RII
P
News
received
here
yesterday
announ-
cing
the
Death
of
The
Most
Revd.
Mgr.
P. Schelfhaut,
C.S.S.R
Bishop
of
Roscau,
and
Bishop of this
Diocese.
’
May his Soul rest
in peace.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
5-24-21.
OCAL.
The circus
Company
gave
iis last
show
last night and
immediately prepared
for
the
move
to
Frederiksted
where
they
will play tonight.
Crenle
saiied
for St.
Thomas
at
6
p.
m.
yesterday
taking
the
mail
for
St.
Tho-
mas,
Porto Rico and
the States.
Patrons
of the movies
are
remin
lad of
*
the
show
this evening.
See
ad.
in
this
llssue.
iELEGR
1« MS.
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ST. CROIX STATION.
New
York,
May
16th.—The
emer-
gency tariff bill
having
been
referred
to
the conference
committee,
it
is
now
but
a
question
of
date
when it will be
put into effect for
a period of six months.
Many
in
the
trade
are
inclined
to the
belief
that
the
con‘erence
committee
will reportit back
promptiy- with
little
if any
ehange,
those,
if
made
being
the
anti-dumping
and
foreign
valua-
tion
clauses,
on
which
alone
is
there
any
cleavage
between
the
House
and
.
Senate.
It appeared
to be
eneral
opin-
-
ion
cmong
sugar
people
that
the
new
tariff will
be
in
effect
the
end
of this
week.
Much interest
has
been
aroused
by
rumours
that
the
opposition of'very
corsiderable
number
of
Cuban planters
to the
functioning
of
the
committee
is
takink a form that may
result
in official
action.
‘There
is
said
to
be
on fout in
-
the island
a
movement
to this end.
All
by influential
people that is viewed
sym-
pathetically .in
high
official quarters.
One report is that if a
certain
number
of
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of
planters.
who are opposed
to
a
continuance
of
the committee,
can
be
secured
to
a
petition
for its dissslu-
tion,
it
is
not
unlikely to induce Presi-
Menocal
to
dissolve
it.
Paris,
May
19th.--The
declarations
i
made
regarding
Poland
and
Cilesia
by
‘
Mr.
Lloyd
George
yesterday,
caused
|
considerable
irritation
to
French
news-
i
papers.
There
was
little
comment
on
.
the Premier’s
words
this
morning,
{but
.
what
there
was
seemed
severe,
‘‘Perti-
¢
pax,’’ the
political editor
of the “‘Echo
'
de Par’s,”
regarding
the
statemeni
of
|
Me
lLiogd
George.
‘'‘Please
give
us
even
less,
if possible,
than
you
did in
|
the
last
speech
before
the
"House
of
;
Commons.
The
affair
is
too
grave,
'
henceforth,
to
be
treated
as
politics.
.
There
is
no getting
away
from one fact,
-
the
Entente
cordigle
is at stake’”,
Paris,
May
19th.
France
insis's
upon
' ~the
execution
of
the
Versailles [reaty,
"
in
drawing
the
frontier
line
between
Germany
and
Poand
in
Upper Silesia.
.
M.
Briand
declared
last night,
upon
re-
ceiving
newspapar
coriespondents.
He
reiterated
statements
he made
to news-
|
bvaper
men
last Saturday,
when
answer-
.
ing the addvess
of
Mr. Lloyd George
be-
|
fore
the
Hovse
of Commons
on Friday,
|
he
declared
that
invasion
of Silesia by
-
German
troops
would
not
be
tolerated
|
by the
Frenen.
M.
Briand
said
-he
did
.
not
see
the
disirability of
meeting
My,
.
Lloyd George
before
all
the
documents
.
relating
to
the
Selesian
plebiscite
had
been
received
from the
inter allied com-
.
mussion
at
Oppeln.
"'l too
want
to
see
|
- the
Treaty
ecarried
out.”
He
said
to
~
the correspondents
of
the London
Daily
|
Mail.
<But
thewe
is
nothing
in
the
.
ireaty whieb
stipulates
that all the
rich
.
