The
s
s.
“‘Guiama’’ from
New York
via
St. Thomas
arrived
at
Frederiksted
early
on Saturday
morning.
The
mails
by har for this end
were brought
up and
delivered shortly after
9 a.
m.
:
The mail-schooner
‘‘Virginia’’arrived
at Frederiksted
on Saturday
evening and’
the mails for.this
end
were delivered
yes-
terday morning.
§
Che
theatre
is
the
place
to spend
an
enjoyable
evening
seeing
the
brilliant
acts
in the now famous
serial
"‘Elmo the
Mighty”’.
_See
programme
in
this
issue
and
secure
seats
early
The co-operative
store,
¢r
grocery,
for
the employees
at
Bethlehem
concern
is
now learned
to
be
a
faect,
and
already
"):u‘t!)‘ established.
©
At
a tertain
deposit
once
for all each
member
has
the
privi-
lege
to buy
from
the
establishment
and
gaip
*the
advantage
of
the .fair
prices
which are
fixed
at
something
over
the
gross
cost
of the goods - lt'may be noted
what
a benefit this
move
will
mean
to at
east fifty families comprising
more
than
a
hundred
people
whcse
patronage
will
naturally
be
diverted
from
the
town
shops
As ar example of the prices
that
will prevail it is quoted
that Danish
but-
ter
is
being
sold
at
90
centsa poung.
The
last price charged
in town was
some-
where
around
a-
dollar and
forty
cents,
a
neat
profit of merely
50 per
cent
or so.
A contributor
to this paper
has
sent
us
an extract from-the
New
York
Tribune
on the
booze
question,
published
in
this
tssue.
As stated
before,
we do
not mean
10
muzzle
opinion
in
any ‘matter,
and
while
we
would certainly extend
a
great-
er weicome
to contributions
irf support of
prohibition,
we
uevertheless
feel
that
the expression
of their views
is the right
of
the
non-prohibitionists.
The
article
to which attention
of readers
is
invited
ils decidedly
interesting,
and
emanating
as it does from
one of the
most
authentie
and reliable journals in the United States,
i» undoubtedly
entitied
to'some
consider-
ation.
B
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STA +ION.
(Delayed In Transmission).
Paris,
"Aug. 11th.—The
French
Govt.
has
decided
to
recognize
General
Wran-
ge,
as
head
of
the
de
facto
Govt.
of
Soath
Russia.
In making this
announce-
ment
the
Ministry of
Foreign
Affairs
salid
this
recognition
implied rendering
Wrangel
all
possible
military assistance
London,
Aug.
Ilth.—ln the champion-
ship
ericket
yesterday
Kent
beat
Glou-
cestershire
by
80 runs.
Lancs
defeated
Notts
by
95
runs.
Hampshire
who
played
a
great
second
innings
of
349,
Mead
making 176, beat
Somerset
by
191
runs.
The
Warwickshire-Northampton-
shire match
was
drawn.
Slot
Rgi
e R
AV 18
‘Clonakilty County, Cork,
Aug.
11th.
-
‘Two soldiers
were
shot dead
here
last
night.
i
"~
:
'
London,
Aug.
11lth.—-The
dangerofa
general strike
of British
labour
as
a
pro-
test
against
Mr.
Lloyd George’s
policy
with respeet
to the Soviets
is passed,
and
4
Yabour believes
that the
Russian
cyisis
is
®
over.
Assurances
have
been
given
through
Mr, Clynes, the
Labour Leader,
'
that
no British troops
will
invade
Rus-
|
sian
soil
or
seek
the
déstruction
of
the
|
Soviet ovt.
This 'word was given today
by Mr. Tlynes after he had
a
forty min-
!
ates
interview
with the
Premier
at
nvoa
|
in
Downing Street.
|
. Washington,
Aug.
11th,—Poland
will
|
ask
immediate
aid of the
United
States
|
in its fight against
the Russiap
Bolshevi-
|
ki, Coynt Lu omirski,
the Polish
Minis-
!
ter, announced
today.
The appeal
to the
|
State
Department,
the Minister said,
will
|
be based
upon the
assurance
contained
iu
the United
States
note
to Italy that
the
United States
will insist
upon
the
main-
“tenance
of the politieal independence
and
1
territorial integrity of Poland.
The
aid ‘
requested,
it was said,
probabiy wiil
be
|
confined
to a reqaest
for an extension
of
|
credits
by the United
States
for the pur-
|
chase
by Poland
of
surplus
war stocks.
|
Permission
to purchase
200,000 army uni-
|
formes
and
200,000
pairs of shoes
from
the United
States
War
Dept.
Stock
al-
!
ready
has
been
asked
tfor by the
Polish
|
Lezation.
‘
{
Cowes,
Aug.
11th.—The
United States
|
won the
Harmsworth
trophy,
the
Inter-
national
motor-boat
prize,
through
the
victory of
‘‘Miss
America™
in the
sec-
ond
race
of
the
series
off
here
today.
The trophy
goes
to the
country
winning
{
two
out
of
three
races.
America
also
‘
won
the first race yesterday.
|
London,
Aug.
