NOTICE REV. M. S. MORGAN will occupy the pulpit ¢t ¥redensfe.d (Midland) on Sunday March Tth. Promenade Goncert omenade LONGEI On The Wharf, 'To-Night : BY Thy ¢ NATIVE BRASS BAND —+PROGIAM ; Part | 1. Mareh...."The New Liberty.... - Lincoln. 2. Weltz. .. '"Bellevue’’ ... Minker. 8. “Uncle Josh’s Huskin’ Dance’’.... De Witt. 4. Cornet Solo ... .. ''Darling Neéllie Gray”’. ... Handy. (INTERMISSION : 1. Mareh....“The Standard Bearer’’. .. Fahrbach. 2. Overture.... 'Scenes From Opera- land’’ .. .. Al Hayes. 2 Jazz One 5tep......" When Jimmie Kurope’s Band Played Uhe Blues Over There.” ... . Arthur. 4. National Airs of the tollowinz coun- Tries: Belgivm, Spain, England France and Denmnark. STAR-SPANGLED BANNER - FRED. C. JACKSON, JR. Bandmaster. We have been informec that the Chris- tiansted Native Brass Land will give another eoncert on the Wharf Sunday evening, Tth inst. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Colmore is ex- pected to arrive here today by the "'Vix- en’’. The theatre was very scantily p tron- ized last night although :he show itself proved i most entertaining one. It is necessary 1o support this shnree of amuse- ment if it is to be continu2d and 2reater patronage should be accorled by tae pub- lic from whom thereis constant com- plaint that everything is s» dull. 1. 8. NAVY PRiESS NiWS March 3, 1920. MADRID: Reports frem the Portu guese Frontier today declare that the workmen in Portugal have proeclaimed a Soviet Republic. 'T'he Teegraph, Postal and other workers are saic to have join- ed railroad men in the move. News not confirmed. * MILAN: Anarchists sere following ending of strike,attacked factories. tram- ways and stores. They seized number b Ot A kD of Milun establishments and proclaimed them Soviet, but were expelled by mili- | tary forces. e l WASHINGTON: President Wilson weat for a motor ride today, leaving the | White House ground for the first time | since ordered to his bed last October, by | Admiral Grayson, his physician, a very | sick man. He® was accompanied bp Mrs. | Wilson and a second auto which was fill- | ed with secrei service men. ldeal weath- | er prevailed and closed car was used. Stayed out for one hour. W/ SHINGTON: in testinz new type of aeroplane paiachuie «t Uulling Meld tociay one man lost his life and another was seriously injured when the parachute fell into the Powmace rfloyd Smith, in- ventor of the parachute, was saved, while his assistant Charies L. Willi§ was drowned. ! mith was vaved by Naval L.aanch. LONDON: Allied Supreme Council today definitely decided fate of Tarkish Nuvy, deciding that Peace Treaty will provide that warships should be bruken up. Turkish Arms will be reduced to such a point that it would be ineffective against another couniry. Understord that subtractions are to be made from her terricory which will decrease her pupulation trom thirty to six millions. BERLIN: 7he fight to depiive the ex-Kaiser of his property and fortunes bewan in earnest today. Violent debate over Socialists motion to refer it to Na- ®ional Assemhly. L'ormer “serman ruler is denounced and his record mzde sub- ject of ridicule. LONDON: American invasion of Eng- “ land by tcurists this spr ng and summer is expecced and Daity Mail relling of rush of applications for hotel accommodations savs that among first to apply for suites were twenty-two American wiillionaires. FORT MEYERS: Captain Fage. pilot and two passengers were burned to death near Verglades, Florida, yesterday when seaplane falling caught fire. Both victims were residents of here. NEW YORK: Mystery caused by finding seven human skeletons buried between Hugenot and Princess DBay cleared up today when it was learned that spot many years ago was private cemetery and the incroachin; waves washing away the ground bas laid bare the skeletous. LONDON: General Deniken’s Army has been trapp~d in Kuban peninsula, southeast of the Sea of Azov,is the claim of a Bolshevik dispatch from Moscow. Dispatches claim that Keds anathiliated | his first Kuban Corps and advaaced near- ly cne hundred miles. | WASHINGION: In appearing before | House Naval:Committee Mondzy, Rear | Adriiral Badger urged Naval Construe- | tion that woujgl eive us the largest navy | in the worl Two dreadnoughis, 1 bat- | tle cruiser, 10 scout-cruisers, 4 destroy- | ers, 6 submarines and other small craft | is his program. Views concurred ic by ~ other members of board. Says cepital ~ ships would gain backbone of Navy. Dreadnoughts should be forty-four thou- . sand tous displacement with sixteen inch . guns. Battle cruisers should be thirty two thousand five hundred tons displace- ' ment with eight sixteen inch guns. | Scout cruisers to be ten thousand tons | manned with eight-inch guns. Three | types of submarines are recommended | to keep up with the times. | TELEGRAMS 1 ST. CROIX STA.ICN. E Washington, Feby. 28th.—President | Wilson, in leply to the british Premier’s . Note the Adriaiic Quesuor, adherczs to | his previous decision that unless the | terms of settlement return to the pro- . vision of the agreenient oi Deceuber | 9th, he must take under serious cunsid- . eration the withdrawal of the Treity of . Versailles and the French Alliance from . tne Senate. The response of the Pre- mier was despatched from London, to- I day but had not been received tcnight ' in Washington. The exchanges oi the . subject, including the December agice- ment and the subsequent communication to Jugo-Slavia last month by thLe British and French Premiers were made public today by the Senate Devartment. Christiania, Feb. 26th. Russian Ice- brakers with General Miller, Governor- General at Archangel, Members o' the former White Government and ibout | two thousand tugitives, have arrived f at Hammerfest from Archangel. I Buenos Aires, Feb. 26th.—Forty trains ' and hundreds of coastal boats are held ’ up by a strike of tugboat crews. Half | a miiilion tone of cereal for expori are | stored in the port warehouse. l London, Feo. 26th—In the House of | Comrmons yesterday, the Insurance Bill | was read a second time withoui a divi- E sion, althouzh a good deal ¢f opposition ‘ was shown by the Labour Party. TLhe ’ Bill proposes to extend insurance on a | contributory basis, to substantially the | whole employed population belween tiae ‘ ages of sixteen and seventy. irdus- | tries may contract, but by se.ting | out special schemes enforeing eaual | or greater benefits only impo tant ‘ excepiions to its operation are agri- | cultural workers and servants and ir lre- ’ land the Bill applies only to workmen | in trades now insured under existing | act. I'he benelits will be fifteen shil ings | for men, and twelve shillings a weei for | women. mployers and employees a‘e to | make similar contributions, in the ca:e of i women two shillings halfpenny, the {tate | supplying one-third. ltis estimated that ! nearly twelve million persons are affected, | and the actual cost to the State will b be- | tween three and four miilion sterling, as | against one and a quarter million row, | London, Feb. 26th.~~'1‘he_ Soviet Com- | missary for Foreign Affairs bhas de- ' spaiched a Note to the United Siates,