OFFICIAL NOTES.
16 January,
1922.
““Lieutenant Commander
John J.
Gaft-
ney;
Supply
Corps,
U.
S.
Navy,
the
Government
Secretary,
sailed
for
the
United States
on the
S.
S.
ELMAC
yes-
terday,
on one
month’s leave of
absence.
Duringhis absence
Captain
Burwell
R.
Clarke,
U. S.
Marine Corps,
will
be
Act-
ing Government
Secretary.’’
LOCAL.
['he schooner
‘‘Mary C. Santos’’,
Capt.
J.
L.
Johnson,
with
63
head
of
eattle,
some
horses
and
sheep
for
account
of
Mr.
.
CO.
Jones
sailed
frorms
here
last
night for Barbados.
“he
schooner
Creole
has
not
yet
re-
turned
from
St.
Thomas.
Yesterday
was
m.rked
with
athletic
games
on
Parade
and
Holger
Danske
Grounds
and
there
was
masquerading
around
town in the afternoon.
NCorrespondence
The Editor of 'St.
Crow Avis’.
Dear
Sir:
The
‘‘Wang Nang
Blues’’
one
of
the latest
Fox Trots
is '‘hitting the
high
spots’’ in St.
Croix,
and
also
St.
Thoma
in public concerts
on the
Whart
as
well
as
in
dance
halls.
The
people
are
de-
lichted with this
stirring
number.
The
Native
Brass
Band
of Christiansted
in
some
of
its
recent
concerts
has
been
obiigad to respond
to encores
of the large
crowd whenever
this popular fooi-warmer
is
on the program.
The composers
have
certainly seored
a hit this
time.
Give us
some
more
doses
of
that kind
Mr. Lead-
er.
WANG FOO & FU WANG.
™~
s
9
T
st. Thomas News
On Sunday
evering
the
British
light-
house
tender
‘‘Firebird’’ arrived
at
this
port,
a haven
of refuge,
after
experienc-
ing weather
that blew her off her
course.
The
vessel
had left Nassau
for
Bermu-
da and
was about
40 miles from her
des-
tination
when
a
sevare
storm,
which com-
pelled
her
to
seek
this port,
a distance
of something
like 700 miles from
her ori-
ginal destination.
The Firebird received
a slight
shaking
up and
we
understand
will undergo
re-
pairs and refill her bunkers
here.
The ship is under
the command
of Cap-
tain Corbett,
R.
N.-——St.
Thomas
Mail-
Notes,
Jan.
11.
_
s ELCRULIX A VIS
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
Jan.
12th.—The
Registrar
General’s
vital statistics
published
today
show-that
last
weeks
deaths
from Influ-
enza
throughout
the
country
doubled
those
of
rhe
previous
week.
In London
deaths
from
Influenza
increased
from
1581
to
354.
The
number
of
deaths
in
some
of the towns,
from the
same
cause,
were
Westham
44,
against
40 in the
pre-
vious
week.
Manchester
27,
Leeds
21
Bolton
19,
B'rnbey
16
and
Bradford
16.
Geneva,
Jan.
12th'—Jugo
Slav
troops
to the number
of 80,000,
are
reported
to
the League
of Nations
council
by its
Al-
banian
commission
to have
been
massed
along tke
Albanian
{rontier
with the
ia-
tention,
the
Albanian
Government
char-
ges of reoccupying
the
territory recently
evacuated,
M. Jovanoviteh
the Juzo-Slav
representative.
at
the afterncon
session
sharply
attacked
the
information:
con-
veyed
by
the commission
from
Albania.
He
_rotested
that
Albania
was using the
League
of
Nations
as
a
medium
of
at-
tack and for accusing
Jugo-Slavia
of ecir-
culatiny false information.
Cannes,
Jan.
12th.—At
the
Supreme
Louncil
meeting
today
Dr
Rathenau
at
the
close
of
his
speech,
said
that
Ger-
many
was
able
to meet
the
London
terms
of 500,000,000
gold
marks
in
cash,
and
oae
billion
gold
marks'in
kind annually
but
could
not
go
beyond
those
figures.
He
explained
that
Germany’s
inability
to
pay
was
due
to
the
disastrous
ex-
cnange,
which
had
made
it necessary
for
Germany
to
buy
foreign
currency
until
the
mark
was
a
drag
on
the
market.
Germany’s
exportaiions
amounted
in
the
past
year
to
only
one fourth
of the
ex:
ports
in
1914,
and
the
balance
of trade
agains.
her
amounted
to
2,500,000,000
gold
marks.»
