Christiansted,
29th May.
Dear Mr. Editor,
Can
you,
or anybody else,
for that
matter, explain by what rhyme or reason
the entrance
to the District Court is kept
open
when
the
court
is
not
in session,
but closed
and pad-iocked
when
the court
is trying cases
in
which
the
public may
be interested.
A painted
sign-board
placed
over the
most logical entrance
to
the
court-room
reads
thus:
‘'Entrance
District
Court’’.
This is as it should
be,
but
this
entrance
is also used
as
a garage
for the Despateh-
ing Secretary’s
car and
as the housing of
this car
seems
to be of
more
importance
than the
use of this passage-way
by th=
sublie
as the
entrance
to
the court,
the
gate
is ordered
locked
prior
to and dur-
ing the sessions
the pubiic being
obliged
to
seek
entrance
to
the
court
through
various
other channels.
In my mind this procedure
is irregular
and
not
conducive
to
urder,
thevefore
either of the two thirys
should
be done:—-
remove
the
sign-board.
placing
it
over
such
an entrance
as
will be available
as
an
entrance
when
the
court is in session,
or provide
some
other
and
more
suitable
garage
for the car in question,
It would
be interestirg
to know if the
Hon.
Judge
of
the
Distriet
Court
was
aware
of the
fact
that,
the
official
en-
trunce
to his Court
was
ordered
locked
on
Monday 28th
inst.
before
and
while
Lis enurt
was
in open
session,
Yours truly
H. BERG.
MOVIE FANS!!
Look i~
Look !
Look !
Are
you
interested
in
seeing
a
Real
Horse
Race
on the sereen?
Then
go and
see
Douglas
Me Lean
in
''The
Home
Qrreteh’”
at St. Mary’s Movies this
even-
ing.
Qee
also the
Metropolitan
Race
Track
with its tinsel and glamor,—its
ilainbow
of Silken-clad
Jockeys.
See
the
jockey
Johnny
Hardwick—-
born
on
the track—nursed
in its
wisdem
Johnny
always remembered
his
father’s
ist word *'Son [ am dying all [
have
to
leave
you
is
‘‘Honey Blossom’
if
you
handle
him
right
he
will surely
make
you
a fortune” Don’t
tniss
this
picture
you can only see
it once.
Next week
you will have
the
g¢reatest
sup
in your life, the
tilm King,
Queen,
and Joker
is coming off, make
sure
you
cee (his picture,—Communicated.
Yesterday
afternoon
a
fire
of
great
intensity took place at Est.
Whim,
burn-
iz par:s
of Campo
Rico,
and
Hannah’s
Rest,
several
squatters
plant
cane
were
puent.
Mr.
George
Morton
is
said
to
have
suffered
the
greatest
loss.
The
ofigination
is
nnknown. —The
Agricul-
tural News,
May 25:h.
ST UL
A YLD
News has
been received
from Copenha~
gen
tl@t
former
Governor
Konow
has
been
rated
to
vice
Admiral.—The
St.
Thomas Bullztin, May 2/th.
TELEGRAMS.
81 CROIX STATION.
Ottawa,
May 24th.—Immigration
duor-
ing
April
totalled
9,500,
or
44
percent
higher
than
in
April
of the
previous
year.
British immigration
number
4,671
in
comparison
with
2,043 in Apeil
1922,
immlgration from the United
States
2,140
compared
with 3,268 in April of last
year.
Paris,
May 24th.— M. Poincare
and his
colleagues
in the
Cabinet
today
sabmit-
ted their resignations
t» President
Miller-
and,
but
the
president
declined
to
ac-
cept
them.
'The
action of the
ministers
was
the
outcome
of
the
refusal of
the
Senate
to proceed
with the trial of Mareel
Cachin
and
other
communists
charged
with alleged
acts against
the
French
Re-
public.
M. Poincare
informed.
the
corres-
pondents
that
he interpreted
the
vote in
the Sepate
as proof of want
of confidence
in
tue
Cabinet,
which
made
it
impos-
sible for tha Ministry to
act against
com-
munist
plots.
The
Ministry remains
in
oflice, President
Millerand
holdinz
that
the
vote of the Senate
was
purely juridi-
cal
and without
political effeet.
Imme-
diatcly after the meeting
of
the
senate,
M. Poincore
called
a enuncil of ministers.
A brief discussion
took
plac2,
and
then
the Premier
#nd
his
colleagues
proceed-
ed
to
the
Lklysee.Palace
to
place
their
resignations
in
the
hands
of the Presi.
dent.
The
Senate,
sitting
as
a
high
court in seeret
session,
voted
relative
to
the trial of communists
on
the following
points.
1.
Can
the
court
declare
itself
competent
or
incompetent.
2.
Shouid
the question
of competency
be
referred
to a committee.
