Have
A Good
Smoks
-
Just opened
up a.fine assortment
of
Pto.
Rico and
Jamaica
Ci-
gars.
Secare
in time
your Supplies
for
Christmas.
Christiansted,
17’ Dec.
1920.
A. R. Mc Intosh.
§EOCAL.
A very lurge
mail
was
received
yester-
day from
the States
per
's.
s.
‘‘Guiana.’”’
!
MUSIC NOTES.
.
The
Naval
Band
presenis
another
brand
new
program
this
week.
Three
of the
tunes
hayse
strange
names,
but
they
ar= all new'to
Christiansted’s
music
public.
The
march
B! Pecit
Majars,
is
a
Porto
Riecan
march
and
means:
‘The Lit-
tle Major. lhe overture
L 2 Domino Noir
in English
would read
The Black
Domi-
no.
It is written
by
a French
composer
who
lived
in
the
sevenfeenth
ecentury
and is best known
(0 the
musical
worid
as
Daniel
Auber.
I”Addioc
Napoli
is
simply,
¥arewell
to
Naples,
=
The
concert
for last
Sunday
night
did
not
rove obe
the
last, soit
isn’t
wise
to predici again.
This
week
we have
new
moon,
the
weather
promises
to be
fair,
so there’ll be
no
exeuse
for not
coming
on the whari,
o heai
another
brand
unew
-
program;
for good
music
puts
sunshine
into the
heart.
‘
M. N.
TELEGRAM -.
BT. CROIX STATION.
London,
Dee.
15th.
=Mr Llovd George
-
today
senrt
a reply
to
the
recent
request
by the Rev. O’Flanagan,
acting President
of the
Sinn
{ein, that time be
accorded
in which
tc
consult
with Professor
De-
Valera and
Mr
Arthur Griffith, founder
sos ihe Sinn
Fein
and
now under
arrest,
respecting
the
endeavours
being
made,
to bring about
a
fruce
in Ireiand.
The
Premier
in
his
reply
informed
Father
O’Flanagan
that facilities
would be offer-
ed him
for seeing
Mr
Arthur
Griffith.
-
Regarding
Professor
De Valera
he wrote,
*‘The ordinary methods
of communication
with
America
are
fully
open
to you”
Continuing,
the
Premier
said,
°‘‘l sin-
cerely trust tnat
as <he outcome
0! activ-
ities of all
men
of
peace
and
goodwill,
the policy of
those
who
seek
to attain
their political ends
by
violence
will
be
fully abandoned
and
the
people
of
Ire-
land will be free
to return
to
those
con-
_ sfitutional methods
by which
alone their
reasonable
aspirations
can
be
attained.
[ am heartily at one with you in
hoping
Sd
e
AV
that
the
comirg
Season
of Christmas
will aliay the passions
which
are
produc-
ing the present
hideous
and
unchristian
strife and
so pave
the
way for ffank and
peaceful
discussions
with
the
selecied
representatives
of
the
llrish
pevple,
which
are
esseniiai
to
a just and
reason-
able settlement.’”’
.
London,
Dec.
14th. —ln
the
House
of
Commons
today in the
course
of
the
de-
bate
on the
defense
estimates,
Mr -Lioyd-
(George
announced
that
whatever
the
changes
in
the Greek
Government
were,
the
guardianship
of
the
Dardaunelle
Straits
would
remain
under
eontrol
of
Great
Britain,
France
and lialy, regard-
less
of whether ex-King
Constantine
re-
mained
in
Greece,
or 3.
Veaizeios
came
back.
Replying
to eriticisms
on
the
ex-
cessive
cost of the oeccupation
of Mesopo-
tamia,
the Premier
chalienged anyvbody to
say
that Grear
gritain oughi
to
abandon
the
mandate
for Mesonotamia.
He
de-
clared
that having accepted
the mandate,
Great Biitain was bound
to shoulder
the
initial eost
and
added
we
have
made
it
quite
clear
that
if
rien
deposits
exist
there
it will be for the betterment
of the
whole
worid
and
we wiii hold the
bal-
ance quite fairly between
all
nations.
Geneva,
Dee.
16th.—China
today
took
rank
among
the
principal
powers
di-
recting
the affairs of
t‘he world
through
its
entry intc
the council
of
the
l.eague
¢
1 Naticr:= in suecession
to
Greece.
