Mails Close
for
the
United
States
and
other
places
via New York
by
s.
s.
“Pa-
ria’’ at-5 o’clock this arternoon
LOCAL
5
lises
of rain
was
measured
at
the
Fort this morning. Kingshill
2 and Fred-
eriksted
1 line,
The
s.
s.
*'Paria’’
is
due
at Frederik-
sted today at
1 o’clock,
anl
is
expected
to
sail
for
New
York
tomorrow
noon.
Mails by her will
be
closed
in Christian-
sted
Post
Office
at
5
o’clock this after-
noon.
The
Mizpah
from
St.
Thomas
with
mails,
cargo
and
passengers
arrived here
vesterday
afternoon.
[he
s.s.
""Byivar” from
New
York
via
Frederiksted
arrived
here
at
noon
vesterday
and
after
discharging
her
cargo
sailed
at
4
p.
m. for
the
islands.
She
brought
fourteen
bags
of
mail
for
this town.
We beg to welcome
back
to
the island
Mr. J. B
Gebhart,
Public
Works Officer,
who arr.ved
here
yesterday
by the
s.
s.
**Bolivar’’.
Two new instruments
(cornet
and clari-
net)
were
received
by
the Native Brass
Band
on Tuesday
by the
s. 8. "‘Surinam’’.
The subject,
""JESUS THE MESSIAH,
IS COMING AGAIN’"will be preached
by
Elder
F. Hall
at
the
Adventist
Church
Sunday
night the
16th
inst.
This
truth
is
no
cunningly
devised
myth;
it is based
upon
eleven
lines
of
prophecy
that the Master
Himself
gave
when
upoun earth
the
first
time.””
Bap-
tism
will be held at the
sea Saturday
or
Sabbath
morning the
15th.—Com.
St. Thomas News
The enrollment
during
the
first
week
of Jschool
was
about
the
same
as
that
ot last
year,
and divided
as follows:
Grades
1,200:
11,
188:
111
237:
1V
o 0 Y. 0:
¥l.
188:
Y.
10y
YL
34; IX, 17; X, 20; XI, 3; XII, 6; making
a total of 1,515.
This
year’s
enrollment
shows
an
in-
crease
in the high school
of 74 pupils,
the
number
being
185 enrolled
as
compared
to 109 last year.
:
In
Grade
I,
there
are
enrolled
200,
which
shows
a
decrease
of
52 chlidren
from last year’s enrollment for
the same
grade.
—The St. Thomas Times, Sept. Bth.
The
Department
of
Eduecation
now
boasts
of a complete
s:aior
high
schoo!,
ST
&1 3
22
with pupils
in
the teath,
eleventh, and
twelfth
grades.
At
the present
time
there is.sucha demand
for
the
services
of
high
school
s*tudents:
that
it
will be
very
difficult
to
keep
them
in
sc'
sol.
Two
stuldents
from
the
tenth and <lev-
enth
grades,
respeciively,
have
already
left
for
more
lucrative
employment,—
Ihid.
:
.
TELEGRAMS.
.
ST..
CROIX STATION..
London,
Sept.
11th.—Typhoid
and
dysentery
have bruken
¢
t in Tokio and
there
is great need
for
.edical
supplies
says
a
despatech
to
th
Daily
Express
dated
Sunday.
Distressing
scenes
are
being witnessed
daily,
as
the
foreigners
and
Japanese
continue
their
search
of
tie ruins for relatives.
Many bodies
-are
still lying in the streets.
The
British and
United States Embassies
have
establisn-
ed
headquarters
in the
Imperial Hotgl,
which
escaped
demolition.
A
group
of
foreigners
marooned
at
Miyadsobhita,
a
Summer
resort
in
the
Hakone
district,
have .ben
rescued,
many
Japanese
have
begun
to
build
homes
of some
kind,
in
order
to
protect
themselves
from
the
elements.
:
London,
Sept.
11th.—A special Iheelir g
of
the first
committee
of the League of
Nations,
which deals
with allinternatio
-
al leg@l
affairs,
has
been
summoned
to
meet
tomorrow
to hear
Sir Lomer Gouin,
the federal
minister of justice
and
Cana-
da’s representative
tothe League
present
the
case
for the dominion
for the ameunéd
ment of article
10.
:
London,3Sept,
11th.--A
Central News
despatch
from Berlin
says
it is
report-d
from
Moscow %Pat
Leon
Trotzky,
the
Russian
Soviet War Minister. has been
as-
sassinated.