3.
Isthe
court
compe-
tent.
The
Senate
voted
in the affirma-
tive on the first question and
in
the
neg-
ative
on
the last
two
questions,
the {inal
vote being
148
to
104.
After
the
voie
was
taken
the high
court
formulated
its
decision
in substance.
‘'‘The
matter
be
fore the court
is
not of a
nature
reserved
for its examination,
hence
it
is
not
ne-
cessary
ior
the court
to proceed
with the
hearing.
The
cuses
against
Cachin
and
the others
should
taerefore
be
sent
be-
fore
a competent
body for decision.
Paris,
May 24to.—The
rapid
inecrease
in the cost of
living o the Rubr
district
and
an anticipated
turther
drop
in
the
value
of
the
German
mark
may
make
necessary
the
issuance
of
the
special
currency
which
the
occupation
Allies
have
had
in view
{or the Ruur
and
the
Rhineland,
it
was
said
at
the
Foreign
Office.
France
and
Belgivm have agreed
on
the
principal
details
of
the
issue,
which
2an be put
out on
short
notice
if
it
becomes
necessary.
The
new
money
will approach
as nearly
as
possible
the
present
German
money.
itis
said,
but
whether
the
value of the
mark
will
bhe
chosen
as the
unit of value
remains
to
be decided.
In uany
case
France
and
Bel-
gium
will wait until
the secarcity
of
cur-
rency
makes
the issue absolutely
neces-
sary, before resorting
to it.
London,
May
25t..—The
King held
a
privy
council
at Buckingham
Falace
this
morning.
He also formally received
Mr.
Stanley
Baldwin who kissed
the
hands
of
the
Scvereign
on
his
appointient
as
Prime
Miuisier
and
first
lLord
of
the
Treasury.
Berlin, May 25th.-—Special
despatehes
from the Ruhv
this morning report
that
work
has ceased
in all the
Ruhr
mines.
The correspondents
assume
that
a
gener-
al
strike of the miners
Las
been
deciared
in sympathy
with the Dortmund
strikers.
Moscow,
May
25th. —Fifteen
persons,
all of them
Frinces,
Geverals
and
Noble-
men,
have
been
executed
as
a result
of
the discovery
of an active
counter revolu-
tionary
piot
1n
the
Soviet
republic
of
Georgia,
says
a
despatch
from
Tiflis
to
the
Pravda
tcday.
The
names
of
those
executed
are
not
given,
but
Icls
said
all
were
active
participants
in
'he
uove-
ment,
Shanghai,
Mav 25th,—Panic
seized
the
bandits
ot
FPaetzuku
yesterday
as
Chi-
nese
Government
troops launched
a deter-
mined
advance
azainst
the outlaws
in an
effort
to oreak
up their
coinmunieations
and
force
an
mternational
problem
in-
volving
the
Kiduapping
of
{forcigners
from
tite Shanghat-Peking
exmress.
The
Peking
Gevernment’s
plan
(o relieve
the
captives
by foree, apparently
is
to be
put
into
operativa
at
once.
The
cordon
of
troops
about
the
FPaetzuku
stronghold
was tightened
in all directions
yesterday
Duabiin,
May 25:0.—F0r
the first
time
ia
several
months,
President
Cosgrave
will
appear
at
an outdoor
meeting
next
Sunday,
when
with Professor
John
Mac
Neill,
Miaster
of kducation,
he will
ad-
dress
a political gathering
at
Kilkenny.
Mr. Cosgrave’s
decizion
to be
j.resent
is
regarded
as
a
striking yindication
of
the
Government’s
contidence
tiat lreland
is
returning
o
normal
conditions.
A
baud
of Irreguiars
was
enplured
yesierday
1n
West
hieland.
A largze
quantity
of arms
ammuniiion,
and expiosives
wer2
seized.
New
York,
May 26th.—The
iiner
Ho-
merice,
wiiei arrived
yesterday,
brought
$0,465,000
in
go!d
from
England.
Os
tols amount
£0.600,000
was consigned
to
J.
P
Morgan and
Company,
ror the Brit-
-Ish
Government
account,
London,
May
25th.
Admiral
DBrock,
commanding
the
Mediterranean
[Fieet,
leaves
the Malta base
today
on
bis flag-
scip
enreute
tor
the
Dardanelles.
A
flotilla
of destroyers
will
toliow
womor-
row.
Tnois
1s the latest
deveiopment
in
the ureek
Turkish crisis,
Muswapha
Ke-
mail
bas
arrived
at
Tchataldja,
wlere
=bout
00,000
Moslems
are
concentrated
behind
the famous
foriifications
reauy
w
fight if the
Greeks
cross
the
Maritza
river
an?
attempt
to
march
throuzh
Thiuce.