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1R
YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED,
V. 1. U.
S. A.,
MONDAY.
29tH
DECEMBER
19109.
THE
ST.
CROIX
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CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE
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,
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8.30
THIS EVENING
8.30
|
‘Lhe First 4 Chapters
Os America’s Greatest
Master Serial:
|
I
e
Dbrass bullet
s
!
.
|
This
big Serial
has
a different type of story,
different
action,
different
atmos-
|
phere
in short different to
any serial hitherto
exhibited
in St
Croix,
The Star
in the
'
Seridl
is Miss ,'"HANSEN"’ whose
vorldwide fame
is a guarantee
for
the best
possi-
|
ble
acting.
This Serial is so crowded with terriffic stunts,
thrills and high speed
ac-
;
tion
that “THE BI%'?SS
BULLET’’ has been
a challenge
to all serial
producers,
to
|
produce
one
that cotld
be compared
with it.
Miss “"HANSEN"’ is the
kind of
a Star
f
who always show so'methingn
ew and
fresh,
always something
well done.
l
Each
of your tickets from.the 22nd.and:26th
of December
will
procure
2 tickets
-of half price for this show.
’
i
:
If you want
to select
your
seats
please
order
thew today,
as
Monday might
be
|
too late.
?
ADMIS
S« ON.
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TR«
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ete
;
Chi1dren..................7.7......,..
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2HBH,
Pakes
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TELEGRAMS
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97, CROIX STATION.+
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New
Yok,
Dee.; 21st.—The
United
|
i
States
Army tarnsport
Buferd sailed
be-
f
fore dawn
today t’ithia cargo of anti-com-
|
|
munists
and radicalsipanned
from Ameri-
|
ca for conspiring
against
.the
Govern-
|
ment.
The ship’s
destinatiop.
was
hid-
’
den
in the sealed
orders,
but the 429
pas-
|
sengers
it carried argexpected
toibe land-
|
ed in a far northern port giving access
to
|
|
Soviet Russia.
e
'
!
Geneva,
Dec. 21st.~—A
despaftch
from.
|
* Basle states
that the Ex-German
Emper-
|
|
or has finallv agreed
to: aceept
trial
by
|
l
the
Allies,
but
aaded
'that
he
, wants
|
to choose the place and tme of
the “trial
and desires
to be
defended
by
German
|
experts
and Ewyers.
" The I}g}le
advice
|
says
the Ex-German
Csown
‘Pfince
says
|
he will appear if he
.is
called
before
a
|
Court of Justice.
:
#
Paris,
Dec.
21st.--The
trials of .pergons
|
accused
of war crimes
\’v’gl
‘be
held.
at
|
Paris an&
Lille in 19266
The
court mar-
|
tial at Lille has
issued
numerous
war-
|
rants
against
Germaw#
officers
and
sol-
|
diers,
and
a captain
gnd four
lieutenants
‘
]
have already been imprisoned
in the fort
'
at Lille,
i
|
|
Sherbroke,
Dec. Zlst.—One
of
the
|
l
worst railway tragedies
which
has
ever
|
|
occured in t_hjs‘di'st%;
took place
at 7.15
|
|
on
Saturday gnorning
when
23
persong
|
‘
were killed and
34 injured on
the
Cana-
|
dian
Pacific
Lines
at
Badfish
Siding,
a
|
mile and
a half
west
of
Onawa
Maine.
I
The
passengers’
train
which
collided
|
with a freight train
was a special,
bring-
|
ing steerage
passengers
from the express
|
of France
which
landed
themat st. John,
i
and wag bound
west.
The
engines
tele-
|
scoped.
The passengers
who were burned
|
orinjured are known
to
number
84.
It
|
appears
to have been
due
to men on
the
.
freight train overlocking their
orders
in
.
connection
with
the
express
‘steerage
|
passengers
special,
4
‘
|
Barbados,
Dec.
22nd.
The.S.
S.
Hy-
.
daspes,
a British ship, was
on fire on Sat-
|
urday evening
last
in Carlisle
Bay.
As-
|
sistance
to the ship
was
rendered
by the
|
water department.
,
!
St. Thomas,
Dec. 23rd.—Owing
.o con-
|
« gestion, the Eastern
Telegraph Company
.
and
ifs associated
companies
will
not
..
handle
messages
containing
Christmas
;
. greetings
onlv this
effects
principally
|
Africa,
India
and
other
Far
%astern‘
|
points
where
the romting
in
thé
tariff
l
book
is given as via Eastern
also Brazil
the
latter country may
be
reached
via'
Colon and Christmas
messages
for Brazil,
should be routed
via Colon.
'
Ottawa,
Dec.
21st.—With
the first
of
January
war
time
restrictions
impos-
.
.
[Continued
on jth page.]