The tuz Joroe Bird Leon
arrived
here
on
Saturday
aiiernoon,
took
a
load
of
cattle
and
i:’t last
evening
for
Porto
Rico,
this-shipn2nt
beiag
vrobably .taz
largest
monetary
transaceéion
made
bere
in this line with Porto
Rico.
T
Some
beantifu[ calenders
for
1920 ar2
being distribut2d
this
season,
the firms
of D.
O. Bornn & Sons
of
St.
Thomas,
.
and Alexander,
Stakemana
and
Abram-
son,
of
our
toHwh
presenting
very
fine
ones
to their patrons.
Frederiksted,
29th Dec.
1319.
The
mail-schooner
**Virgini<”arrived
at
this
port
about
4
o’ciock
Saturday
afternoon
with
mails,
72
packages
gen-
eral
~arzo
and
the following passengers:
:
From
Porto
Rico--Maria
Adamsen,
E
ward
Gedde,
Charles
A.
Genrow,
Peter
Adamsen,
Daisy Linqvist, Catalina
Lindqvist,
Emelia
Lindqvist,
Modesto
Bannswell,
Sarah
Bannswell,
William
Brown.
From
St..
Thomas—lsaae
Crutchelow,
Olaunde
Marshali,
Helea
Williams.
.
She
left
yesterday
at
6 p.
m.
for St.
Thomas
and
Porto
Rico with the follcw-
ing passengers:
My, Cesar
Depanol,
Miss Mary Charles
Miss
T.oretta
Taitt,
Masier
H
Haaisen,
M¢e.
Ashley
Totton,
Miss
Eliz.
Hendrick-
sen,
‘Mr.
Joseph
Heyiliger,
Mr.
James
Thomas,
Mr.
Aiphonso
Dembo.
Mr.
Henry Dewent,
Mr. Austin Brewer,
Mas-
ter
Binrham
Hark,
Dr.
H.
Hark,
Mr
Christopher
Hoheb,
Romelio
Nicholas,
Mr.
Reginald-
Jackson,
Mr.
Geo.
Cro-
isier.
'he scheoner
‘‘Onerome’’ arrived here
yesterday
morning
from
Porto
Rico via
. St.
Thomas
with
80
packages
general
careo
for this island.
The
S.
S.
““Parima’’ arrived
Sunday
mornipz
at
2 o’clock from
New York via
St.
Thomas
with 2,400 packages
for
the
island and
the foliowing passengers:
From
New
York:
Mr
& Mrs.
John-
e
son,
Miss
M.
Bahnsen,
Rev.
&
Mrs«
Burns,
Miss
S.
Jensen,
Mrs.
A Lewis,
Mpr. Jas.
Daily.
-~
From
St. Thomas:
“Mrs. Pilgrim,
Mr.
A.
Prewer,
Wisses
Helena
and
Sussana
Cudvig,
M:. O.' Brown,
Mr. E.
Hassell,
Mr.
P.
Lindgrist,
Aon E. Williams and
Sister Beulah,
Mr. Jos.
Fergus.
The
Editor of the St. Crsix Avis.
Dear
Sir,
:
Please
inseri
the
following news
“item :
There
will be an entertainment
at the Leper Asylum by
the
patients
on-
New- Year’s izy from
1:00 p.
m. to 5:00
p.
Relatives
and personal
friends of"
t'hen%epers
are invited.
-
;
oot
Nopra ey telys
00
L
"
H. L. BROCKMANN.
:
Mumicipal Physician
in Charge.
STt RO
®E
A& Vls.
Dreadnought
tried to de ‘eat the
Athle-
tic Association
by using Lker big
guns
on
the 26th Dec.
The
game
was
supposed
to have started
at 4.30 but
on
ac ount
of
giving a fair chance
tothe
Invincible
C.
Club to defeat the Dauntless
of St. Thomas
did not kick off before
5.15.
Both.
sides
played
well,
and
came
to
the
coneclusion
for a ‘draw
eame.
The
Dreadnought
thoughtto herselt of giving
the Athletic
a thrashing
for
*heir
feeble
attempt,
but got lost, their big guns
were
of little use and
therefore
“ailed
to
com-
ply wiith herdesire.
In fact
she
thought
herseif
to
be
the
strongest
Foot
Bali
Team
on
the Island,
but the
Athletic has
shown
her where
she
is
not by that
game
on Thursday.
Practice
weil
Athletiec.
and
show
the
boys of the
Dreadnought
where
ynu
ean
defeat
them,
we
know
vou
ean,
{rom
past
experience;
gef
ready
to
mobilize
and go
to
war
against
the
so-called
big
guns,
lon’t keep
away
fwom practice
and
have to o
to
war
unprevared,
asis
al-
ways
the
ecase,
show
the
Dreadnought
where
vou
are
quite
capable
cf
being
Number one.—Com.
:
TELEGRAMS
S
OGROIX
STAVION.
Brassels,
Dee.
23vrd.—The
Foreign
Minister,
M. Pati
Hymans,
made
a
long
statement
today eg the
Be'gian
Foreign
poiicy eoncerning
-the
revision
of
the
Treaty of 1829.
