We beg to apologize
to our
veaders for
the late publication of Official News
con-
cerning Captain
Alfred H. Noble.
How
the
letter
from
Government
came
into
this office or to whom
it may
have been
delivered
we have
been
unable
to
ascer-
tain,
it being
only
accidentally
found
yesterday
morning upon
one of the
com-
posing cases.
Hence
the delay.
..
It is announced
in today’s issue
of the
‘*Herald’’ that Mr. D. Hamilton Jackson,
Editor of that paper.
will deliver
a
pub-
lic lecture
on the whart
this
evening
in
which
he will present
his side
of
a
mis-
understanding
with the clergymen
of the
Roman
Catholic Church
in this island.
&
o
OFFICIAL NEWS.
Captain Alfred H. Noble, U. S. Marine
Corps,
who arrived in St.
Thomas
on the
Parima
last Wednesday
has
been
assign-
ed
to duty as Commanding
Officer of the
116th.
Company at the Marine
Barracks,
St. Thomas.
Captain Noble
recently returned
from
overseas
where
he
saw
considerable
ser-
vice at the front.
A brief
summary
of
his service
follows:
He embarked
with the Sixth Regiment
of Marines for overseas
service
on Octo-
ber 27,
1917 and
was at the
front
in
tne
following
sectors:
Verdun,
Chateau
Thierry (Belleau Wood),
Soissons,
Mara-
bach,
Champagne
(Blanc Mont
Ridge),
Meuse,
Argonne
and
St.
Mihiel.
He al-
so participated
in the march
to the Rhine
where
he remained
with the Army of Oc-
cupation until July 27,
1919,
when
he
re-
turned
to the
United States
with his
re-
giment arriving on August 6th,
1919.
Captain
Noble
was
in command
»f the
83rd.
Company,
Sixth
Regiment,
from
March
17,
1918,
until August
20,
1919,
when
the
regiment
was
disbanded.
He
was
presented
with
the
Distinguished
Service Tross
for
the
Belleau
Wood
ac-
tion.and
the
Croix
de
Guerre
for
the
Champagne
engagement
and
was
also
presented
with
divisional
citations
on
two occasions
in the
Champagne
sector
and
once
in the
Meuse-Argonne
sector.
He has
the proud digtitiction of being the
first American officer on duty in
the Vir-
gin
Islands
to
wear
the
Distinguished
Service
Cross
and
the
Croix
de tsuerre.
The
Chairman
& Road
Commission.
As Roads
are
to be
re-allotted
in
the new
future,
please
see
that
all
Road
Holders
who have
neglected
to do
their
bit
in tle
past
yeai,
be
made
to
have their
Holdings
in
good
shape
be-
rore
re-allotment.
Also
that
new
work
under
way
be
not
as King’s Hill bridge
and
those
on
North
Side
were.
(Gone
but
not
for-
gotten.)
ROAD HOLDER.
s
1.
e ROX
AN
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|
Little Joknny’s Slate.
‘
On the Estate,
‘
Sept.
the twenty-third.
‘
Dear Mr. Yohansen:
~
Ist. I must
thank you for showing
us
around
the
office the
last
tims
we
came
to
towrn
and
I
cane
uj to g2t my
.
slate
to
rite
on.
When
we
got
home
"
Daddy
told
Mother
where
we had been
and
that
you
said
you
had
lost
b sub-
'
seribers
and
got
10
new
ones
and you
thought the
war was over but
you
would
not charge
any incemnities like Enzland
"
and
France
ind Ameriza
ckargec
Ger-
~
many and
Austria
and
Turkey.
It was
very late when
we got home «nd w 2 had
to axe the
Central for
the
tirie because
Daddy forgot the Steeple
was not wo-king
"
and had
set
his
watch by it.
Mrs.
Pius
was
paying
a
visit when
we
got
homea.
"
and when
Daddy told
Mother about
his
'
watch,
Mrs.
Pius
larft
at
the
Steeple
and
Ch istiarsted
(Mrs.
Pius
lives
at
'
the
North Sice,
but vot:s
in
Frecerik-
.
sted).
Daddy
told ter
tkatat
ali
e’ents
~
the
clock
in
the
Steeple
was
rice
2
|
times
in 24 hours
arnd
some
people
were
'
always
rong,
and
that
he
wishec
the
cloek in the Steeple
was
¢ religious argu-
~
ment for it wculd be
one
that
had
come
.
toafinish
We we-e goiag to
Fredearik-
.
sted
to-morrow
if
Dacdy
sold
some
|
cows
to
be
shiped
fron
there
soon,
i
but
our
cows
are
a
no-hcrn
kbrede
|
and can’t be
<shiped
as tkere is
no
Lorns
|
to liftthem
by to pat them
on the
boat.
l'
We
may
come
to
Ulristiaisted
and if we
.
stay for the
evening Dadly sars
we will
|
go
to here
Mr
Jackson’s
“*Nightly de-
.
sense
on
daily oporessin’.
I
hope
'
veople will set
their watc
ies b the
flag
'
and not by the Steeple
so they
can
be
on
|
time.
;
Yours truly
.
|
JONNIE ICNATZ.
|
TLLEGRALIMS
I
ST. CROI:X STATIOMN.
