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ST. CROIX STA +tION.
London,
UDec.-2nd.—Mr.
Ross
Smith,
the
British
Aviator,
who
is making
a
flicat to Australia, arrived
at Eangoon
on
Suiaday.
He left
for'
B. ngkok
on Mon=
day.
:
\Washington,
Dec.
4th.
- Mr Lansing,
Secrerary
of State,
will be
called
before
the
Senate
oveid?
Relations
Committee,
beiore
action
is taken
on
the
resolution
of senator
Fa:l
(Republican)
requesting
President
Wilso:
o
scver
diplomatie
re-
lattons
wich
Mcxico.
Decision
to
ecall
Mr.
Lansing
fors
a
discussion
of
the
Mexican Quescion,
was
reached
by
the
Commiitee
atier
#» two houars’
s2ssion
be-
hind closed
doors.
Mr. Fleteher,
Ameri-
can
Ambassardor
to
Mexico
was
before
the Commit ee
today,
to give his
view
on
the
Liexican
situation.
[l'ne
discussion
was said
to nave
reveajed
considerable
difidrence of
opinion
among
committee
members,
rogarding
the
best
method
of
protecting
American
interests
in
the
Southern
Republie,
Loncon,
Dee.
4th.—Mr. Lioyd George,
speaking
ia the House
of
Commons
to-
day, expres:ed
the hope
that
the
Peace
‘Ireaty
woua:d
be ratified before
the
end
of tne
Mmenith.
He
thought
Parliament
would &djourn
on
Demeceniber
23rd
un-
til Felyruary.
‘
Rangoon
Burmah,
Deec.
4th,—Lieut
Poulet,
the I'rench w:ilitary Aviator, who
arrivea here
on
Sunday
on
his
flight
from Paris
10 Australia,
¢ontinued
his
journey on Llonday morning.
Dorpat.
Dee.
4th.—The
Bolsheviki
delegation arrived here
today for a meet-
ing
of
the
delegates
of
the
Baltic
States.
ey
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.l U.S.'A..
TUESDAY.
9rs
DECEMBER
1919.
Pierre.
South,
Dakota,
Dec.
3rd. - Ma-
jor General
Wood
was endorsed
{or Pres
ident of the
United States
last
n ght,
by
the Ré&publican states
conivention.
Gov-
erior
Coolidge of Massaehusets
was
en-
dors:
d for
the
Viee *President
nomina-
tion
by
a heavy
-iajority.
London,
Dec.
4th.—There
was
a
per-
sisfent
rumour
ic
the
stock
exchange
this morning
that
the
Supreme
Council
of the
Peace
Confeogence
had
threatened
Germany,, that
ugiess
the
final
peace
terms
\v‘e%e
agreed
to,
allied
troops
would occupy
Essen
and
Frankfort.
Up
tc the present
time
the
market
has
not
oeen
affeeted
by thg report.
Washington,
Dee. sth. —President
Wil-
son will see
Senators
Fall
aid
Hiteheock
this
afternoon
to
discuss
the
Vexican
situation.
Senators Fail
and
Hiteheock
were
named
as
a comirittee
vesterday
by
the Senaie
Foreign Relations
Coramittee,
to confer
with the President
to
seek
his
views
on the resolution
of
Senawor
Fall,
requesting
that
he
sever
diploma.ic
rala-
tions
with
the
Mexican
Government.
The
Hitehcock
substtute
proposal
that
Congress
assare
the President
of its
sup-
port
*sheuld
he
decide
to
brezk
with
Mexico, also
will
be
presented
to
the
President.
London,
Dec.
sth.—Sir
Hamar
Green-
wood,
Under Secre:ary
for Home Affairs,
in an address
today before
the
Chamber
of
Commerce
of
London,
announced
that the Foreign Secretary
was abouf
to
appoint
a
Committee
of
representative
men
1o enquire into tne
best
means
for
promoting
Dritish
Chambers
of
Com-
merce
in all the cities
o1
I.e
world.
Washington,
Dec.
sth.
The American
Embassy
at
Mexico
City
notitied
the
State Department
today
that
the
United
States
Corsular agent at Puebla
Las been
released,it
was announced
that the advices
said
that Mr Jenkins
had
been
liberated
-st night from
the
penitentiary’ where
he
had
been
held, pending trial on charg-
es of giving false information regarding
his abduetion
by
Mexican bandits
in Uc-
tober.
Mr. Jenkins
retired
immediately
to his home.
Brussels,
Dec. sth.—The
Committee
of
the Conference
of the Association for the
League of Nations decided today that the
Holy
See
could
not
be
regarded
as
a
nation,
but expressed.
the
view
that
it
was
a power,
and that there
was
no
im-
portant
reason
for the exclusion
of
the
Vatican
from
representation
in
the
League
of
Nations.
The question
was
referred
to the Special
Commuttee.
Washington,
Dec.
sth.—Mexico has
24
No. 254,
war tyne
airplane;
mobilized
at
Chihua-
hua City alone,
and
is obtaining addition-
al
planes
from:
Gevmany,
according
to
War
Department
information
to°~ the
House
Military
Committee
today,
by
Brigadier
General
Mitchell,
Chief
of
Operations
of the Army Air Service
The
department
also
has
information
from
relinble
sources
that
General
Mitchell
said
that the former pilots in the
German
army
are
arriving in
Mexico for service
in the Army air forces
there.
Washington,
Dee.
sth.—President
Wil-
son
has
no
intention
of withdravwing
the
Peace
Treaty
from
the
Senate
for
the
vresent,
Senator
Hitchcock
announced
today
after
his
visit
to
the
President.
They
discussed
the
Treaty
after
the
Conference
on
the
Mexican
situarion.
(““The President
thinks’’), the
Senator
said,
‘‘that the
failure of the
Senate
to
act
on the Treaty
at the special
session
shifted
the
responsibility
in the
maiter
to our shoulders.
He
is just going
to let
it stay
where
it is at present.
Loncon,
Deec. 4th.—Mr.
Lloyd
George
gave
no pledge
of any kind
to the
Amer-
ican
representatives
at
the
peace
cor-
ference
that in eonsideration
of the
ques-
tion of Irish
self
government
lot being
dealt
with by
the
Conterence,
the
Brit-
ish
Government
would
as
soon
as
possi-
ble after the signing of the Peace
Treaty,
settle
the Irish Question
on
a Home
Rule
Basis.
This
statement
was
made
by Mr.
Bonar
Law, Government
fspokesman,
in
replyinz
toa
question
in
the
House
to-
oy
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Invincible C.
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