He
wzs unable
to
enter
¢
into details
as negotiations
were unfinish
ed but however they
might result, he
said
Belgium would
not enter
intoc
any
agree-
ment
irc the direction
of re.urning
to
neu-
trality or
restriction
of
h=r
sovereign
ri-ts.
Belgium, said
the Foreign
Minis-
t
:
wishes
to remain
free
to
choose
hel
i
nds
and
Allies.
which
was
necessitat-
by her honour
and
national
dignity.
Vashington.
Deec.
23rd.
Exports
and
.ports
reached
t “eir highest
mark in the
United States
historv
with
$741,000,000
! former and $329,000.000
of latter
-dur
ing the menth
of Nevember.
The
H' cue,
Dee.:
23vrd.—The
official
Netherlands
Correspondence
Buteau
to-
day
announces
that
there
is
no
truth
in
the statement
published
in
the
*‘Soir of
|
Brussel
-’ to the effect
thai
he
Nether-
lands Government
has already
unofficial-
" ly informed
the
Allies
that
the
Dutch
|
GGovernment
will not
surrender
the
for-
mer German Emperor, if ex radition
is re-
quired.
The Bureau
says
that
as
yet
no
action
in the matter
has
becn
taken.
Geneva,
Dec.
23rd.—Former
Empress
Zita of Austria
is reported
(o be
serious-
ly i!l with pheumeonria
at
Prangis.
Paris,
Deec.
'23rd:
The
visit
to
Lon-
don
of
M. Philippe Berthelot,
poiitical
director of the Foreign Office, it is learn-
|
ed
today from an authoritative
source,
is
. being made in order
to confer
with Earl
|
Cnrzon and prepare for
a
descussion
of
|
the Eastern
question
when
the
Peace
Conference
meets
again.
It
was
said
yesterday
that France
and Great
Britain
~are
not entirely in accord
as
to the fate of
Constantinople,
Great Britain desiring to
take the city entirely out of the hands
of
the Turks,
in possession
and
under
con-
trol of the
Allies.
.
;
Paris,
Deec.
23rd.—That
M.
Georges
Clemenceau
may be the next President
of
~
the French Republie,
is the ccn
census
o
|
opinion
in
the
Chamber
of
Deputies.
Despite
the Premier’s
veto
to
open
hi.
candidacy,
severalimembers
of the Cham-
ber
are resolved:to:
place
his
name
to
the
fore, and
are positive -they
ean
count
up-
on the
support
of
450
members
of
the
Chamber
and
150 Senaters.
Washington,
Dec.
23rd.— Wheat
pro
.
duection
for-1919 was
2,074,761,000
bush-
els
or
97.07
per
cent
of
the 1918
and
96.5 per cent
of the average,
according
to
figures
on fifteen covntries
furnished
by
the International Institute of Rome.
The
countries
included
were
Spain,
France.
England,
Wales,
Scotland, Italy,
Nether-
lands,
Rumania,
‘Switzerland,
Canad..
the United States,
British
India,
Jap
n,
Tunis, Denmark,
and Algeria.
The
suear
beet production
for
Spain,
Netherlands,
Switzerland, ' Canada,
and
the
United
States,
117 per
cent
of
the
1918
output
and
‘lO5
per
cent.
of.
the
five year
average -is
placed
at
10,309,000
tons.
¢
Halifav,:
N« 8.,
Dec.
26th.—A despatch
from-
Washington
says.
the
Weather
Bureau
issued
the followingwarning
to-
day:
‘‘Advisory southwest,
storm
-sig-
nal warnings
ordered
at
10
'a.
m.
from
Sandy Hook to East
P'orst.
Stormof
eon-
siderable
intensity north of Lake ‘Huron.
moving eastward.
‘lncreasing-seuth
and
south-west
winds will shift
.t 6 westerly
by morning, probably reachine gaie force.
'
Cloudy
weather. probably
suov.
on East-
.
ern Newzealand
Coast’’.
Londor,
Dec.
23rd. <The
King
issued
a
proclamation
today
announcing
‘the
.
new measure,
giving
llndia
a
larcer
de-
gree
of
seif-government.
The
precia-
mation
characterizes
the
Governmert
Bill as
an historic act, giving
representa-
tion long desired
by the natives.
It calls
forth
the
determination
of
.the
people
and the officials
to work together
for
the
-
common
purpose
of making
the
new plan
-of government
a success.
.
Winnipeg,
Dec.
24th.—R.
B.
Russell,
one of the strike
leaders,
was
convieted
.
today
on
a charge
of
seditious
conspir-
acy.,
and committing
a common
nuisance.
A unanimous
verdict of guilty on
all
sev-
en
counts
was returred
by the Jjury.
Nice,
Firance, Dec.
24th.—Mr.
Arthur
.
Capel, whu, .during the war,
was
Politi-
.
cal Secretary
to the War Committee,
was
-
killed last night in
an
automobile
aceci-
dent,
while he
was on
his
way
from
Pa-
-
risto
Mont
Carlo.
A
tyre
on
his
car
.
blew
out,
ditching
the
machine.
Mr.
.
Capel was
a close friend
of
Mr.
Lloyd
George.
:
:
e
-
Washington,
Dec.
24th.—President
'
Wiison
last
night
announced
he would
return
the railways
to private ownership
on March the first.
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