LOCAZL,
We have
been
informed by the
agents
that
the
s.
s. ‘'Catherine’’
is
expected
to go on dry dock at
St.
Thomas
on Fri-
day,
the
9th
inst.,
and
that
the
mails
will be
forwarded
from
St. Thomas
by
special
opportunity.
She
wiil
call
at
Frederiksted
on
Sunday
evening
for
mails and passengers,
leaving
at 10 p.m.
direct for San Juan,
P. R.
The
s.
s. *‘Bolivar’’ sailed
from
New
York on Saturday
evening, having 8 tons
of
cargo
for Frederiksted
and
52
tons
for Christiansted.
14 lines
of rain
was
measured
at the
Fort this fmorning.
Correspondence
Christiansted,
May 6, 1924.
Editor,
St.
Croix Avis.
Dear
Sir:
For
the
beneflt
of
the director
of police,
Mr.
Francis
Coulter,
may
I
suggest
that
it
would
be
better
protee-
tion of the
pubiic
and
in
better
accord-
ance with
the
principles
of his
duty to
detail
policemen
to
the
public
streets
when
berds
of cattle
are
being
raced
helter skelter about such
streets
and
the
public
landing
blace
obstructing
traffic
and
endangering
the
public
safety,
as
was the
case
in Christiansted
this
morn-
ing
when
he
was
a
spectator,
than to
engage
in the Shaerlock
Holmes perform-
ance
of concealing armed
policemen
be-
hind
curtains
when
1
discuss
the
peo-
ple’s business
with
the
people,
for their
benefit,
guidance
and protection.
Very truly yours,
H. BERG,
M-t O
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Aora India, May 3rd. —Lieut. Pelletier
Dotsy,
Franch
aviator flying from
Parls
to Tokio, arrived her= today
at 1.30 p.
m.
h wing
made
the
1.300 kilometres
from
Karachi,
British India,
in less than seven
hours,
despite
fogs
and
turrid
heat.
L =2ut. Doisy expeets
to contirue his flight
ty> Caleutta.
The
French
aviator
today
overtook
Major
Maciaren
the
Britisa
round-the world flier,
who has
been
de-
layed
at the
Northern
Indian
town
of
Parlu because
of motor trouble,
Berlin, May 4th.—M. Krestinsky,
Rus-
sian Soviet Ambassador
to Germany
left
forMoscow tonizht.
His departure
is
a
s2quel to the
action of the
Berlin Police
in entering
the building
of the
Russian
Trade Delegation and searching
the house
from
roof
to
cellar
for
a
Communist
against
whom
a warrant had been issued.
Glasgow,
May 4th. —The feature of th2
largest
May
Day celebration
ever
held
in Glasgow,
postponed
uniil
today,
was
ST £l
& V=
the
specch
by
Mr.
Maxtom,
Glasgow
Labour
member
of
the
House"of
Com-
isons,
who exhorted
the
crowd
to
es-
chew the word *‘tranquility”” and emblaze
on their banners
the
word ‘‘discontent.”’
Mr. Maxton added,
“‘as long as
we have
such
conditions,
dont
be peaceful,
2ven
for the sake
of the Labour
Government,
Politics
is not
a game
now,
buta
very
definite and bitter elass
war
which
can-
not be fought
with kid glove methods,
London,
May 4th-—Sinc?
the creation of
the Overseas
Settlement
Committee
44,-
269 immigrants
have been
assisted
under
the
Empire
Settlement
Act,
31,235
to
Australia, 6,839
to NewZealand and 6,195
to
Canada.
In the light of taese
figutes
and
tendencies,
the
report
says,
it is at
least
safe
to assert
that there
is no
pros-
pect of immmigration reducing
the number
of th«
population of
Great
Britain
in
a
manner
injurious to posterity.
As
a
mat-
ter of fact,
the total migration
trom
this
country
last
year.
though
substantially
larger
than
that of the previous
year was
less
by 133,000
than
in 1913.
Berlin,
May
4th.—General
elections
took
place
today
throughout
Germany.
Advance
reports
from
ail the
metropoli-
tan centres
and
industrial
sections
Indi-
cate
an exceptionally heavy
vote, the
to-
tal exceeding
80 percent
in th2 numerous
precinets,
as compared
with 78 four years
ago-
Only
a few disturbances
were
re-
po:ted
in and oatside
of Berlin,
I'he vot-
ing
in
the
occupied
aresas
proceaded
without obstruction.
A
very
large
So-
cialist and
Communist
vote was
register-
ed in the Ruhr,
Saxony,
Thuringia
and
the industrial
districta
of 2:eater
Berlin.
