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V.
1.
U.
S. A.,
TUESDAY,
16tTH
SEPTEMBER
1919.
Wilson
declared
here
today.
‘lt was
a
mistake
to debate
the Peace
Treaty
as if
it were
an ordinary Treaty’’, he
contin
ved
'‘lt was
not
merely
a
treaty
with
Germany.
but
a trealy
effecting
a settie
ment of
the affairs of the worid
"‘and
it
is
this
treaty
or no
treaty’’ *it is
this
treaty,
because
there
can
be
no
other”’
Paris,
Sept.
11th.—The
Suprems=
Council has
decided
to present
the
peace
treaty
with
Bulgaria
to
the
Bualcarian
Peace
Mission
on Saturdsy
Sept.
13ch.
Capetown,
Sept.
11th.—The
House
of
Assembly
of the
Union of South
Africa
has
ratified
the Peace
Treaty.
Vienna, Sept.
10th. --Associated
Press.
The
Bratino
Cabinet
in
Rumania
has
fallen,
according
to
unofficial
reports
wh:eh
reache.!
Vienna
from
Bucharest
today.
M. Jonescu
is saill obe forminyz
a
new
Govt.
This
is believed
here
to
forashadow
a
change’in
the
Rumanian
Policy respecting
the: Hungariai
occu-
pation.
Montreal,
Sept.
11.h.—lt
was
stated
by
officials Jor
the
Canadian
Govt.
mer-
chant
Marine,
that
this
line
operated
uncer
the
Canadian
National
Railway
Board,
would probably
koep
the
ports of
St.
John
ana
Hahiax
fully occupied
during the coming
Winter Seasen
with a
fieet
of
32
vessels
vwhich
had
never
before
plied between
these
ports.
Paris,
Sept.
11th.
-The Serbian
Dele-
gation
here
advised
the
Peace
Confer-
ence todav
<hat because
of the fall of the
Govt.
in Belgrade,
it was
unable
Lo
ob-
tain
iustructions
eoncerning
the
signing
of the Austrian Treaty:
The
delegation
said
it would
have
to wait
for such
jn-
structions
antil
a
new
Cabinet
was
formed.
Paris,
Sept.
11th.—At this
morning’s
Session
of the-Supreme
Council
of
the
Peace
Conference
the
terms of the
note
to
be sent
to
Germany
concerning
the
suppression
of article
61 of the
German
Constitution
in
relation
to
Austrian
Representation
in
the
German
Parlia-
ment,
were decided
upon.
The
Allie
note,
which
is
in reply
to
the
recent
German
answer
to
the
original Allied
ultimatum, will be communicated
to
the
German
Peace
Delegation
at
Versailles
this
evening.
Mr.
Balfour
attended
the
session
for
the
last
time
as
a
member
of
the
Council.
Mr. Bonar
Law
or
Viscount
Milner of
the
Peace
D?l(agation
will replace
him
on the
Coun-
cil.
.
Paris,
Sept.
11th.—M.
Louis
Malvey,
forraerly
Minister
of
the
Interior
who
has been
in Spain since
being
banished
in
August
1918
for holding
communica-
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Havana,
Sept.
11th—Five
persons
are
known
to
be
dead
and
several
others
are
missing
as
a result
of
the
cyelone
wlick swept
over
the
rity on
Tuesday.
The
Electrie lighting and
telephone
sys-
tems
are
badly
crippled,
but
it
is
im-
possible
as
yet to
estimate
the
damage
which
is very heavy.
Miami,
Fla.,
Sept.
Ilth--A
tornado
of
great
intensity
yesterday,
almost
enfirely
demohished
Goulds
a
town
of
500 inhabitants,
22 miles south
of Miami.
Three
persons
were
injured.
Only
two
houses
remain
standing.
Ottawa, Sept.
12th—The
Peace
Tl'reaty
was passed
this
morning by
a Govt.
ma-
jority the vote
standing
for 102 against
70.
It was
a straight
virty vote stand-
ing for 102
against
70.
It was a straight
party
vote
with
no
switehes.
Sir
Rob-
ert Borden’s
motion
was
then
declared
carried.
Paris,
Sept.
11th—The
Supreme
Coun-
cii
will take
up
the drafting
of
peace
terms
with
Turkey
tomorrow.
Mr.
Lloyd George
will arrive
here
for
the
purpose.
He
will be
assisted
in
the
conference
by
Field
Marshal
Allenby,
Commander
of the Allied forces in Asia
Mivor,
who has
just arrived in
- France.
The
question
of
the
future
sechedule
work
of the Peace
Conference also
will
be taken
up,
many members
of the Con-
ference
arguing
for
an
adjournment
after examination
of
Rumania’s
reply to
the Peace
Conference.
-
Billings, Mon., Sept.
11th.—The
ques-
tion
of
the
ratification
of
the
Peace
Treaty
was
a question
on
whether
the
United
States
would fulfillits pledge
to
its
people
and to
the fworld,
President
No.
212
tion with the
enemy,
has
written
to the
President
of
the
Commission
which
18
framing the gen=ral
amnesty
bill, asking
that his
name
be omitted
from
the
mea-
sure.,
‘Ido rot
desire
amnesty
except
under
determined
conditions’’,
the
For-
eign Minister declared.
Cologne, Sept.
11th.—A
munition
ma-
gazine exploded
in
the neighbourhood
of
Neuwicd
this
morning.
Two
hundred
persons
were injured
and it
is
believed
many
were killed.
Paris,
Sept.
11th.—The
Royal
Govern-
ment
of Montenegro
has
sent
a
protest
to the Peace
Conference
because
her
re-
presentatives
were
not
permitted
t-
sign
the Austrian
Treaty.
All
the Allied and
Associated
Powers
signed
the treaty with
Austria,
even
those
which did not
spill
a
drop
of
blood’’.
The
protest
says.
“*The Peace
Conference
lefused
the
same
rights
to
Montenegro,
which
from
the
very
beginning
of
the
war
voluntarily
sided
with
the
Allies.
losing
forty
per
cent of her soldiers”’.
Buenos
Aires, Sept.
12th. -Two steam-
ers
have brought 450 German
im migrants
to this port.
The
men
were
all
young,
robust
and
educated.
Lonaon,
Sept.
12th-—lt
is
reported
that four and
a
half
million
pounds
in
gold has
reached
London
from Germany,
and
a portion
is said
to
be
already
on
the
way
to Canada
in
payment
for
food-
stuffs.
Berlin,
Sept.
11th.—A
semi-official
forecast
oi
the
wheat
crov
indicates,
that Germany
may possibly
be
able
to
dispense
with foreign
deliveries,
if
the
farmers {turn in the
new
crop promptly..
Tokio, Sept.
11th.—Since
a
recent
at-
tempt
to
assassinate
the
Governor
of
Korea
every
part of Seoul
has
been
occu-
pied by
Japanese
troop, and
the
place
is virtually in a state
of siege,
the would
be assassin
in still at large.
_
;
Executive Order No. 4.
HEREAF&ER
in sales
of
aleohol
and
Bay Rum,
the seller
must fully satis-
fy himself
as
to the identity of the
buy-
er.
Section
5
of Executive
Order No.
1
and Section
5 of Executive
Order
No. 2,
vregarding
records
in
sales
books,
are
hereby amended
accordingly.
Government
of the
Virgin Islands
of
the
United States,
St,
Thomas,
Septem-
ber,
8, 1919.
J.
W. OMAN.
Governor.