**Guiauna’’ from
Windward
wiih
the
following passengers:
From
Barbados:
Mrs.
M.
Guildberg.
Fgom
Guadeloupe:
Mr. & Mes. Laßouche.
From
St.
Kitis:
Mary Ann James
& child,
Caroline [saac,
L.
Warton,
Georgiana
Edwards,
Kdith
Arthurton,
E. Cordett,
Ella Carty,
Mary
Caines,
E. A
Wedde,
S. Francis,
Mr. E.
A. Northy.
She
landed
some
over
carried
cargo
and
is
now loading
sugar
for New York.
The
‘Korona’”’ from
New
York
with
2,070
packages
for the
island
and the
following passengers:
Miss
N.
Schoen,
Rev.
Z.
N.
Corbe,
G.-Gravesen,
J.
Knudsen.
From
St.
Thomas—Judge
Curry, Judge
Noll,
Miss
Echenagucia,
Mrs.
O’Neal,
Miss
E. O’Neal,
Miss
Beatrice
Fleming,
Miss
k. Cookley,
Miss
Beatrice
Lewis,
Miss
L.ucille
Smith,
Mrs.
A. Meßean,
C.
Willlams
and
child,
M.s.
Ada
Warn>r,
C. Samuel,
Miss
Jane
Martin,
Miss Ann
Mulx.
Expected
to sail this
as
ernoon.
The
s.
s.
“"Guiana’’ is exnected
to leave
Tuesday
noon.
We
learn
that
$23,000
iy
American
Siiver
cy. arrived
nere
foday by the
s,
s.
““Korona’’ for
circulation
in
the
island.
West End News,
17th April.
Under
News
from
New
York
will
be
found reference
to the Virgin Islands
Or-
chestra
under
the leadership
of Professor
Hulbert Finlay.
Do
vou remember
Hui-
bert
?
The public o
“hristiansted
cer-
tainly do.
Hulbert
always showed
a good
taste
for music
and
had
a
specia!
liking
for
the
‘‘rags’’.
He
was
founder
and
leader
of a
very polular ‘“‘Regtime Band”’
up
to
the
time
of his departure
for the
States
and
plavs
the
cornet,
violin and
mandolin
with araceful
effecc.
Mr.
George
linlay of
Christiansted,
his
father,
must
feel
proud of his boy:
and
no less
Mr. Fred.
Jackson,
jr., of the
Native
Band
who planted
the
first
seeds
.of musie
in Hulbert.
May sucenss
follow
his efforts always. —-Ibid.
J'he
American
West
Indian
Benevolent
Society
held their
19th
Arnnual
Ball
and
recantion
on Kaster
Monday
night
April
Eth.
at
St.
Marks
Hali
57
W.
128th 8t
The
Hall
was
packed
toits
capaci‘y
with Virgin Islanders
in their swell
East-
er
costumes.
When
the Virgin Island
Orchestra
un-
der the leadership
of
Professor
Hulbert
Finlay the
terror
on
the
Cornet,
played
such
numbers
as
the Vamp, you’l! be
sur-
prised,
and ‘'Nix on
the key
to
my
cel-
ler’”’ it
was
hard
to
find
any
dancing
space,
so great
was
the erowd.
The organization
will give
their
usual
Big Pienic
on independence
Day,
where
the
manv
thousands
go
annualy
as
a
means
of finding ral
pleasure.
—lbid.
all UEU
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AVIS
TELEGRAM:S.
ST. CROIX STA LION.
(Delayed
in transmission.)
London, April Bth.—The
German
bat
tleships
‘‘Nassau’’
and
'‘Osteriesland’”’
arrived
at
the Firth of
Forth
yesterday,
constituting
the
commencement
of
the
surrender
of
th2 remainder
of
the Ger-
man
w rships,
under
;the
termis
of
the
Treaty
of
Versailies.
The
Oste-
riesland’”
will ulimately
be turned
over
to the United States
Govt.,
and
the
Ad-
miralty
is
awaiting
inswructions
from
Washington
regarding
the date
on
which
the
vessel
will depart
for
the
United
States.
London,
April
7th.—The
‘‘Times’’
states
that
increase
in
ocean
freight
rates
from the United Kingdom
to North
America
will take
effect from April 19th
and will range
from
25%,
on the lower
classes
of goods,
to 50%
on
more
valu-
able articles.
Berlin,
April 7th.—The
occupation
of
the
German
cities
in
the
neutral
zone
of the Rhine
by
French
troops
was
de-
nounced
here
today
in an official
state-
ment
dealing
with
the
incident.
It
is
declared
that the
Govt.
did
everything
to
prevent
what
Is
desceribsd
as
*'This
unheard
of action’’
which
is neither
in
accordance
with
the
sense
of the Peace
Treaty,
nor
its scope
and
is out of
ro-
portion
with
the
insigni‘icance
of
our
measures
in the Ruhr
region.