In the local residential
precinets
the Ger-
man Nationalists
and the Ludendorft par-
ty led the
others.
London, May sth.- —=Earth shocks,
equal
in
intensity
to
those
occuarring
in
the
Derbyshire
coal fields on
April 4th,
were
registered
over
a
period
of
seven
min-
utes
on
the
seismograph
at
the
West
Bromwich
Observatory
l=st
night,
The
centre of the
disturbance
is
believed
to-
be
about
40 miles
from the
cbservaiory.
Caleutta,
May
sth.—Lieu:.
Pelletier.
Doisy
arrvived
bhece
at
ose
o’clock
this
afternoon
in
his
flight from
France
to
Japan.
He
covered
the
las
730 iles
of his journey in six
and
oae half
hours.
The
airman
will probably
r:main
here
two
or
three
days
for
repairs
to
the
wings of his airplane.
London,
Maysth.—Keen
irterest
was
aroused
here
today
by
the
news
that
Lieut. Pelletier
Deisy,
the
freuch avia-
tor,
had
arrived
at
Calectta
on
his
flicht
to
Tokio.
The
press
is
in-
clined
to
believe
that Licut.
Doisy may
continue
his flight around
th:
world
ip
competition
with
the
DBriti:h
and
the
United States fliers, alchough
at the start
of his journey it was announced
he would
fly only as far as Tokio.
Karachi,
May
sth.—The
Portuguese
aviators, Brito, Paes
and
Sarmento
Bei-
ros,
who are making
a flight
to China,
arrived here
yvesterday
from
the
Indo-
Persian
frontier.
They
are
somewhat
exhausted,
having
encountered
strong
head
winds and dust storms
which great-
ly hindered
treir flight}
London
May
sth. (British
United)
Despite
Ulster’s objection
to the re-open-
ing of the boundary
question,
the
Colo-
nial Seeretary
announced
today
that
the
Irish Free
State
had appointed
Mr. John
MeNeill
asirs representative
on the bound-
ary
comnmission.
Ulster
has
been
re-
quested
to make
a
similar
appointment,
while the
British
will endeaver
to
name
a suitable
chairman.
Hongkong,
May sth.—The
passenger
motorboat
UOporto,
sailing
for
Canton
from
Kongmoon,
was
seized
today
by
pirates,
who killed the
Portuguese
skip-
per
and
an Indiin
goard and
Kkidnappad
forty passengers.
Washington,
May sth. Daily air mail
service
between
New York Sanfrancisco,
with deliveries within
25 hours,
or
from
one “morning
to the
following ev2ping,
will begin
on July Ist.
was announced
to-
day
by
the
Post-Master
General
T{he
time of
transit
will be cut
to 24
hours,
probably
within 2 few moaths.
the
Post-
master
General oclieves.
|
London, May sth. —(United Press)
The
Cabiret Committee,
which has
been
sit-
ting §for
some
weeks
past
under
the
Cnairmanship
of Mr. Thoinas,
concluded
its investigations
and
has made
certain
recommendations,
relative
o
the future
of the airehip problem
in Great
Britaio,
which have
been
sant
to the whole
cabi-
net,
If the latter
accepts
these
recom-
mendations,
work witl be
began
imme ii-
ately
on
the
first
super-airship,
which
will bring
the very remotest
parts of the
British Empire within seven days of Lon-
don.
This new airship will carry
about
200 passengers
and
eleven
tons of
mail
and will have
a speed of at least 80 miles
per
hour,
London, sth As
a result
of the Prime
Minister’s conference
with
M.
Theunis,
of Beigium, at Cheqguers
Court,
over
the
-week end;
a new
inter-Allied conference
for making
the experts
reparation
pian
effective,
is elos2r
at
hand
than
bas
been
gen=rally
anticipated,
aceoirding
10
the
view of British officials who have
had
aa
opvortunity
to learn
something of
infoi-
mal eonversations
held at the
Premier’s
official country
residence.
:
New York, May
sth—Another decline
of 1/i6
cents
was
recorded
in
the
local
raw sugar
market
today. withspot
quo-
tations
at 3.90, duty paid.
Refied
sug-
ar
also
declined
owing
to
the cieaper
raws,
with fine granulatad
quoted
at 7.60
and 7.70.
Re?ne&futures
were noninal
London,
May
™
bth.—Fortysix
were«
killed and
three
villages
destroyad
by
terrific storms
in
the
Hairdoi
distiiet of
the
united
provinces
of Indi;,
near
where
the
worl! flyers
are
attempting
to
cross
the continent,
aoccording
to
a