We
are
inforned
thai
tha Creole
wiil
bz dispatehed
at
the
usaal
hour
this
af-
ternoon
with
mail-for
3t.
Thomas
and
Porto
Rico,
but
that
there
will be
no dis-
pateh for
New York as this
mail wili be
closed
to-morrow
to
go forward
by
the
Fort St. George,
as
per notice
elsewhere
in this issue
-
Theatre
patrons
are reminded
that
the
““Moonriders’”>
will
be
continued
this
evening,
next before
the
iast
show
Correspondence
Christiansted,
St. Croix,
Feb.
18th 1922.
Dear Mr. Editor:—
Reading
through the columns
of the
Herald
of Feb.
18th,
I came
across
the
Program
for Wednesday,
22nd,
Washing-
ton’s Birthday, comprising
several
sports
of which I took-rote,
but
the
most
essen-
tial
sport
to
complete
the
Program
is
missing
and that is Foot Racing,
and
to my
knowiedge
we
have
a
so-called
Athletic
toam
here
which
is suppose
to take part
in
all sporis.
Why don’t the
nembers
come
out
and
show
their
sportlike
spirit?
. Sports
on
the
whole
are
nothing
dis-
oraceful,
therefore
Dreadnought
boys|
advocate
strongly
you
rush
a chailenge
now
to the Athletic
team
co select
their
best
runners
to compete
with yvou; for as
far sI have
learnt
Messrs.L.Hender-
son,
Edwards,
and
W.
ulotta
are
the
wonderful
runners
for
the
Athletic.
Therefore
strike
the
iron
while
ii’s hot,
and
take the i.urels
from
hein.
Thanking
you Mr. Editor
with the bope
of
seding
this
good
sport added
to
the
program.
I am.
respectfully,
AN OLD SPORTSMAN.
TELEGR=A M.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Helsingfors
Firland,
Feb.
14th.—M.
Ritauvori,
Finish
Minister of the interior
was shot
three
times
with
a revolver
as
he was alighting from
his
motor
car
out-
side
his residence
here tonizht.
He died
«
while being taken
to
the hospital.
The.
alleged assasin,
Kruest
Taanderfelt,
was
arrested.
The
authorities
declare
he is
demented.
;
New York,lsth.-The
raw sugar market
was steadier
early today
and
spot prices
of Cubas
were established
on the basis
of
2.1 16 cost
and freight,
equal
to 3.67 for
centrifugal
with sales
of 40,000
bags
of
old crop
at that level.
There
was
a fair
trade in
raw sugar
futures
and prices
at
midday
were
unchangsd
to
ten
poin‘s
lower, all
refiners
now
listing at
5.00
¢.
for
fine
granulated.
Refined
futures
were without fransactions.
:
Madrid, Feb.
15th
—Three
Britisa
air-
men,
Richardson,
Miine and
Ortweiler,
were
killed
yesterday
afternoon
at
tie
5 3
UhßodXA Vis
Quarirve Vento irpiane,
just outside
Ma-
drid, when
an
airdrome
in
which
they
were
flying ecansized
and
crasnzd
from
an altitude
of 91 feet.
Two
of the men
died instantly and
the third
a short
time
afterwaras
in a
hospital.
The
airplane
whic
was intended
for service
in
Moro-
co,
was
to have been
blessed
today in the
presence
of Queen
Viecioria.
~ Montevideo,
Feb.
15ih.—The
- body
of
Sir Ernest
Shackleton
was
to be
em
ark-
ed
on the
British S. S,
‘'Woodville’”’ to-
day for
conveyance
to South
Georgia
la-
land,
where
the
tfainous explorer died
on
January
sth.
The
Uruguavan
Govern-
ment
will render
high
honours
and
a
warship
will escort
the ""Woodvilie’”
(o
sea, firing a farewell salute.
Covered
with
the
Rritish flag. the
body lay
yesterday
before
the
alter of the
English
Churen.
[here
was
a profusion
oif floral tributes
and
the
Uruguayan
Government sent
a
huge wreath,
wrought
io
represent
oak,
ombu
and
paim
leaves,
inscribed
'KI
Uruguay
a Sir Ernest
Shack!2ion”.
The
oak signified England,
the ombu
Urugaay
and
the palm the explorers triumphs.
Bombay,
Feb.
15th.——aandhi,
leader
of
the
non-cooperationists
movement,
announceed
that
he
begzan
last
Sunday
a
five
days fast
as
penaice
for Lthe
receat
disturbance
in Chauri
Chauri.
Je
says
he wiil regard
his
{ast
punishment
for
those
who committed
the
‘‘brutal
mur-
ders’’
which
no
amount
of
provocation
could
possibly
justify.
Gandini
advises
those zuilty of participating in the “Jhau
ri-Chauri
fighting
in
which
seventeen
native policemen
were
Kkilled, voluntarily
to
surrender
and
confess
their
crimes,.
