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78TH
YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED,
V. & U.
8. A,
BATURDAY,
15tH
MARCH
1924,
referred
to
an
inter-Seandin'
vian
Jury.
Bogota
Colombia,
Mareh
12th.—The
celebrated
‘'Teraple
of
the
Sun’’ of the
Chibehas
Indians,
long known
1 Colom-
bian legend,
has
been
discoverea
by
a
scientific
expedition
makinz
explora
tions
in
the
mountains
near
Sogamoso
100
miles
from
Bogoota,
according
to
messages
received
here
today.
Accord-
ing
to
old
Spanish
manusceripts
the
temple
was sacked
in
1537
after
a fierce
battle
be‘ween
Conquistadores
and
the
Indians
and later
expediiions
werz2
una-
ble to find it again.
New
Yoik,
March
12th--The
United
States
will be
without
the services
of its
two tennis
sces
in 1924 Olympie competi-
tion,
as
a result
of Wm,
Tilden’s
with-
drawal
because
of
a ruling
that
Uni‘ed
States
Olympie competitdss
cannot
write
for
newspapers
or
syndicates
while
abroad.
Wm.
M.
Johnsten.
¢xchamypion
who ranks
next
to Tilden
in the
nutional
lists,
previously had decided
he
would
be
unabie
to accept
an
invitation which it
is
planned
to send
to France.
|
London,
March
12th—Tha
Daily Ex-
|
press
gives great
piominence
today
toa
|
statement
to
the
efiecet
that
the
dispute
|
between
the Pope
and
the
ltalian
Gov-
|
ernment
is
about
to
be
settled.
The
|
terms
of
the
d&greement
by
which
the
|
trtouble will
be ended,
says
the
newspa-
|
per,
are first.
the jgovernment
to surren-
|
der
to the
Vatican
the
whoie
of Vatican
Hill, of which
the Vaticar
now
holds
on-
|
ly
a part.
Sea
nd,
the
Governmeat
to
build at
its own cost
a palace
°r a
series
of
houses
for
the
accomodation
of Car-
|
dinals,
the
Holy S=ein
return
handing
|
over
to the Government
scattered
proper-
|
ties through
Rome
in whiei the Cardinals
|
are
now housed,
and third,
the
Indepen-
|
dence
of the
Pope
to
be
guaraateed
by
|
the
League
of Natious.
The
statement,
|
adds
that
under
the
azreemeut
the Pope
|
will remain
an independent
sovereigonand
|
Vatican
Hill wiil have
the
status
of
an
|
independent
couinty.
‘
Paris,
March
12th.
- The
treaty
under
|
which Great Britain,ltaly and
Japan
ailot-
|
ted
Bessarabia
to Roumania
as
a
part of
|
the
territorial settiement
after
the
war,
|
wus ratified by the Chamber
of Deputies
|
yesterday
by
a
vote
of 478
to 74.
The
|
Soviet
Government
has
already
an-
|
nounced
that it will
not
recognize
at the
Vienna Conference
the Roumanian
elaim
to Bessarabia.
nor will the Russiin
dele-
gates
discuss
the
Roumanian
gZold
re-
serve,
valued
at
aboat
$75,000,000
which
was sent
to
Moscow
in 1917 when
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|
ST. CROIX STATION.
|
London,
Maren
Ilth.—Mr.
Stephen |
Walsh,
Secretary
for
War,
replying
to
a
questi')n
i?
tie
H""‘ESJ ()f
\:)‘“U]/‘nn,
!
siid it was
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the Govern-
|
ment
Departmeants
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preferenc:
|
within
reasoaabla
linits
to
goods
and
!
m terials
produced
within
the
Em-.
p re, but tha
quastion
of
formal
adner-
|
ence
to the
resolutions
passed
atl
the
|
i uperial Conference
on
the
matter
was
|
not for the War Offica to
decide.
Asked
|
whether
he would
give
a similar
under-
|
tiking
to
that
given
to
the
Imperial
|
E:onomic
Conference
by
his pre-dzces-
|
syt
in
the
War
Secerewaryship,
that
in
|
every
case
the dominions
source
of sud-
|
plv
would
be
considered
in
connection
|
with
the
granting
of
a
contract,
Mr.
|
Walsh said
he
had
no offizi:l kiowi>dze
|
that
Lord
Derby
had
said
anything of
the
kind,
nor
any
other
Locds.
This
|
was gree-ed
with cheers
from
the
minis-
isterial
benches.
|
Athens,
March 12th. —A bomb
was ex-
’
ploded
this morning
at
the
enirance
to
|
the
British
Legation,
ecausing
material
damage,
but
injuring
no
one.
Greck
|
officials expressed
belief
that
the
inci-
|
dent
was staged
in an
effort
to discredit
|
the Government.
The
Premier
and
the
|
Minister of
the
Interior expressed
the
|
regrets
of the
Government
to
the
Brit-
|
ish
sinister
for
the
outrage.
Inquiry
|
was opered
under
the
direction
of
the
|
British
Police
Officials and s2veral
sus-
‘
pects
were detained.
Christiania.
March
12th--Represeotat-
|
ives
of Sweeden,
Norway Denmark
and
|
Finland, meeting
at Stockholm,
have for-
§
med
a convention
under
which
all’ dis-
|
putes
between
these
nations woull
bz
'
No 61.
|
the
Roumarian
armies
were
being
de-
|
seated
by
Germany.
For
months
the
i
Soviet army
has
been
on
one
side
of the
|
Diester
River
and
the
Roumanians
on
i
the other
watching
each
other
intently.
|
The Roum:
nian
Cabinet
is
described
us
f
intently anxious
over
the
Vienna
meet-
|
ing,
upon
which
it
is eonsidered
peace
|
or war may depend
because
of
the high
|
tone
taken
by
Moscow.
Thus
Rouma-
|
nia
desires
to
go
into
the
conference
'
with the
formal
ratification
by the Allied
{
Government
of their
agreements
giving
|
Bessarabia
to her.
E
London,
March
12th.—‘‘l
have
not
|
changed
my
opinion
on
any
great
and
|
broad
issue
in
the
last
twenty
years,”
declared
Mr. Winsten Churehill, indepen-
-
dent
candidate
in the hye-election
in the
i
Abbey
Division
of
Westminster.
Mr.
.
Churchill
seems
eagar
to
disabuse
the
~electors
of that
constitueney
of apy
idea
|
that
his political
career
has
been
incon-
~
sistent.
The
newspapers
owned
by
Lord Beaverbrook
and
Lord
Rothermere
continue
to
give
Mr.
Churchill
their
enthusiastie
support.
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