London,
April Tth—The
Freneh
have
taken
the
only right
course
after
such
warnings
as
they
have
given
the
Ger-
mans,
says
i‘he 'Times’’
today,
in
dis-
cussing
the
French
advance
into
Ger-
many.
The
sharp
surprise,
the
news-
paper
continues,
which
t
e
step
has
caused
among
the
inhabitants
of
Ber-
iin,
1s
very
wholesome,
and
we
trust
it will
also
be
felr by
the
German
mili-
tarists
and
their
accomplices
in
the
Wilhemstrasse.
The
hopeis
expressed
by
the
newspaper
that
1t
will
not
be
necessary
for
others
of
the
Allies
to
advance
into
the
Ruhr
districts,
but
should
the
conduct
of the
German
Govt.
or its inability to
control
general
mat-
ters,
make
it
necessary
publie opinion
in
Engiand
will
insist
that
our
French
friends
should
receive
the heartiest
and
fullest support
from their
British broth:
ers
warms.
The
''Times’
savs
it
no-
tices
with
extreme
wonder
the
state-
ments
from
Washington
and
Rome,
that the
British,
American
and
Italian
Govfs.
are standing aside,
and
that they
had
no
objection
to the
German
advance
provided
the
troops
were
to
be
with-
drawn
when
order
was
restored.
We
don’t know
what the
ltalian
Govi.
may
or may
not have
decided”’, the **Times”’
says,
“"And
we
know
unhappily
that
America
is
reverting
more
and
more
to her
isolation,
ur
il
at
any
rate
the
elections
are
over,
.ut
in
the
enforce-
ment
of
the
Treaty
there
can
be
no
standing
aside
of
England
frem
the
Frenchal
y”’.
New ‘York,
April
Tth.——The
Cu
.ard
Liner
'Carmania’’
has
arrived
itrom
Liverpool,
byway
of
Halifax,
N.
S,
with
a million
dollars
in gold
buliions.
Among
her
cabin
passengers
was
Sir
William
Wiseman,
of the
British
For-
eign Office,
who is
said
to be
on
a
spe-
cial mission.
Washington,
April
7th—The
United
States
plans
to follow
the lead of
Great
Britain
is
establishine
a
special
avia-
tion service
in the Army Medical
Corps.
The
official
announcement
issued
yes-
terday
declared
that
this
service
has
greatly
reduced
air
fatalities
in sGreat
Britain.
London,
April Bth. - The
“Daily Gra-
bhic”’
says
the
situation
in
the
South
and
West
of Ireland
has
become
S 0 3e-
rious
that
the loyalists
have
not only de-
cided
fto organize
their
own
defence,
but are
appealing
to English
sympathi-
zers
to aid
in
the
new
movement,
The
Irish Republicans,
the
“'Graphice’”’ states
are
said
to
be
bezinning
in
organized
campaign
of what practically
means
the
ex propriation
of land
nnder
threats
of
violence
and
murder
Kingston
Jamaica,
Aprl Bth.A
nro-
posal
was
‘submitted
in
the Legislative
Council today regarding
the
representa-
tien of Jamaica
at the
Conference
to
be
held
at Ottawa
next
nionth.
This
con-
ference
will
consider
the
guestion
of
trade
relations
and
transport
facilities
between
the Dominion of Canada
and
the
British
West
Indies.
The
entire
Brit-
ish
West Indies
will
be
represented
at
the
Conference
and
an
effort
will
be
made
to
deflect
large
portion
of
the
West India
trade
with the United
States
to Canada.
To this
end,
a special
tariff
law
will
be
formulated,
the
Jamaica
Government
givinrg
the
preference
on
Canadian
goods coming here,
Paris,
April 11th.—The
‘'Petit
Pari-
sien”’
states
that
Lord Derby,
the Brii.-
ish
Ambassador,
hdving
asked
M. Mil
lerand
when
he expected
to proceed
to
San
Remo,
the latter
replied
accepting
in principle the date
of the 19th instant,
but
conditicnally
upon
the reception
re-
ceived
by his last
note
insisting
on the
necessity
of removing
all discord before
opening inter-allied discussions.
Paris,
April 11th—The-
Council of
the
Society
of
Nations,
presided
over
by
M.
Leon
Burgecis,
approved
g 2 report
on
Armenia,
considered
the
military
measures
for the
protection
of the new
state
and
provisional
financial
steps
to
be
taken,
also
three
reports
on
Turkey,
the
liberation
of
prisoners
in
Siberia
and
representative
elections
in the Free
city of Danzig.
Brussels,
April 11th.-
A
battalion
of
Belgian
troops,
with
music
and
flags
will
leave
Arlon
tolay
for Mayence,
where
it will be received
officially by the
French
troops
proceeding
afterwards
to Frankfort.