The
selection
of
China
had
been
discounted
lurgely,
since
the
Assembly
had
previ-
ously adopted
the
recommendations
that
another
elective
member
be
allotted
to
Asia.
It was
doubtiu!
up
to
the
last
moment,
however,
whether
the member
who for the past few days
had
been
ad-
vocating
Slav or Scandinavian
represen-
tation, would not sueceed
with fheir argu
ment
that
the
Asiatic
races
could
not
expect
two places
on
the Council,
while
two important European
countries
were
not
représented
at
all.
The
majority
of ihe delegaies,
however,
held
to their
implied promise,
but
the
success
cf
Chi-
na
was
iargely
due
to
the
perscnal
strength
which
DLr.
Wellington
Koo
of
the
Chirese
delegauion
has
acquired
in
the Assembiy.
Won.an
made
her debut
in the League
of Naticns
today and
was
cordially
received
and
welcomed
in
the
Assembly.
In the
discussion
c¢n
action
to suppress
white siave tratfic,
Mademo:i-
selle Forthaumer,
a
substitute
for
Den-
mark,
took
the
floor
and
in the purest
English gave
the
delegates
an
exampie
of clearness
and
conciseness
which,
if
1t
bad
come
earlier, might
have
shortened
tne
meeting
of the Assembly.
Austna
was
electéed
a
memkber
of the League
of
Nations by the Asgsen:bly tcday.
The
elec-
tion of Austria was without ofposition
35
votes were cast
in favour of her admission,
Two
memkers
were
sbsent
and
four
abstainea
from
voting.
Tlhe
vote
for
the admission
of Austria
came
after
an
unexpected
passage
at
arms
between
M.
Guiseppi
Motta,
Switzerland,
and
M.
Viviani,
representing
France.
M.
Motta
speaking
for
the
commiitee
re-
called
the
rejection
of
Germany’s
ap-
plication
tfor
admission
by
the
Peace
Conference,
saying that Switzerland
had
alwavs
regretted
it and
that
therve
was
now
three
places
vaeant
in
the
Lea-
gue
which ought
to be
filled by the
Un-
ited
States,
Russia
and
Germany.
At
the
mention
of
Germany
M.
Viviani
sprang
up
and
asked
for
the
floor
and
at
the eonclusior
of M.
Motta’s
speech,
in which
the
the
Swiss delegate
appeal-
ed
to the
Assembly
for
justice,
M.
Vi-
viani mounted
the
tribune and
launched
into a fervid defence
of
the
French
view
point.
It
was
soon
apparent
that
the
Assembly
was
with him
and
hiz+¥emarks
were
greeted
with
frequent
applause.
When
he
descended
from
the
tribune
he received
the
greatest
ovarion
of
the
Asaembly.
The
oting for the admission
of Austria,
whi-h
immediately
followed
was
by
nomieal
roil
call
the
delegates
being asked
whether
they
were
in favour
or against
adniission,
some answering
.in
French
and
som
in English.
London,
Dec.
14th.—1In
the
Scottish
prohibition
vote, which
has
been
going
on
now for spme
weeks,
Aberdeen
has
given
a
majority
in
favour
of
‘‘no
change’’ in 18
wards.
The exception
to
the general rule is
Scotiznd
was
turnish-
by Rahaen
where
the fishtng
population
of
the place
carried
a ‘‘no license’’
ma-
Jority
by
dd to
29.
Therve
is
oniy
one
license
in the parish.
The
''No chonge
majority at Fraserburgh
was
only 40-75.
“"EPIGRAMS AND WITTY SAYINGS.”'
The
man who believes
that
all
women
are
saints
1s
not
as likely to believe
that
all
men
are
fools,
for the just and
suffiei-
ent
reasoml
§hat
he
1s
one of them.
A cat
has
claws
to seratch,
a dog
has
teeth
to bite;-but
a
woman
relies
on her
eyes.
Just
a
word
to
the
wise.
Never
by
any.word
or
action
show
that you have
the least
bit of intelligence.
Alwsvs.re-
member
that
the
foot
was
one
of
the
wisest
in the king’s
retinue.
AT
Alsrge Sicek
{r "% o)
Kew Lolnbia
Fecords
4
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@5
on sgke
JOHN ALEXANDER.
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