~
mining
districts
in
Silesia
must
go
(o
.
the Germans,
while
the
Poles
wijll get
|
what is left.
Ido not
wish
to
enter
ipn-
|
to
any
controversy
with
Mr.
Lloyd
|
George,
and
Istand
by
whatI said
to
you
correspondents
last
Saturday.’’
-
When
the Chamber
of Deputies
recon-
.
vened
today,
after
a
r:cess
of
three
.
weeks,
the
Briand
Cabinet
was
ex-
'
pected
to be
the centre
of the
concerted
attack.
London,
May
19th.—Newspapers
of
this
city
,showed
greater
unaminity
in
endorsing’
Mr.
Lloyd-George’s
declara-
tion
of
the
British
attitude
towards
Poland
and Silesia
made
yesterday
than
they did his almost sensationai
statement
before
the
House of
Commons
last Fri-
day.
There
were
in
some
instances
reference
to the
judiciousness
of reiter-
ating Great Britain’s
view-point
at
this
moment regarding2 goint already
made
sufficiently
clear.
The
"*‘Morning Post”’
was
alone
in
dissenting
from
the Pre-
mier’s
declarations,
and
in
editorial
bearing
the
caption
“‘Smashing
the
Entente’’,
the newspaper
maintained
jts
antagonism
against
Mr. Lloyd George’s
stand,
which
it
declared
to be
“‘Fantas-
tic and
Absurd”’.
The
manner
in which
the
Premier’s
statement
of iast
Friday
was
received
by
the
French
Press
was
generally
criticized,
the
""Telegraph’’
repudiating
accusations
that
Mr. Lloyd
George
expressed
distrust
of France,
or
hinted
at
the
Anglo-French
estr:
nge-
ment.
The
newspapers
called
such
im.
plications
by
French
journalists
"“Very
Foolish’’, and
declared
the British would
suppoyt
Mr.
Lloyd George
in
Insisting
that
settiement
of
the
Silesian
ques-
tion
must
be along
the
lines
laid
down
by
the
Treaty
of
Versailles.
While
expressing
the
opinion
that
yester-
day
statement
by
the
Preuier
was
rather
gratitous
and
superfluous
the
“"Daily News”
repeated
its
recent
ap-
proval of
the
Premier’s
views
and
re.
buked
the French
newspapers
which
dis.-
cussed
the
relations
between
Great
Rrit-
ain and
France
in
terms
admirably
eal-
culated
to
create
rather
thun
avert
a rift
between
the
two
countries.
Mr. floyd
George
talked
with
such
obviously 2ood
sense
that
we
hope French
opinion
wijl
coneur
with
it and
thatin
the Chamber
friendshivp
and
good
feeling
towards
Great
Britain
and
loyalty
towards
the
observance
of
the
treaty,
will rise
above
petty
controversy
declared
the
‘'Chron-
iele’’.
It is difficult however
to
see
how
a
settlement
can
be.
reached
unless
»
grea'er
sense
of
responsibility
is shown
by
the
French
Press.
The'
“'Exnress”’
rega~ded
yesterday’s
statement
as ‘‘time.-
ly’’ and
‘‘justified’’, and
said it was
ne.
cessary
for
both
nations
Zand
for
the
causes,
of
which
they
were
the trustees,
that
the
words
of
Mr
Lloyd
George
should
be
heeded.
Constantinople,
May 19th.-Alara
over
the
safely
of
Constantinople
is
appar-
ently felt
by
Allied officials here.
Oper-
ation
by
bandits
are
assuming
serious
provortions,
particularly
in Thrace.
large
numbers
of
Bolshevik
are
arriving
and
the
United
States
Embassy
is
under
guard
of armed
sailors.
Brigadier Gen-
eral . Harrington,
Commander
of
the
Allied forces
here,
has
gone
to London
to lay the
military situation
before
the
British
authorities.
The
country
s
threatened
with
famine
as
the fields are
untilled, the people
being
terrorized
and
afraid to leave their villages.