EOCAL.
The S:'S.
Marina arrived here
on
Szt-
urday,
landed
mails and passenzers,
and
sailed for Frederiksted
ai
2
p.
m.,
from
where
she
sailed for Porto
Rico
via
St.
Thomas
at 1.00 p. m. yesterdav.
The
Raporel
S.S.
Bridgetown
called
at
this
port yesterday,
landed
a
small
quantity
of cargo,
and
one bag of
mail,
and
sailed
for
the
islands
in the
after-
noon.
;
American
schooner
‘‘Zurah”
with
cargo
of salt and two
bags
mail
arrived
here
from Antigua yesterday.
;
The Creole
sustained
some damage-to
her
s:ils
in the
rough
weather
of
last
Thursday
and
was
force® to
put
in
to
Frederiksted.
She
arrived here
on
Sat-
urdry
and
is expected
to be ready
to
sail
for St. Thomas
tomorrow evening.
Patrons
of the theatre
should
not
fail
to note
the programme
for this evening’s
show.
Turn
out
in large
numbers
and
emphasize
your
preference
for the
Maon-
day
night
performances
which
are
un-
doubtedly wnat the majority like best.
<Football.
The
football
mateh
played
yesterday
on the Oval, Frederiksted,
between
the
Merry
Juvenile Club
of this town
and
a
picked
elevan
of
the St.
Patrick’s
Club
was
won
by
the
West
End
team,
the
score
being two goals
to one.
The
Fred-
eriksted
players
were,
however,
grown
up young men aud
the tcams
were,
there-
fore,
unequally
matched.
the Christian-
sted Club being composed
of boys 14 to 15
years
of
age
who
were nevertheless
too
sportsmaniike
and game
to
bhack
out
af-
ter
they reached
the ground and
found
the odds against
them.
‘
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Paris.
Feb.
20th.—The
British
Govt.
has
conditionally accepted
the
French
proposal
to allow the
Reparations
Com-
mission
to deal
with the
German
reply
regarding
reparation
payments
this year
aad
reformation of the
German
finance
it was stated.
The
vrincipal reservation
made
by
tae British is that
the contribu-
tion of the German reply is referred
back
to
the
Reparations
Commission.
A
meeting
of the Foreign
Ministers
of the
Allies
to settle
this
question
is awaiting
cnly
the
formation
of
the
new
Italian
ministry.
The
Govt.
is willingto
leave
the
entire
question
of organizing
the In-
ternatinnal
economic
conference
at
Genoa
to the League of Nations,
it
was
said this morning by
a high official
with
referenee
to a report
from London
that
idea
was
gaining
ground.
The
Frenche
a T LLLIX AVis
representatives
at
the
Cannes
confer-
onee,
at which
the Genoa
meeting
wag
decided
upon
had -advocated
the coopera-
tion.of
the
League
of Nations
in the
ar-
rangements
for: the ‘economic conference
this
official said, %nd the idea
had
been
abandoned
only.bßcause
the presence
of
representatives
of the
United
States
was
hoped
for and
complications
were
feared
if the conference
were organizad
by the League.
London,
Feb.
20th. —Labour
scored
another
big
victory
at
the
polls
today
when the labour
eandidate
C. C. Ammon
ciptured
the seat
for the North
division
of Camberwell.
He polled 7,854, against
6,719 for the conservative
Mellor in
the
Bye-election.
The
last
election
in
this
constitucney
was
in
1918,
when
the
coalition unionist
potled 6,910,
the liber-
als 2,777
and
labour 2,175.
Paris,
Feb.
21st.—Louis
P.
Loucheur
Ex-Minister ;of Liberated
Regions
de-
clared
last
night
it was
his
belief
that
France
never
would
be
able
to
pay
a
sou
of
her
debt
to the
United
States.
This
statement
was.
made
at
Lyons at
a banquet
of the
Industrial
Commercial
and
Agricultural
Associations.
‘I say
plainly that
I believe'we
never will be
able
to
pay
a
sou
to
America.
I
say
it
because
there
aré
Americans
here
who
1hope
will
cable
mv
werds
across
the
sea
we
never
can
pay
the
fifteen
billion francs
we
owe
America
with the
added
interest.
America has
all the goid
and
we
could
never
pay in gools
on
ac-
count
of
the customs
barriers
raisad
by
the [Tnited States
itself’’, he
said.
He
added
that Mr. Lloyd George had agreed
in
principle to
cancel
France’s
debt
to
Great
Britain
on condition
that
the Uni-
ted States
cancel
Great
Britain’s
debt.
