by
the
people
of
the
Virgin Islands.
Thank
goodness
the
loeal
legislative
machinery
hasn’t
the
power
if it
has
the will to touch
these
matters,
and
we
are safe
from being biased
to buy where
our
means
will
not
allow.
An
advice
that might help the
situatior:
is that the
local
dealers
bring
down
their
prices,
dry goods
we
mean,
io meet
the ability
of
the
consumer
to pay:
there
will still
be
a decent
profit
at
that.
We shall
re-
turn
to this subjoet
edi orially,
and
will
be glad
to hear
from others
on it
LLOCAL.
Lne
Raporel steamship
W.
M. Tupper
from
New
York arrived
at
Frederiksted
Saturday
morning last,
and
at this
port
ncan
the same
day.
She
sailed
yester-
d& _afternoon
taking mails
for
several
ofthe islands.
\
o
{he
Tadousac
called
here
Saturday
bringing the
week-end
St. Thomas,
Porto
Rico
and States
mail,
and returring at
4
p
m.
with outgoing mails
for tlie
same
piaces.
Owing
to
some
drawback
the
Mys ery
did
not
make
the
usual
trip
trom
San
Juan
the
postmaster
here
ad-
vises.
the mail having
been
brought
over
by
the Tadousae
which
in all probability
will earry
the
mail tonight or
tomorrow.
This
placing of a Government
vessel
at
disposal
for carrying
mail
is a favor con-
ferred
bv the
Governor
ard
should
be
much
appreciated
“in
view
of
the
ae-
commodatioa
it affords.
Among
the passengers
to St.
Thomas
by
the
Tadousac
were
Despatching
Sec-
retary Fox.and Capt.
Lowell,
Command-
ing Officer of the Marine Detachment.
~=<ording to a notice published
by
the
editor in Kriday’s issue,
West End
News
7ould
be discontinued
after July 31st.
Movie patrons
and
admirers
of
Eimo
the Fearless
will have
an opportunity
to-
night of seeing
one of the
most
interest-
ing ex
ibitions irom
this
famous
serial
which will soon
be
concluded.
See
pro-
gramme
advertised
in this issue.
The
MNative
Brass
Rand
rendered
an
exceilent
concert
to
a large gathering
on
the Wharf last night.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
July 28th.—Sir Richard
Coop-
er Unionist,
in
the
House
of
Commons
vesterday
asked
Lieut.
Col.
Amerv Par-
liamentary
and
Financial
Secretary.
to
‘the
Admiralty,
if he
had any official in-
formation
concerning
the
alleged
divul-
‘gences
by an
official
on
the staff of Earl
Kitchener,
the
British
War
Minister,
who
was
lost
in
the
sinking
of
the
st
BRI X
A
¥V
18
““Hampshire’’ in
1916,
of
secret
infor-
mation” rasp-cting
the
intendad
trip of
the
Hampshire
to
Russia.
Col.
Amery
said
that
no
such
information
was
in
possession
of the
Admiralty ard that
no
facts
connected
with
the
loss
of
the
‘‘Hampshire’’ were being withheld from
the public.
The
question of Sir Richard
probably
was
occasioned
by
the
recent
publication
in a
London periodical of an
allegation
purporting
to
explain
the
sinking of
the
‘"Hampshire’”’ with
Earl
Kitchener
on board.
Paris,
July 28th.
—France
has
inform-
ed
the
British Govt
that
the
question
of sending reinforcements
to
Upper Sile-
sia
must
be
disposed
of
satisfactorily
bafore
Franch
representatives
can
at-
tenda meeting
of
the
Ailied Supreme
Council
on
August
4th,
at
which
it
is
planned
to
discuss
the
entire
Silesian
question.
.
L.ondon,
July 28th.—The
Turkish
Na-
tionalist
have
lecided
to
evacaate
the
Ismid peninsula,
says
an
exchange
tele-
graph
despatch
from
Adabazar,
at the
base
of the
peninsula
whieh
lies
to the
east
of Constantinople
betwe2n
the
Sea
of Marmora
and
the Black Sea.
New
York,
July
28th.—Ths
raw
su-
gar market
was
firm
early
today.
Af-
ter sale
of
126 000 bags
ot
Cuba’s
had
been
made
at 3
cents
cost
and
freigit,
equal
to 4,61
for centrifugal,
the Cuban
Committee
advanced
the
price
to
3%
cents.
Additional
sales
of
10,000
tons
were
made
to
the
United
Kingdom.
Raw sugar
futures
were
firmer on
cov-
ering, owing
to the
firmness
in the spot
market,
and
prices
at
midday
were
4
to
10
points
net
higher.
