any candidate
for
president
or ever
ex-
pressed
any
prelerence.
LONDON:
Moscow
wireless
. says
that
it
was
uranimousiy
decided
at
Confer
nce
of Baltie
States
at
Helsing-
fors
to accept plan for
neutralization
of
Baltic
Sea.
Final
details
to
be
given
later.
WEST
PALM
REACH:
Rodman
Wannamaker
of Philadelphia
and
five
others
of his party arrived late last night
after
having
spent
ftwenty-four
hours
during
storm
at
sea
in
a
siXx
passenger
seaplant
piloted by
Lieutenant
Comman-
der McCullough,
member
of
cr wof N.
C. 3 during
trans-Atlantic
flight.
Lack
of food and
water
most
severe
hardship.
Party left West
End Settlement
on Grand
Bahama
Island
yesterdav
expecting
to
return
to Florida
within two hours,
but
engine
trouble forced
them
to the
water.
After
r¢ pairs
were made
they succeeded
in resumine
flizht,
MIAMI:
t{hree
men
were
rescued
from
overturned
skiff in
Atlantic
four
miles
off
coast
by
bombing
plane
last
night.
As
there
were four
passengers
in
the
lane
two of
the
rescued
men
were
carried
ashore
on
wings
of
the
plane.
LONDON:
British
scientists
al'
.dis-
cussing
Marconi’s astounding
suggestion
that myster.ous
interruptions
to wireless
nowadays
are
probably
wireless
signais
from Mars:
Experts
of company
say it
would be easy
for
Martians,
probably of
more
advanced
civilization
than
we are
to work
out
some
of
our code
messages.
Pointed
out proof in fact
that record,
if
kept,
would
show
that
th-=se
interrup-
tions
would follow regular
progzram.
WASHINGTON:
Newspaper-
men
quote
R2ar
Admiral
Bullard,
1n
Charize
of
Naval
Commynications,
as
saying,
“*Marconi’s theory
is
possible’’.
Says
“*he does
: ot a‘firm to trueness
but
can-
not deny it’’.
:
{ELEGRAMS
;
ST. CROIX STATION.
Berlin,
Jan,
26th.—The
Pan-German
Press
joyfully prints
what it character-
izes as
‘‘the
manly
atti'ude
of
Holland
on sthe
question
of
the
extradition
of
former
Emperor
William.
London,
January
26th.
The
'‘West-
minster
Gazette’’
discussing
the
ques-
tion
of
HBolland’s
action
says:
“‘So-
ber
minded
Englishmea
must
%dmit
that
this
is
precisely
the
attitude
this
country
would
have
adopted
if
asked
to
surrender
a
fugitive
under
similar
circumstances,
for,
howhere
is the
right
of asylum
more
rigorously
upheld
than
in Great. Britain”’.
The
“Standard’’
says:
‘‘The
Allies
cannot
consent
o abandon
the irial,
merely
be-
cause
of Holland’s
objections
on
the
ground that hitherto
no
written interna-
tional code
had
actually
denounced
the
acts
which
the Kaiser committesd.
iondon,
Jan. 27th.—Sugar
in stock
on
ST.
GGROLE
AN LS
the
24th instant
was
52.000
tons.
Last
year 244,000 tons,
Washington,
Jan. 26th.—By
a
vote
of
nine to five, the Senate
Military Commit-
tee have approved
the provisions
provid-
ing for
compulsory
militay training
of
boys between
thé
ages
of eighteen
and
twenty-one inclusive.
New
York,
Jan.
26th.—A
continued
decline in foreign bills
is
expéeted,
and
no surpr.se
will be felt at any further
de-
moralizatien,
the situation
eing
accept-
ed
as
inevitable and the
ogical
cutcome
of conditions
from
which
no
immediate
velief is promisad.
Franes
have
failen
to
the equivalent of four pence,
the
depre-
ciation
“eing equivalent
to
fifiy-eight
percent.
Lives reprt’sent
a
shrinking
of
slightly over'seventy
per cent,
The
Ger-
man
mark
is
quoted
slightly
over
one
half penny,
against
the
normal
shilling.
Austrian
crowns,
which
were
once
of
the
same
value as
francs
and
lires,
are
now almost
valueless,
they being
quoted
at
a
fractior
under
a
third of on 2 cent,
London,
Jan. 27th.—According
to
an
official
statement
issued
by
the
Soviet
Government
at Moscow,
the
Bolsheviki
Peasant
Corps
has reached
the
Chinese
|
frontier in the vicinity of Kobdo,
on
the-
|
western
border
of Mongolia.
.
. Berlin,
Jan.