He
says
he regards
this
itragedy
as
the
third
warning
from
God
against
the
hasty
embarkation
on
mass
Civil Disobe-
dience
and
as
his bitterest
cup.of
humil-
iation,
but
he
deems
such
humiliation,
ostifacism
or
even
death
preferable
to
any countenancing
of untruth
or violence
The Hague,
Feb.
15th. —The
peace
pal-
ace
w~as the scene
today
of the inaugural
session
of the
permanent
court
in inter-
aational
justice.
The
event
was hailel
by
the
adherents
of pacifist
ideals
as
a
new
mile
stone
in
the
evolutionary
progress
of
the
world
toward
peace,
or. in the
words
of
Lord
Curzon
‘‘The
beginningof
a
'ne
7
era
of
peace
and
coneord among
naiions’’.
At the opening
gession,
the
juadges
were
to
take
tne
oath
to
fulfill their
offices
‘‘honourably
and faithfully, impartially
and
consecien
fiously”’. In their future siltings they are
axpected
not only to clear
up such
doubt-
ful points of International
Law that may
come
before
them,
but also
to create
laws,
whenever
their
need
is apparent,
iike the
praetors
of ancient
Rome.
The first
meet-
ing was held
in the
wreat
Hall of Justice
a Chapel-like chainober,
the carved oaked
walls of which
have
not as
yet
assumed
the
darker
tinge
of
age, but
the
ap
pointments
of
which
combine
to
give
an
appropriate
atmosphere
of
judicial
solemnity.
The
members
of
the
court
represen:
twelve
nationalities
of
both
the
Bastern
and
Western
world.
The
judges in accor-‘ance
with the law possess
“the
qualifications
required
in
their
respective
countries
_ for
apbpeintments
to the
highest
judicial office,
or are
ju-
risconsui
of recognized
compeience
in
International Law.””
The
members
pre-
sent
are
the. present
Chief
Justice
Rer-
nard
Loder es Helland,
Mr. Rafael
Cene-
vea of Spain,
Dioris'o
Anziletii
of [ialy
lLord
Robert
Finlay
¢f
Great
Britain,
John
Basset
Moore
of
the United States
Pr.
Max
Huber
of Switzeriand,
Didrik
Nyholm of Denmark,
Dr.
Oda
of Japan
and Dr.
Andre
Weise
of
Ireland.
The
other
iwe judges,
Dr.
Barboso
of Brazil
and Dr. Antonio De Bustamente
of Cuba,
were unable
to come
to the Hague.
-
Montreal,
Feb.
15th ~ The
Bank
of
Montreal shareholders
at
a meeting here
today ratified
the
preposition
placed
be-
fore them by the
Buard
of
Directors
to
take over
the merchant=
bank of Canad::.
“he meeting lasted
but (wenly
minutes:
no questions
were
asked
and
no
discus
sion
took
place.
Sir
Vincent
Meredith
made
a short
explanation of the situation
advising
the shareholders
that the direct-
ors thought
it
was
their
duty
to prevent
the coliapse
of the
Merchants
Bank
and
they thought
the
terms
arranged
were
not untair.
The
vote ior acceptance
was
101,089,
with
none
votingz against.
The
Merchants
Bank
shareholders
voted
to
accept
the offer of the
bank
of Montreal
last Wednesday.
The
deal
only
now
re-
quires
the sanction
of
the minister
to
be-
come
con:plete.
Paris,
Feb.
156th.
The British
Govern-
ment
is understood
to have
accepted
the
French
proposals
that
the
reparations
comwission
fix
the
amount
«to
be
paid
by
Germany
in
1922
and
that
the fin-
ance
ministers
meet
to
decide
on
the
basis
of division of
the
payments
among
the Aliies.
:
Bombay,
Feb.
15th--Unconfirmed
re-
ports
reached
here
today
that
10,000
Bhii- tribemen
were
e¢ngaged
in
an
out-
break
formented
by
followers
of Gand-
hi,
Nationalist
Leader,
in
the
Etarah
jungie districts
near
Godhra.
‘i'ne
Bhils
who have
a notorious
record
for lawless-
ness,
are
said
to
have
been
invited by
the
banians
the
merchant
class,
who
exercise
considerabls
‘nfluence
in
this
distriet.
Constantinople,
Feb.
15th.—Mustapha
Kemal
Pasha,
head
of the Turkish
Na-
tionalist
Government,
has
announced
that in view of tbe
execlusion
of Turkey
irom
the
Genoa
conference,
the Angora
Government
will
refuse
to
accept
any
decisions
taken
at
the
conference
relat-
ing to Turkey,
unless
its representatives
are admitted.
New York, Feb
15th.—The steamship
Olympic, arriving today from Southamp-
ton brought
113 cases
of British gold val-
ued
at $4,307,000.
Most of
it was
con-
signed to Kuhn Loeb and Company.