No details
are given.
There
is no confirmation of the report.
San Diego, Sept.
11th,.—Navy
aviato-s
are depended
upon
by
scientists
to fur-
nish
them
with plotographs
showing
the
corona
of
the
sun.
Fifteen
airplanes
from the U S battle fleet
squadrons
took
to the air more than
an
hour
before the
totality period
of yesterday’s
eclipse of
the
sun and each of them
rose
to
more
than
16,000 feet,
considerably
above
the
foz and cloud banks
that
interfered
with
the view fro.n the ground.
Many photo-
graphs
of the eclipsc
were made.
Scien-
tists
at
Point
Lota
stated
that
because
of
adverse
conditions
prevailing.
the
eclipse observations
were unsatisfactory.
London,
Sept.
11th.—Three
syndica-
lists
attempted
to as:assinate
Premier
Sylva of Portugal
today,
according toa
Lisbon
despatch
to
the
Central
News.
The attempt
was unsuccessful.
Berlin,
Sept.
lith.—The
Soviet
Em-
bassy
here
deseribes
the reports
of a re-
volt at Moscow and
the assassination
of
Leon Trotzky, the
war minister,
as fabri-
cations.
:
Geneva,
Sept..
11th.—Believing
that
any comment
on
his part
wvould
be
un-
timely and liable to
comyplicate
the
situ-
ation, Lord Robert
Cecil
has
abandoned
the plan he announced
yesterday
of mak-
ing
_today
a
detailed
statement
on the
Gredo Italian contrav:rsy, especially from
the standpoint
of the League of Nations.
Lord Robert had indicated
that he would
summarize
the situation
to the
represen-
tatives of the press
here.
Athens,
Sept.
11th. -The
crisis
be-
tween [taly and
Serbia
over
the
Fiume
question
is
causing
grave
anxiety here,
where
it
is looked
upon
as
a
possible
menace
‘o immediate
adjustment
of the
Greco-Italian
situation.
It is feared
that
in the event of hostilities,
Ttaly willfind
some
pretext
to continue
the
occupation
of the island of Corfu,
the occupation
of
which
seems
to be the
uppermnost
factor
in Greek circles.
Advices
from Balgrade
say that the populaca of the Jugo Slevian
capital is in a
state
of high
excitement
and that the
Government
will follow step
by
step
every
military
move
taken
by
Italy.
The Alban'ans
have
closed
their
Greek frontier, according
to private
ad-
vices,
and
are recruiting all men
of mili-
tary age
in the eastern
part
of
the
coun-
try.
Paris,
Sept.
11th.-——At
the
request
of
Baron
Avezzano,
[talian
Ambassador,
the
Ambassador
Chuneil
nostponed
its
meeting
this
afternoon
until
tomorrowy.
Baron
Avezzano said
that
he
had not yat
received
instructions
from
Rome regard-
ing the evacuation
of
Carfu.
Some
ner-
vousness
has
developel
here
over
the
efforts
to
settle
the
Corfu
occopation
before
the
measures
adopted
for
the
satisfaction
of Italy’s
demands
are
in-
augurated.
¥ The
feeling
in
French
cir-
cles
appears
to be that Italy ough' to
be
taken at her
word
and
withdraw
from
the Greek islands
as
soon
a3
the
terms
of the
Ambassadors
proposals
are
eom-
plied with.
Rome,
Sept.
lith.—Premier
Mussolini,
who
arrived
here
today
from
Milan,
where
he spent
the
week attending
the
Grand Prix auto
race,
went
immediately
to the Foreign Office to receive
the latest
reports concerning
the
Greco-Italian and
Jugo Slav-Italian
situations.
Later
he
sent
instructions
to the
Italian
Minister
at Athens
and
the Ambassadors
in Lon-
don.
Additional instructions
were issued
today
by the Ministers
of War
and
Ma-
rine
for preparations
made
necessary
by
the situation.
London,
Sept.
11th.—The
Greek
Gov-
ernment
has
arrested
eight
persons
suspected
of the murder of the members
of
the Italian
boundary
Commission
in
Janina,
according
to a. Rome despatch
to
the Central News.
The arrest
of Colonel
Botzaris,
Greek
member
of the
Greco-
Albanian boundary
commission,
is
said
to be imminent.
- Rome,
Sept.
11th.—It
was announced,
semi-officially today that Italy is not pre-
pared to consider
any mediation or
arbi-
tration
of
her
differences
with
Jugo-
Slavia
with
regard
to
the
status of