No
changes
occured
in ra2fined
sugar.
London,
July
28th.—The
report
that
the
Turks
have
approached
the
Allies
with the purpose
of obtaining a cessation
of
hostilities
between
them
and
the
Greeks
is
unfounded.
according
to infor-
mation
received
in official circles
here.
Riga, luly 28th.—No‘iceable
decreases
in the
spread
of cholera during
the past
fortnight
are
reported
in
the
Moscow
“Pravda’.
T'h>
newspaper
says
the
to
tal registration
of sufferers from the dis-
ease,
since
the
beginning,
of this year,
were
approximately
35,000
a considera-
ble
increase
over
the previous
announce-
ment
but
the
newspaper
says
this is due
to
a delay
in filing the
papers,
most
of
which
vere
for June.
No new outbreaks
of
the
disease
have
been
veported
in
Moscow
and Petrograd,
according
to the
*“Pravda’, and they
are
now considered
safe.
as
only
six
new
cases
were
re-
poried in as
many
months.
Cool
weath-
eris
said
to
have
aided
in
restricting
the epidemics
spread.
ALlondon,
July
28th.—Germany
wiil
abide by the
decision
of
the
Allied
Su-
preme
Council
relative
to
the
question
of the
transportation
ofa French
divi-
sion
acress
Germany
to
reinforce
the
French
troops
in Upper
Silesia,
accori-
ing to information
available here
today.
T
@&
German
Foreign
Minister,
Dr.
Rosen.
informed
the
French
Ambassa-
dor
in
Berlin
last
night
to this effect,
Germany’s
position
being
stated
in
a
note
handed
the
Ambassador,
the
ad:
vice states.
&
Washington,
July 28th.—Lord
North-
cliffe, the British
Publisher,
now
in the
UTnited
States,
in
a
statement
issued
here
tonight
said
that,
for reasons,
of
which
he
is
not
aware,
invitation
ex-
tended
to
him
to
stop
at
the
British
Embassy
and
to
attend
dinner
here
to-
night
had
been
Ywithdrawn.
Knowing
the
methnds
in
India
of
Lord Curzon,
the
British Foreign
Secretary,
the
state-
ment
declared,
‘'Lord Northcli?'e.
pretty
certain
that
Lord
Curzon M
adopted
those
methods
here’’
The
British
Embassy
was
in
semi-darkness
tonight and inquiries from
newspaper
re-
porters
as
to the faets connected
with the
cancellation
offLord
Northeliffe’s
visit
elicited
no
response,
beyona
the
mere
statement
that
there
was nothing
to be
said
in behalf of che Embassy
or the Am-
bassador.
[t
was
learned
that
the
invi-
tation
to
Lord
Northcliffe
to make
his
home
at
the
Embassy
during
his
visi-
to Washinzton
was
extended
by Ambas-
sador
Geddes
several
months
ago
and
long
before
the
London Times criticized
Lord Curzon
as
an unfit§ person
to repre-
sent
Great
Britain
at
the disarmament
conference
called
by
Mr. Harding.
As
set
out
in
lLord Northeliffes
statement
tonight.
he
and
Sir
Auckland
Gecdes
have
been
personal
friends of long stand-
ing
and
it
was
understood
that the
ex-
tension
of the hospitality of the Embassy
to Lord
Northeliffe
and
his staff
was
on
a purely
personal footing.
Dublin,
July 28th.—An
air of
unusual
optimism
prevailed
in
Dublin
today.
Eamon
De Valera had
an informal
meet-
ing .with
some
of
his
colleagues,
after
which
it
was
confidently
stated
that
a
communication
from
him to
Mr. Lloyd
George might be expected
soon
upon
the
proposed
basis
of a conference.
It
was
also
declared
tihat another
meeting
be-
tween
De Valera
and Sir
James
Craig,
the
Ulster Premier,
was
imminent,
and:
that
an acceptable
solution
of the fina-
cial
difficulties
had
been
found
in
the
shape
of Ireland’s assuming
a
portion of
the
National
War
Debt.
The
Dubiin
“Evening
Herald”’
understands
ihat
matters
of tremendous
importance
were
discussed
by the
Daily Eirann
Cabirer
on
Wednesday,
and
that
'‘the stage
of
discussion
was passed
and
a
fateful hap-
py decision
reached’’.
London,
July 29th
-——While
1o
officia!
statement
thas
been
issued,
it
is
under-
stood
that
the
:onference
of Imperial
premiers
‘has
reached
an agreement
on
the
naval
policy of
the
Empire.
The
conference
reaffirmed
the scheine
where-
by each
Dominion
1s
responsible
for its
own defence coastally.