ginia
Eleoek,
W.
Roebuck& daughter,
George
Me Kellin,
Mary Cornelius.
For St. Thomas:—Allan George,
Rafael
Pannitt,
Jose
M. Soreta.
R.
Hansen.
U. S. PRESS
NEWS.
WASHINGTON:
Thirty Planes
were
destroyed
in the fire
which
caused
dam-
age
estimated
to
two hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
to the Naval Air Station
at
Anacostia
late
yesterday
afternoon.
Two wooden
hangers
in which
the planes
were
kept
were
demolished
as
well
as
half a dozen
building housings,
machine-
shops.
the
stock
and tool
rooms.
Seven
additional
planes
which
had
not
been
com
letely assembled
were alsc
destroy-
ed.
There
was
no loss
of life; the
build-
‘ing being deserted
at
the time.
The fire
was caused
by defective wiring.
BOSTON:
The Yacht Cruiser Dolphin
left
here
yesterday
with Rear
Admiral
Henry F.
Bryan
in command,
byund
tor
South
America
to serve
as
flag-snip of
a
special squadron
which
has
been
organiz-
ed
for a mission
to Latin, Awerica.
The
squadron’s
first call
will
be
Valpariso,
Chili,
to represent
the
customary
cele-
bration commemorating
the discovery
of
the Straits of Magellan.
WASHINGTON:
John
Moran,
Chief
of the United States
Secret
Service,
gave
warning against
the purchase
of
bonded
tvhisky.
A
vast number
of bottles
with
counterfeit international
revenue
stamps
have
been
adixed
are
being
sold
by
bootleggers,
he
said.
It
is
frequently
only wood alcohol
or
worse.
WASHINGTON:
The Shipping
Board
refused
a bid of
three
million dollars
for
the liner Leviathan.
A request from the
Department
of
Labor
that
the
steamer
be ‘turned over
to Ellis Island for
use
in
housing
immigrants
alsc
has
been
re-
fused.
DELLAS, TEXAS:
The
new Mexican
Government
will recognize
all legal
for-
eign debts of
Mexico and
all legal rights
of
Mexicans
and
foreigners
alike,
says
General
Alvaro Obregon,
President-elect
of Mexico, who assnmes
office December
finst.
If the United
States
will
recog-
nize
Mexico
and
the
Government
of
Alfredo
Ne La
Huertv,
he
will do
the
right thing.
Mexico in future will not do
anything against
morality
and
honesty.
WASHINGTON:
Two
great
Fleets
will bs
sent
around
the
world
by
the
Navy
Depart.nent
starting
next
June,
Secretary
Daniels
announced
yesterday.
The
demonstraticn
will
be the
greatest
made
by
any
nation,
and
will
have
twice the power
of"the
Fleet
Roosevelt
sent around
the world in niaeteen
eight.
WASHINGTON
:
Thorough
investiga-
tion of the fire at the Naval
Air Station
at Anacostia
has
been
ordered
by Cap-
tain J. H. Kayton.
Commandant
of
the
Washington
Navy Yard.
WASH(NGTON:
During the
last few
weeks
ther.
has
been
a net gain of
five
g R
&aNY
G
thousand
enlistments
in
the Navy
over
seperation
from the
gervice
on
expira
tion of
the enlistment period,
and
Navy
Officials
and
recruiting
officers
believe
that this rate
of increase
can
be
main-
tained
or bettered.
LONDON:
MacSwiney.
Lord
Mayor
of Cork,
passed
a
very
good
night
at
Brixton
prison, accoueng
to
bulletins.
His physician
announced
1f
Mac®winey
became
unconscious
he would
try
to
do
all
he
could to
save
his life and
would
feed him
as far
as he could while he
was
unconscious.
COUORK:
The
death
last night of
Mit-
chell Emerald,
first oi the hunger
strik-
ers
to succumb
as the result
of their
fast
of more
than
two months,
probably
wili
have
a bad effect
on other
hunger
strik-
ers,
twoof whom
are
very low.
TELEGRAMNS.
ST.
GROIIX STATION.
Paris,
Oct.
14th.---M.
bßourgeois
has
teiegraphed
to the military rission
of the
League
of Nations
in Poland
that the
Po-
lish
Govi.
has deelared
its
disapproval
of the attitude of
Genl.