27th.—Herr
Mathias
Erz-
|
berger,
the Minister of Finance,
has been
|
shot
and wounded
in
the
shouider,
his
|
assailant,
a
s-udent,
being
arrested.
|
The
wound
is deelared
not
to be
a serious-
|
one,
but an
operation
will be
necessary
o
'
to
cxtract
the bullet.
:
Helsingtors,
Jan.
28th. —Reports
from
|
Dorpart state
that
a
revolt
has
broken
|
out among the Red. Garrison
at
Moscow.
|
This
was possibly
the motive for the
re-
|
moval
of the
Pzople’s
Commissaries
to
|
Tver,
which
was previously reported
as
due
to the outbreak
of plague.
Paris,
Jan.
27th,
A
rleply to the
re-
|
fusal
by
Holland,
to
comply
with
the
Allies”
demand
for
the
surrender
.of
rormer
Emperor
William, was
the
first
subjeet
taken
up by the
Council of
Am-
bassador:,
created
to carry
on
the
uo-
tinished
routine
of the Supreme
[ ouncil
of the Peace
Conference,
which
was dis-
banded
last
week.
It was
decided
that
French
legal
experts
on
all
aspects
of-
-
case
will
prepare
a repiy,
but
the
discussion
in the
“Jouncil did
not disclose
the -trend
of opinion
among
the
mem-
|
bers,
except
that
it appeared
to be
the
|
view that
the legal phage
of the question
-
will become
che
chief one.
The
Council
1
was presided
over by Premier
Millerand.
Berlin,
Jan.
27th.—The
Wilhelm-
|
strasse
is
barricaded
and
under
guard |
by numeraus
troops.
A pairol
of
eigh- |
teen
armoured
cars,
wth
many
armed
troops, arrived last evening,
fook up posi-
tions in {ront of the Govi.
oundings
and
shut off all traffic.
The precautio:is
have
been estimulated,
in addition
to
the
as-
sault
on
Herr
Erzberger,
by
rumours
that the Monarchists
would
attemapt
an
insurrection
today on
the occasion
of
the
Yx -Keiser's
birthdey
gné
1k
Ile
gt
tack
veuld ke mrimariy divec.ec
ggairst
fPe
TReeTeRCErY
Propliste
e
¥
ceis.
NEW
YCRK.
Jer.
2&81h
JeS(;
Fievy Flerceg
Clesy
St Eswaerce
Jaere
rr. kil. 81%.106
Meal, Kilndried rer
100 fts §2.57
New
Seescn’s
Fork rer brl. §46.(0
Heavy
Mess
FPork rerbbl.
$44.00
Suvgar---Crystals
(Cenfirmed
by Fickers)
ger
100
11e,
85958
Mciasses
89° test pr 100 Ibs. no
quotation
(otten, Middling Uriand,
at Liverpco! per
Ib. 25 70-100 d.
Exchange,
New
York
and
Ic¢nden.
€0
days’
sight
$3.574
Exchange
New York and London,
sight
“
$3.593
LONDON,
Dee.
28th
1919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals duty paid price.
fixed by the Royal Commission
per ewts
104s.
od.
-106 s.
od.
Muscovado,
89°/- basis,
floating ferms
in
bond, Ditto duty paid. 635.
6d.-
955. od.
German
Beet 88°/¢ f.0.b."n0 further
sales
during
the
war
White
Java
sugar
cif
U.
Kingdom
cif
without
engagenent.
§
2¢.
White
Java
Sugar,
cit
Uvurnited King-
dom if arrives
before
27th
L«cen ker
&5/
Demerara Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling
Red
pe:
- ewt
128s.
od.
130s. od.
Cotto
Medium Fine
Sea
Island,
at
l.iv
erpool nominal
per Ib.
Bank
of England
rate
of
Disccunt
per
cent.
6.
Consols
51 #
Three per
cent
rentes
in Paris
Fes.
58.85.
All prices
subject
to correction.
r:
blo
®
- üblication.
IT
is he~eby brought
to public
no-
tice
that
the
Government
has,
this date,
authorized REv. MARTIN
F.
MULLIGAN to perform
civil-
religious
functions
in
the
Munici-
pality of St. Croix.
Governmert
of
the
Virgin Islands
of
the
United
States,
St.
Croix,
January.
13,
1920.
C. C. TIMMONS,
Government
Secretary
w
FOR RENT.
The Dwelling House At Estate Norihside
completely furnished—situated
near
the sea.
Fine surrounding
scenery,
and
a short distance
from town.
For particulars
apply to
C. E. HAGEMANN.
Frederiksted,
St. “roix, V. 1., January
15th 1920.