Referri~g
to the
question of rdparations
M. Loucheur said France
was determined
to make Germany pay to the utmost.
Londou,
Febh.
21st.—Reuters
Johan-
nesburg
Correspondent
cables
that
the
strike of the coal miners
and
the staff of
the
electric station
at Vereenining
was
broken
today by the
return
of
as many
strikers
as
were wanted
tc the Cornelia
colliery and
of thirty-one
of the
operat-
ing staff
to
the
Victoria
Falls
power
station.
There
has
also been
a resump-
tion of
work in
the brick
tile industry.
The position
of the
gold fields
strike
is
unchanged,
except for a
slight increase
in the number
of men who have returned
to work.
Norfolk, Va., Feb.2lst.
Thirty four men
were killed, eight were
injured seriously
and
three
were uninjured,
or only slightly
bruised,
when
the
army
=irship
Roma,
with her
ecrew
aod
a number
of civilians
totalling 45 in all aboard,
plunged
today
from
a thousand
feet
or
more from
the
air to the ground at the Hampton
Roads
Naval Base.
The airship capsized
across
a high tension electric line and burst
into
a
rvolling furnace
of
blazing
hydrogen
gas.
Long
after
dark tonight,
maay
hours
after
her fall,
the ship
was
still
a
mass
of flames
from
end
to
end.
The
fire
feeding an
the million
cubie feet
of
gas
that had distended
the great bag for
the flight.
Barely
a dozen
of more
than
two
score
men aboard
had
been
picked
up alive.
Oae died enroute
to a hospita!.
All of those
who
survived
the
fire
es-
caped
by jumping
as
the ship struck
the
others,
pinned
in
the hull
beneath th
fallen bag
were
burned
to
death.
The
heat of the fire fought
back
the
rescue:s
for hours.
Washington,
Feb.
21st.—The
accident
to
the Roma oceurred
wken
the
vertical
controls
were
carried
away,
Captain
Doyle
of the
N val
Station
at
Hampten
Road said
in
a telephone conversation
la
=
today
with Rear
Admiral Mofiett
at
the
Navy
Department.
This
he said
caused
the dirigible
to dive nose
first
aod iniis
deseent
it struck
a high tension
electric
wire, causing
the ship
to cateh
fire.
Cav-
tain
Doyle
reported
that
thirty
eight
were
believed
dead
and
that
ten
or
twelve had escaped.
Belfast,
Feb.
21st.—While
the
great
mzajority
of
the
Unionists
captured
in
the
recent
raids
in
Northern
Ireland
have
been
released,
the
Ulster
Homo
Office
announced
today
that
26
of
tue
kidnapped
men
had
not
yet
been
lie-
tarned.
Os
these
men
apparently
stiil
held
in custody,
14
are
class
A special
constable
and
eleven
class
B
speciais.
The
other missing
man
is Ivan
Carson,
former High Sheriff of Fermanagh,
wiio
was kidnapped
at Clady
or February
Bth.
Mr. Carson’s wife received
a letter
frow
him
the
following day stating
he
was
well,
but
not revealing the
place of
his
detention.
Sydney,
Feb.
21st.—It
was
reported
here today that plans
are
maturing for a
world wide cooperative
wheat
marketing
organization
which
will eveatually
con-
trol
the
Canadian,
United
States
and
Australian ecrops.
The
Chairman
of the
wheat poll,
is proceeding
to London
and
thence
will go te fCanada
and
the
United
States to
consult
with jthe organizations
in
those
countries concerning
the plan.
London, Feb.
21st.—Speakiog
at
Not-
tingham
tonight
Sir
John
Simon,
who
was
a member
of the Asquith
Ministry,
said
the
shadow
of
death
was
resting
upon
the House
of Commons
and
most of
its
members
were
gloomily preparing
like condemned
men
to be taken
back
tc
the place
from whence
they
came.
London,
Feb.
21st.—Twenty-five
mil-
lion pounds
sterling will be provided
ifor
in the next budget
estimates
to cover
six
months
interest
on *the debt
to the Uni-
ted
States.
This
announcement
wus
made
in
today’s
parliamentary
papers.
It is pointed
out
that 25,000,000
will not
necessarily
be the maximum
amount
pay-
able in interest
to the
TTnited States
dur-
ing the next financial year.
Dublin,
Feb.
21st.—Tke
French
Gov-
ernment
today jinformed
Germany
that
it
had requested
Italy to
postpone
the
econcmic
conference
at
Genoa,
for
the