LOCAL Eighty-four bags mail {via the s. s. Catherine were received and delivered in this town on Saturday evening, the post office being open until a late hour. Post Office Inspactor Rice was a pas- senger by the Catherine from San Juan having gone to St. Thomas to install a new postmaster who, however, had not arrived, Postmaster R. H. Amphfé’tt Leader sailed by the Catherine yesterday .on a three-week vacation the greater part of which he contemplates spending in Porto Rico. - The s. s. Parima is expected at Fred- eriksted at 8 o'clock tonight having sailed from New York last Tuesday in- stead of the previous Saturday as adver- tised. Bhe has on board 15 passengers, 607 packages and 24 bags of mail for this island. Mails close for the Leeward and Windward Islands, Barbados and Trini- dad at 4 o’clock p. m. today. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. - New York, Oct. 3lst.—lhe Earl-of Birkenhead, sailing heme yesterday on the Mauretania aftera lecture tour of Canada and .the United States, voiced disapproval of the conference of financial experts of reparations, proposed by Sce- retary of State Hughes. ‘‘Poincare will pot admit of fixing any amount of repar- ations by a committee off experts,”’ de- clared Lord Birkenhead, ''insisting up- on the figures as provided by the exist- ing Reparation Commission. He would turn the couference of experts into a debt eollecting agency, without taking into aecount at all Germany’s capacity to pay. I see little value at all in the conference,and think that the whole pro- position would be to make inadequate the services of the United States experts. France, nor anyone else. has ever given e 2 definite figure as to what Germany can pay.”’ Lord Birkenhead expressed great regret at the death of Mr. Bonar Law. **He was one of the most remarkable parliamentary debators | have ever kaown,’”’ he said, ‘‘a clear and lucid speaker, a man of amiable character and for many years a dear friend.”’s Seranton, Pa.,Oect, 31st.—“"The English speaking peoples of this earth can save civilizatioen from doom,’” Mr. David Lloyd George declared in an address here today before a great audience in the State Ar- moury. ‘‘Doyou thinklam using vio lent words,’’ he asked, ‘‘ifyou do, go to Europe to see [Kurope, see conditions, the fear of some impending terror, and if the blow falls it will be such a war as humanity has never conceivel.”’ “The pzople of the United States and Great Britain in acting together to insure ST CROIS A YAI order in the world’’, Iyasserted,"need en- ter into no formal agreement to that end, not by alliarces, but by understand- ing’’,~he said, ‘nut by contracts, but by cooperation. lam opposed to entangling alliances as any man ;n this republic, or in our realm. The two peoples standing together.to bring order curt of chaos, that will achieve the end. Mankind wili .e saved and peace shall reign forever and forever.”’ - Paris, Oct. 31st.—Tke British Govern- ment, through its Ambassador, the Mar- guis of Crewe, has sent two commuriea- tions to the Foreign Office, which was received there as in cowmplete accord with the conciliatory spirit shown by Franee in recent intercomrse between the two countries. The first note drew the Foreign Office’s attention to the judicial consequences which mizht be attended by the separtion of Germany from cer- tain provinces, in that such provinces were not signatories of the Treaty of Versailles and so would not direetiy have assumed obligations laid uper the Reich by.this trea y. It has been re- poitcd that the note contained various statements, including ecritigism of cer- tain measures taken by the French and Belgians in the zones of cecupation, but it can be said that the note is limited to the above declaration, based on the Treaty of Versailies. An.identieal com- mu-ieation was made to the Belgian Government. The second note contain- ed a proposal to the Govt. to send a joint British, French, Italian and Belgian invitation to the United States t> be re- presented co the committe of experts, which will be charged with th2 task of making 2n economic investigation into Germany’s capacity for the payment of reparations and the meansfiGermany possesses to fulfill her obligations. The joint investigation will express thanks to the United States for itsfcollaboraticn and beg the Government to appoint dele- gates through its observer on theilepara- tions Commission. Thus it eanjoe seen that the British nate neither raises ob- jections pors asks \ the Government to specify its intentions, as has been repor:- ed from Londor. M. Puincare did not hive time today to draft replies, but, as apparently not the slightest differences exists between the Government on the questions treated therein, there is rno doubt as to the nature of the replies. With respeet to the Separatists move- ment, the Government’s {view is that no responsibility can be placed on it, or the Relgian Government, as both have ad- hered to the principle of letting the popu- lations concerned act according to their own will. The Government is highly pleased at the participation of a delegate from the United States on the experts commission, but a semi-official state- ment issued tonight, says it will proba- bly demand certain modifications,notably, that the proposed investigation will have to do with Germany’s capacity fer pay- m it, not in a general way, buton he c: acity at the present moment. /London. Oct. 31st.—The ram ruaning iisue between the United States and British Govts. which the United States Ambassador in hist conference with B it- ish officials repeatedly characterised as a dangerous menace to the existing zonl relations of the two eountries, has been practically}isettled. On the occasion of Lis formal farewell visit to the® Foreign Of%ce the retiring Envoy and the For- eign Secretary gave a—~final consideration to the terms of a draft treaty which, it is believed, will clear up the whole gnes- tion. The treaty is undzrstood to meet the United States desire for the right to search suspected rum running vessels beyond the three mile linit, but at the same tim2 the United States gives ito Great Britain