This
could
not
be
offset
by decreasing
imports,
because
Germany
was
now
buaying
abroad
only
food and
pecessary
materials,
So
far
as
could
be learned,
the
members
of the
council
were
not
favourably
impressed
by
Dr.
Rathenau’s
statement
asseriing
that
it
lacked precision
and
logic.
Washington,
Jan
12th—Broard powers
asked for by the President
in administer-
ing the
proposed
new
tariff law, with
a
view
to meeting
unusual
and
changing
world conditions
which
could
not be
an-
ticipated by Congress
would
be granted
under
amendments
to
the
Fordney
bill
proposed
todav
by
Senator
Smoot
of
Utah, ranking
Republican
on
the Senate
finance
committee.
The President
would
be
authorized
to
increase
or
decrease
tariff rates
by not
exceeding
50 per cent
of the
rates
fixed in the
bill to proclaim
American
valuation
as
the
basis
for
as-
sessing
duties
on
any
given list
of
im-
ports
to
charge
rates
within
the limit of
fifty per
cent,
so
as
to
meet
situations
arising in the United States
markets
as
a
result
of depreciated
foreign
exchanges
to
prevent
dumping
in
United
States
markets,
and
to
prevent
discrimination
against
United
States foreign
commerce
by foreign countries.
Dublin,
Jan.
12th.-—A general
strike
on all
the
Irish
railways
is announced
for Saturday
at midnight,
owing to the
refusal of the railway
managers
to meet
the cheirman
and secretary
of the
loco-
motive society
to
discuss
the proposal of
the companies
to
abolish
the
regulation
wages
and
hours,
which
were
settled
by
an
award
of
the
National
wages
Board
in
June.
The
men
declare
the
strike
has
been
called
to
resist
an
at-
tempt
to
throw
them
back
into position
nf low
wages,
long hours
and
bad work-
ing conditions
of
a
deeade
ago.
The
strike
will affect
23,000
workers.
Paris,
Jan.
12th.--M.
Briand today
re-
signed
from
the
Premiership
and
Mr.
Poincare
former
president,
will
likely
succeed
him.
M.
Briand
lesignation
came
with
dramatic
suddenness
in the
Chamber
of Deputies,
for
the Premier,
returning
this
morning from his confer-
erces
with the
British Prime
Minister at
Cannes
had
brought
the opposing
mew-
bers
of
this
cabinet
into accord
with his
policies and by and by
a powerful
speech
in the
Chamber
had
apparently
won over
the great
majority to his side.
His blunt
eloquence
evoked
a
tremendous
ovation
and when
he abruptly
declared
his inten-
sion of withdrawing
from
the Govt.
the
members
of
the
chamber
seemed
over-
whelmed.
Paris,
Jan,
14th.—!. Poincare
made
I'apidrprogress
in
his
work
of forming
a
Cahinet
this
morning,
to succeed
that of
M. Briand ;which resigned
yesterday.
It
was
expected
that
at
noon
he would
be
in
a
position
to
present
a
full
list
of
ministers
to
President
Millerand
late
this .afternoon.
Cannes,
Jan.
13th —The
Allied .repar-
ations
commission,
at
a
conference
held
here today,
decided
to grant
provisional
delay
to
Germany
on her reparation
ae-
count.
Mr.
Lloyd
George will leave for
London
this evening.
He may,
it is said,"
stop in Paris
enroute
to confer with Pre-
sident
Millerand and
with M. Poincare.
Paris,
Jan.
13th.——M.
Bri
nd today
re-
ceived
a telegram from Mr. Lloyd George
at
Cannes
expressing
in
sympathetie
tones
the hope
that
the resciuiion
adopt-
ed
by
the
:llied
stpreme
conncil
with
the participation
of the French
delegates
would bear
their good fruits
in bringing
together
the
KEuropean
nationals
and
in-
suring
their
cooperation
for
the restora-
tion of the prosperity
of their people.
Paris,
Jan.
13th.—H. M
Raymon Poin-
care,
who has
assumed
the task of form-
ing a
ministry
to succeed
that
of M Bri-
and,
said
tonight that
he did
not
think
that he
could complete
his work
before
Monday
morning
at the
earliest.
M.
Poincare
added
that he
had informed Mr.
Lloyd George
that
he would
be happy
to
confer with
him at
the
British Embassy
in Faris
tomorrow.