11th.—The
Westmin-
g
ster
Gazette
discussing
the
report
that
|
Sir
George
Foster
asked
‘the
Imperial
|
Press
Conference
delegates
to put them-
|
selves
unitedly
behind
the
idea
of impe-
|
rial
preference
in
trade.
says
it is
cer-
|
tainly
not
in
accordance
with
its ideas
|
of public pnlicy that
the
press
shouid
do
anything
of the
kind.
When
the press
|
allows themselves
to be ‘manoeuvred
into
|
united
support
of
a particular
policy
:
|
which
affects
buying of
their
raw
ma-
|
terial,
the
press
will have
lost
the par-
|
ticular
policy
which
gives
them
their
|
power.
A
union
that
bound
all papers
to say
the same
thing
would
be fatal to
|
the
press,
in
the
opinion
of the West-
|
minster
Gazette.
{
-Warsaw,
Aug.
Bth.—The
Premier
in
|
a statement
to the Polish
newspapermen
said that
tne
Polish
Government
w.uld
remain
in Warsaw
indefinitely.
é
Paris,
Aug.
7th.—The
Polish®
coun-
|
ter-attaeks
against
the
Russian
Bolshe-
|
viki
have
been
successiul,
according
|
to
the
newspapers
here.
France
and
|
England,
says
the ‘‘Matin’’,can,
with-
|
out furnishing. troops,
give
powerful
!
assistance
to Poland
in her battle
against
the §Soviet
armies.
The
Czecho-Slovak
-
Minister to France
declares
in
an
inter-
~
view
today,
in
the
'‘Excelsior’’,
that
. Czecho-Slovakia
would
eonsider
inter-
. vention
in Poland
only if the
territorial
~
Integrity and
sovereignty
of that
coun-
‘
try
should
be
threatened.
He
says
'
his
country
considers
the
existence
of
.
an {independent
Poland
necessary
from
'
the
viewpoint® of
the
European
equili
.
brium.
|
London,
Aug. Btb.---The
Mosco./
Gov-
.
ernment
has
notified
the British Govern
.
ment
that
it
has
been
arranged
for
§
the Polish delegates
to¢ress
the
Russian
|
frontier
on
the
evening
of August 9th
~
for the armistice
and
peace
negotiations,
|
which
are
to begin
at
Minsk
on
August
b
llth,
.
!
Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 7th. —Peace
for the
.
United
States
and the world by
this
na
|
tion’s entrance
into the league of nations
with interpretations
not disturbing
its
vi-
tal principle, was pronounced
today by Mr.
Cox, the democratic
presidential standard
|
bearer,
as
his
paramount
poliey,
in
his
‘- address
here
accepting
the
demoecratic
{
nomination.
Mr. Cox militantly
cham
|
pioned
the league
as proposed
by
Presi-
|
dent Wilson
with interpretations
e¢nsur-
|
ing good
faith and
understanding,
and
i
he denounced
what
he termed
a
dishon-
|
ourable
proposai from Senator
Harding,
!
his Republican
oppenent;-for
a
separate
|
peace
with Germany.
i
Berlin,
Aug.
7th.--String
drafis
of
'
French
artillery
have
been.
arriving
in
Upper
Silesia by
the way of
Czecho-Slo-
vakia, and ammunition
trains
are rolling
. into
the
province
in
quick
suecession.
|
Workingmen,
it is declared, arein
a state
of
great
exctement,
believing
that
‘
France
intends to use Upper Silesia
as
&
|
base
for the sxpedition_to
Poland.
Gen-
g
eral
Fermond,
President
of ‘the
inter-
!
Allied Commission
in Upper Silesia,
has
|* returned
from France
to Oppeln.
=
.
!
Hythe, ;Aug.
Bth,
—Associated
Press
-
|
Great
Britain and France
are eonvineed
|
that
the
“Boisheviki
intend
to
ecapture
.
Warsg,
and
set_up
a Soviet Govt.
in
|
Polan?.,‘
This has.been
learned
from
ap
|
official
source.
Tonight
the
following
|
~announcement
was
made:
At
the
con-
g
ference between
Mr. Lloyd George and M.
|
Miilerand, held today
to
discuss
the Pol
|
ish situation, it wasjdecided
that the
con-
.
ference
would continue
to-morrow, w&;n
|
the Premiers
wiil dwell
upon
the
nathl,
{
military and economie
plans for the
sav-
|
ing of Poland.
The plans
are being drawn
‘
up
tonight by
Marshal
Foch
and
Field
i
Marshal Sir ‘Henry Wiison,
Chiet of the
Imperial General Staff.
These
were
the
outstanding deveiopmenis
of the day,
and
.
ifoilowed the official anpouncement
that
~
the Soviet Government
had
definitely
re-
.
fused
the
ten days
truce
requested-by
i
Mr, Lloyd George
asa
result
of Friday's
' meeting with the Russian
Mission,
head-
.
ed
by
M. Kemeneff
and
M.
Krassin.
!
While there his been
no
ralk officially of
declaring
war
upon
Russia.
the
Allies