be kept independent.
|
Ottawa, Feby. 25th.——There
is
no like-
lihood
of a
Govt.
Bill this
session
to
|
amend
the prohibition act of last
session
|
so
as
to require
a two-rhirds majority be-
|
fore action is
taken
on
a provincial
re-
|
ferendum.
Berlin,
Feb.
24th.—Herr
Erzberger,
|
Minister of Finance,
voluntarily resigned
'
from
the
Cabinet
today.
His
resigna-
tion
came
as
the ciimax
to
sensational
testiniony
in
a libel suit
against
the
ex-
Minister of the Treasury.
According
to
the testimony
He r
Erzberger
smuggled
large
amounts
of
his
private
funds
to
Switzerland.
while
previously
the
testi-
mony
had involved him in numerous
ques-
tionable
transactions
in
connection
with
the
isgpance
of import and
export
per-
mits and otherwise
misusing
his
official
position
and
influepce
for
the
further-
ance
of
ventures
in
which
he
was
in-
‘terested,.
London,
Feby.
25th.—Sir
.John
Ander-
son,
Chairman
of
the
Board
of
Inland
Revenue,
told
the
Housc
of
Commons
Committee
on
war
fortunes
yesterday,
that the Govt. could get one billion pounds
from the
proposed
taxation
on
wealth.
No form of
property,
he added.
should
be exempt.
~Washington,
Feb.
25th.-—Mr.
Bain-
bridge
Colby oi
New York.
one of
the
Progressive
Party
under
the late
Presi-
dent
Roonsevelt,
will succeed
Mr.
Lan-
sing as Secretary
of State.
London, Feb.
25th— President
Wilson’s
reply
to
the Aliied Note on the
Adriatic
situation
reached
London
this
morning.
Barbados,
Mavch Ist—The
Members
of
the Committee
of the
Barbados
Citizens
Contingent
entertained
Mr.
Algernon
L. Appinall,
C. 8.
G.,
at
dinner
at
the
Bridgetown
CJu¥
on Saturday
night
last.
Among
the guests
present
were
Mr. H.
F. Previte of the
West
India
Committee
and George
F. Huggins,
O.
B. K.,
Chair-
man of the
Trinidad
Merchants’
Contin-
gent Committee,
NEW
Y ORK. Feb.
28th
1920.
Klour, Blencdad Ciear
St. Lawrence
| rand
pr.
brl. §llb
6
Meal, Kilndried
per
100 bs $3.65
New
Season’s
Pork
per bril. $46.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bhbl.
$41.00
sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
ibs
$10.54.
Sugar---Crystals
minimum
$10.24
Volasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upland,
at
I.iverpool
:
per
b,
30 44--100¢.
wxchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight
$3.34
Exchange
New
York and London,
sight
$3.39
LONDON, Fzb.
28th
1919.
Sugar-lemerara
Crystals duty paid price.
fixed
hy
the Royal Commission
yer ewts
100s. od.
-105s.
bd
Muscovado,
89°/- basis,
floating
terms
-
bond,
Ditto duty free.
90s.
od.—9ss. 0
(German
Beet 837/¢ f.o.b.
no further
¢
during
the
war
White
Java
sugar
cif
U.
Kingd
'
without engagemer
White
Java
Sugar,
cif Uuni
dom if arrives
before
27th
Dr
Denierara
Rum,
per gal. no
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Mid
cwt
1575.
od.
138s. od.
Cotto
Medium Fine Se:
erpool nominal
per lb.