;
London,
Sept.
20th.-
-it
is
repo ted
'
that
the
British
evacuation
of
Asia
-
Minor has begun.
f
London,
Sep:.
20th.
Viscount
Grey,
[
Ambassador
tc
the
United
States,
left
'
London
this
riorning
on
his
way
to
|
America.
Lord Reading,
V'inston
Chure-
'
hill, Secretary
of War,
and Ear!
Curzon,
j
President
of the couacil,
kade bim
fare-
|
well at the station.
Sir W lliam
Tyrrell,
.
Viscount
Greys
private
Secietary
is
;
accompanying
the Arabassador.
1
Melbourne,
Sept.
20th.- The
.Jouse
of
'
Representatives
has
passed
without
.
division
the pecce
treaty,
and
an
agree-
'
ment
to
defend
France
against
ag-
gression..
London,
Sept.
19th.—A
War
Office
.
communication
issued
toaight
records
.
a successful ant:-Bolshevik:
operation
by
Pritish,
Serbian,
and
Russian
troops
with
the capture
of :wo villagesin
:the
nerthwest
shore
of
lake
Omega.
The
repulse
by aircraft
of fifteern
3olshevik
vessels
whizh
at:emoted
to intercep:
the
landirg
of
an
allied
columr,
on
the
western
shore
of che lake, i 3 also
report-
ed.
Mo da es ar: given as
tr when
hese
incidents
took pl:.ce, bit they 2r2 regrard
od in some (quarters
here
as ind cati g
¢
moveraent
towards
Fetrograd,
possibly
confir ning -he recent
sugge stiol
that
1
is the inten-ion
to evacuate
Archangzl by
that route.
The
communi-ation
issuec
lonigkt
clams
a series
of
sucecegsfuvl
at
‘acks
in th: Tzaritsin
district,
with
the
capture
of
more
thar
4,000
Bolsh:vik
troops
and adds ‘hat the Bo she -Iks
have
recaptured
Kose etz,
1 ortheast
of kiev.
Lonion,
3eot.
20th.--Grzat
3rit in’s
treaty with Persia
does
not
constitu ea
protec:orate
of the lattzr country
in
anv
way,
the
only
wbject
of
the
agree-
ment
being to
assure
Persiz,
an
oppor-
tunity to werk
out
her
destiny
as
an
independent
coun:ry,
taid
larl Curson,
Governmen.
lead:r
ir
the
Hbouse
of
[ ords
ind Fresid:nt
of
the
coincil
in
syeakizg
a
a
dnner
giver
hore
last
night
in
Lkonour
of
the
I'oreign
lin-
ister
of Persia.
“he
speak:r
udmifted
tiere
nad
been
misunderstancings
of
the treaty,
but
said
there
wis
no
gre und
for suspicior,
as
woull
be
p.cved
bv
the working out of the
agreemen:.
""An
eva of
*haos
and ¢)nfus
on in Asia’’
wes
forecast
by
Lord
Curson,
who
leel red
it woull
be
some
tim2
be ‘ore
sradili-
tv is rastored
in
cegions for nerly
dom-
irated
oy
Rissia
and
Turk:@wy.”
Waen
we spe.k of theirdeper
denc
:of Perein.’
Earl Curson
said,
‘‘me:ning
the
pcliti-
¢zl
anc.
natoonal
indevendeace
of
the
ccuntry,
Iconcede
now
as
I
have
al-
ways conceded
thet
the
indenendence
of
Porsia
:s
a britisk
as vell
2s
a Pervian
interest.
Inleed,
our
main
interest
in
Porsia
is
is
indeperdence.
We
do
nct
want
Pcrsia
to
be
a
riere
buifer
against
our cnemizs.
‘We
want
her
to
be abu
wark for the
peace
of
the
wcrld
ard I cen assire
our
gust
he neel
h:.ve
no
fears
upcn
trat
yoiut.
W 3 sihall
respect
the
ndep-'nderce
of
his
con-
tr.
We
dic
not
ask
¢t
the
peesce
eo)n-
te ence
for a mancate
i1 res)ect
to Par-
sir.
+
Bad
it
beer
offered,
we
shoild
not have accepted
it.
1
@&om 0t
belicve
fo'a
momen:
tha:
Persia
would
h:ve
asiied forit.
We
prefe-
to
trace
wth
Persia
as
a partier
o
equal
terris,
wi-h
thkat
countr’
en oying
her
own
sovereign
anc capaole
of
deal ng with us
on terms of partne.ship.
I
d>
not
ecn-
cexl
from myself,
hat
‘ully as
we
un-
derstand
the
agrcement
corcludad
be-
tween
us,
suspiciois
have
boen
arous-
ed as
to its real churacter.
T.ese
susoi-
cions rest
in the
riain
upon
a
misccn-
ception, which shoald not be
difficult to
reraove.
1
usee
i1
is stated
in
sorie
quarters
that this cigreement
is a
veilad
prctectorate
by Great
Britain.
I take
it
that
a protectorate
means
some
a:surm p-
tion of exclus ve re;pons bility and
sotrae
curtailment
or restriction
in the
protect-