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77TH
YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.
1.
U.
S.
A.,,
TUESDAY,
114 t AUGUST,
1923.
was arrested
last April when
h 2 was
en-
route with Miss Ma:Sweeney
to the
fun-
eral
of
Liam
Lyneh
at
Cionmel.
No
other releases
were reported.
Cowes,
Isle
of
Wight,
August
9th.—
Weather
conditions
were
ideal
for
the
third day of the Royal Yacht squadron
re-
gatta,
a
fair
westerly
breeze
holding
throughout
21l
events.
The
chief
race
for handieap
boats
of more than
100 tons
displacement
for towns-people
was sailed
over
& forty mile
corrse.
It
was
a good
contest
between
the
PBritannia,
upon
which
King George
again
sailed,
the
Nyria and
the
Terpsischore.
The latter
went
ashore
when
she
was
well
placed
and
the
Nyria
won
by
a
three
minute
margin from the Royal cutter.
J.
H. Cos-
ter’s Paula
3-d
wen
by
a few seconds
in
the
handicap
race
for
boats
under
100
tons from the Andreas
and
the Candida.
The Kelpie ywon the
twelve
metre
class,
with the Vanity s2cond
and
the
Atlanta
third.
The
Sezette,
a
member
of
the
British
team
which is competing with tae
United States
four
for the DBritish-Amer-
ican Cup,
won the
six
metre
race,
with
Jean
second
and
the Capella third.
Berlin,
Aug. 9th,
-Chanc llor
Cuno’s
address
to the Reichstag
in which
he
de-
clared that passive
resistance
was the sole
weappn
of
the
Kuhr
end
the Rhineland
and would continue
to
be
supported
by
the nation,
has been
received
as ti:e most
depressing
statement
yet
made
to
the
National Legislature by the
present
Gov-
ernment.
The
coalition
parties
view it
as
superfluous,
in
view
of
the
present
situation
and
also
regard
it as
a disap-
pointing utterance.
The
Chancellor
was
visibly
discorcerted
by
the
boisterous
heckling of the communist
members.
Ottawa,
Aug 9th. —Before
the largest
crowd
that
has
witnessed
a
Lacrosse.
mateh
in Ottawa
in
years,
the
touring
Oxford Cambridge
team
went
down
to
defeat
before
t.e
Ottawa
Shamrocks
here
last night by a
score
of 14 to 7.
The
Hon. Mac Kenzie Kirg faced
the ball.
Brussels,
Aug. 9th.—Premier
Theunis
today
served
notice
on
ail
bankers
and
brokers
that if speculation
in exchange
¢ )ntinued
strenu:us restric.ive
measures
would
be taken,
beginning
with
limit.«
tions of excharige
transactions
and
even-
tualiy leading if necessary,
to the closing
of
the
Bourse.
The Premier
is
of
the
opinion
that
the decline in
the
Belgian
franc is unjustified
in view of the
indus-
trial
prosperity
of
the
couatry,
the
splendid
crops,
the
favourable
budget
situation and the diminution of the circula-
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antee
of good faith
The editor cannot
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nor does he necessarily
endorse them.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
Aug.
9th.—One
of
the
mo:t
important developments
of modern
trade
unionist in Great Britain is foreshadowed
by
a
manifesto
issued
by the Transport
and General
Workers
(Jnion
ard the N:-
tional Union of Railwaymen
whizh in ei-
fect
signalizes
the
commencement
of an
alliance beiween
the two.
This probab y
will be
a revival of the aliiance of labour,
waich
came
to an end
on what
is known
t roughuut
the
trede
union
world
as
Black Friday.
Paris.
Aug. 9th.—The Belgian
Govern-
men*
has
decided
to
take the
initiat've
and direcily approach
Great Britain
and
France,
it
the
reparations
negotiations
anong
the Allies show
no
signs of being
rosumed
at an early date,
says
a Brussels
despateh
to
he
bxcelsior.
Premier
‘‘heunis
«nd
Foreign
Minister
Jaspar
will
come
to
Paris,
the
eorrespondent
asserts,
to
prcpose
that
the reparations
f.om
Gernany.
so
far
as
France
and
Belgium
a e
conicerned,
be
confined
to
the
mater:al
d: mage
sufferid
by
these
countries
and
furthermore
that
Great
Britain ca icel tie
inter Allied debts,
re-
ceiving from Germany
for
Ler part
the
amount
oi monay
she owes
the
United
States.
Cn
th:s basis,
according
to the
despatel,
Belgian
Ministers will suzgest
that inter-Allied pour parlours
b= staried
to
settle the
guarantees
to
be
required
from
Germany,
thus
coming
within
the
provisions
of the Versailles Treaty.
Dubiin,
Aug. 9th.—Count Plunket,
the
noted republican
jeader who was
elected
a Republican
Deputy
from
Roscommon,
today
was released
from the military
in-
ternment
camp
at
County
Kildare.
He
No. 186.
fion.
All of these
factors,
he 2ontended,
favour
a better
rate
for Belgian money.
Publicati
ECTION 31 of the
Ordinance
concern-
8, ing Public
Roads
in
St.
Croix,
ap-
proved
July
14,
1923
to
take
effect
from July 1.
1923, reads
thus;
“To provide for the maintenance
and
operation
of
the
road
machinery
there
shall
be levied, assessed
and
collected
by
the
Government
from
and after July
1,
1923,
the
following
sewi-annual
fees
which
shall
be payable
on
January
Ist
and July Ist respeectively
:
(a)
For passenger
carrying
automuobiles
not
ex-
ceeding 2,200 lbs.
...
.. Franes
40.00
(b)
For passenger
carrving
automobiles
from
2,2G0
to 3,000
Ibs. weight....
**
50 00
(¢) For
passenger
carrying
automobiles
above
3,000
. WHERE
.i s
Y
BB DD
(d) For Auto Trucks
or other
freight
veh®les
under
BOh b
...
...
VY e
(e) For Auto Trucks orother
freight
vehicles
above
SN,
...
.......
"I
>
(f) For Auto Truck Trailers
per
ton
capacity
per
INee
...
i
o
B
In default
of this
tax not being
paid it
shall be c~llected
in the
samie
manner
as
.provided
in the Horse, Carriage
and Boat
Tax Ordinance,
New
licenses
issued
within the
perjod
shall be paid for proportionately,”’
The
taxes
due according
to
the
above
section
for the
second
half
of
1923
be-
came
caue
on July 1, 1923 and
will be
pay-
able at the Police Offices on September :
1923
in the
same
manner
as
the
Hors:,
Carriage and Boat Tax.
Tax-lists
will
be
distributed
by
the
Police
Department
and
are
required
ty
be correctly filled out and returned
to the
respective
Police Offices
2 days after
re-
ceipt in the towns
and
4 days
after
re-
celpt in the
country.
Government
of the
Virgin Islands
of
the United States
of Amierica,
St, Croix,
August 3, 1923,
R. E.
BARRETT,
:
DespatehingdSecretary.