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75TH
YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.II. U.S.
A.,
FRIDAY
14tH
MAY 1920,
one hundred
and twenty four submarines
have been allocated
to Great
Britain,
ac-
cording to an announcement
made
in
the
House
of Commons yesterday.
The Unit-
ed
States
will get the
Oscfriesland
and
Frankfurt,
France®
has
been
awarded
the Thuringen
and Emden
and 38 subma-
rines Japan
will get the Oldenburg.
Nas-
sau and Italy will receive
7 submarines.
The ships
scuttled at Scapa
klow
go
to
Great
Britian
and
the
allocation
of the
remaining 12 light
cruisers,
58
destroy-
ers
and 50
torpedo
boats,
the
members
of the House of Commons
were
inform-
ed,
depends
on
the
selections
made
by France
and Italy from
the ships
to be
surrendered
under the Austrian
Treaty.
~
i.ondon,
May
4th. —The
Press
gives
ample details
of the great industrial
mer-
ger that Colonel
Grant
Morden
has
or-
ganized,
but there
is little editorial
com-
ment offered.
The financial writer of the
“Times’’ says
‘‘ltmarks
a new
stage
in
the era of industrial eombinations
and
it
will probably
prove
the
firerunner
for
others,
if the British Empire
i 3 to
reap
the
full
benefits
from
the
association
with the self governing nations in
' evel-
opment.
British steelmakers
are taking
a wise step for safeguarding
their future
supplies
of raw material,
and
providing
Canada
with an opportunity
of working
her
mineral
resources
on
a
big
scale.
"*The
writer
urges
promoters
to
eschew
temptation
to create
excessive
capital.”’
The *‘Daily News’’ advises
the
public to
carefullv examine
how the capital figures
are arrived at and the! prospects
for pro-
fiteering.
The ‘'Daily Express’’
congra-
tulates
Colonel Grant
Morden on
what
is
not only a brilliant success
for
him
per-
sonally but is also
an
event
of
tremen-
dous imyortance
to the
econgmic
life of
the British people.
London,
May 4th.—lmportance
is
at-
tached
to the reply given in the House of
Commons,
on behalf ¢f Mr. Lloyd George.
to a question
by Mr. Percy
Hurd,
as
to
whether
the Premiers
attention had been
drawn
to
the
statements
that
Canada
was to have
independent
diplomatic
re-
presentatives
in
the
United
States
and
vice versa,
and
as
to what
was
the
pre-
sent
position of the discussion
of the sub-
ject between
Ottawa, Washington,
and
London
The reply stated
that the Govt.
was
as yet unable,
but.hoped
tc
make
a
statement
shortly.
London,
May 4th.—Overalls
are
about
to invade Parliament
but will be
combin-
ed with spats
to relieve the
historic place
of some
of the
shock.
*Major Newman
member
for Finchley,
will be
the
man
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DISEASES
DANGEROUS
TO PUBLIC
"HEALTH IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.
OF U.
S.
A.
During
the
month
of April
1920,
the following diseases
of interest
to the
public
have
occurred:
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(Delayed
in transmission.)
Marseilles,
May
3rd.—This
harbour
is
almost
completely
paralyzed
by
a
strike.
No ship
has left since
the
walk-
out was
declared ard
the
docks
are
de-
serted.
London,
May 3rd.—The
Dublin
cor-
poration this evening passed
a resolution
acknowledging
the Irish Re
üblican Par-
liaments guthority
to undertake
the
car-
rying
out
of all
its
decrees
affecting
the Municipal Council.
1t
was
decided
to send
copies
of the
resolution
to the
Govts.
of
Europe,
the
United
States
and President
Wilson.
’
London, ®May
4th. -The
former
Ger-
man warships
Baden,
Helgoland,
Posen,
Rhineland,
Westfalen
and Nurnberg
and
No.
110.
who
will
introduce
them
to
West-
minster.
Major
Newman
admitted
his
intention
to
wear
overalls
to
the
House
and
says
he
has
become
a
firm
convert,
and
this
means
the
smash-
ing of the
clothing
prices,
which
were
inaugurated
on
may day.
He
clings
hov-
ever
to spats,
and
has told an interview-
er he will wear th>m
his
with
unparla-
mentary
garb.
Paris,
May 4th. —lnformation
late
last
night showed
that the strike was making
virtually no progress
as
whilst
most
of
the
dock
workers
at
Marseilles,
Bor-
deaux,
Havre,
Brest
and
Dunkirk
went
out
yesterday
afternoon,
many
of
the
railway.
men
are
returning
to
their
work.
Warsaw,
May
3rd.—The
Boisheviki
are entrenched
in the
Hills on
the
West
Bank
of
the
Dnieper
in
a
great
semi-
circle
with
their
backs
against
Kiev,
the Ukrainian
Capital,
according
to
in-
formation
today
from
the
front.
The
fighting
for
the
possession
of Kiev.
is
at its height and
raging
day
and
night
along
the
line
through
the
valleys and
rivers.
New
York,
May
4th.—lndications
that
a volcanic eruption
in
taking
place
on
the
Island
of
Qld
Provinece
in
the
Caribbean
Sea
was
reported
here
today
by the
United
Fruit
Company
Steamer
Calamares ina wireless
message,
which
said that volumes of
white
smoke
were
observed ascending
from one
of its
tall-
est
peaks
yesterday.
London,
May
4th.—The
next
confer-
ence of
the
League
of Nations
will
be
held at Rome
on May
14th.
Mr. Balfour
will represent
Great Britain.
London,
May 4th.—The
‘‘Daily Mail’’
says
today that General Sir John
Cowans
is to be managing
director of a
new
com-
pany under the control of the shell
trans-
port and trading company for
the
devel-
opment
ofthe
oilfields of
Mesopotamia,
which will be
par! of
an
extensive
reor-
ganization and e¥pansion
of
the
British
Oil Industry,
with -a
view
of inc easing
the nations
supply of fuel and
other oiis.
The plan,
which
it
is
declared
also
con-
cerns
rich
producing
centres
in
many
quarters
of the Giobe, and
interests
con-
trolling hundreds
of millions
of pounds,
is nearing completion,
and
an
announce-
ment
of the details
is
expected
shortly,
according
to the ‘‘DailyMail’’.
In other
quarters
it is maintained
that
whatever
plans
the Govt, may have
in
this
direc-
ion they
must
necessarily
be
held
up,
pending the
ratification
of
the
Turkish
Peace
Treaty.