Beligowski
and
is ready
to take
the
necessary
steps
for
remedying
the regrettable
incident.
Paris,
Oct.
14th.—The
United
States
Ambassador,
in the
course
of
a
speech
at
a
largely
attended
dinner,
recalied
the
influence
of
the
new
world
in
the
issue
of
the
war
in
support
of
justice
and
right.
It
was
a sign,
he
said,
that
the
two
hemispheres
ghould
be
closely
united,
because
after
having
delivered
the
world fron
an
imperial
despotism,
such
a
union
may
be called
upon
to
save
it from
the claws
of
a
savage
and
bar-
barous
proletariat.
Dr.
Pecanna,
ex-
President
of Brazil,
in the
name
of
the
representatives
of
the
American
nations
expressed
their most
sincere
wishes
for
the prosperity
of Kurope
and
especial-
ly of
France
whose genius,
he
declared
the
world
can
never
too
greatly
ad-
mire.
He
urged
the
solidarity
of
the
two
worlds
for
the
triutaph
of
those
principles
of liberty
and
justice
which
should
lead
to
the
re-establishment
of
the equilibrium of their peoples.
Washington,
Oct.
16th.—Officials
at
the
State
Department
declared
today
it was not thought that the United States
would be
represented
in
any
manner
uat
the first
meeting of the
League
of
Na-
tions,
which
will take place
at
Geneva
on the fifteenth of November next.
The
American
delegates
who
were present
at
the recent
meetings
of
the League,
such
as the Financial
Conference
:nd the
In-
ternational
Labour
Conference,
Brus-
sels,
assisted
only
as
observers,
in
the
same
way
as Ambassador
Johnson
assist-
ed
last
Spring
in
the
meeting
at
San
Remo.
London,
Oct.
16th.— With
one
million
miners
on strike this evening,
thousands
of workmen
on the
docks and
in
indus-
tries already without work and the wcrk-
men
of
the
transport
companies
and
the railways summoned
soon
(o
discuss
the question of a sympathetic
strike, Eny-
land finds herself facing the
greatest
in-
dustrial revolution
of her history,
iu
the
opinion
of political
and
labour
leaders
who discussed
the
situation
today.
Mr.
Lloyd George
has
addressed
a
iicssage
to
the nation
relative
to the
strike,
in
whieh
he
says
that
the
Government
had
done all in its power
to avoid this calamity,
but that
the
miners,
rejecting
all offers,
attempted
to
gain their
ends
by
force.
The nation,
he declares,
will resist
these
attacks
with all its
strengih
and
the
re-
sult
is not doubtiul.
Milan,
Oect.
16th.—According
to
the
newspaper
‘‘Perseveranza’’,
a widespread
anarchist
plot has
been
discovered
in this
city.
The arrest
of the
editorial
staft of
the anarchist
journal
'‘'Unanita
Nuovo™
which
took place
yesterday,
was
the first
step
taken against
the
piot
and
will
be
followed
by other imiportant
arrests,
per-
haps
including
the
anarchist
Malatest,
director of
the journal.
Paris.
Oect.
17th.—A
despateck
from
[Liege
announces
the
deatii
from
pneu-
monia of General
Leman,
the
leader
of
the glorious defence
of that city
in
1914.
Liile, Oct.
17th.—Marshai
Betain'
pre-
sided
at
the
fetes
celebrating
the
de-
liverance
of Lille from
the
yoke of
Ger-
many.
Paris,
Oct.
17th- -At
the
opening
of
the
anti-tuberculosis
congress
M.
bre
ton,
Minister
of Fublic
Health,
empha-
sized
the urgency
of a campaign
against
the
scourge.
He
praised
the
generous
cooperation
of
the
United
States
and
particulariy that
of the Rockfeller
Com-
mission.
:
Dallas,
Texas,
Oect.
17th.— General
Alvare Übregon,
President
elect of Mex-
ico,
who will
assume
his
duties
cn
the
first
of December
next,
declared
at
ap
international
banquet
here
yesterday
that
the
new
Mexican
Govt. would
re-
cognize
all
legal foreign
and
all
the
rights
of
Mexicans
and
foreigners
in
Mexico.
This
declaration
followed
an
address
of
welcome
from
the
Govern-
ment
of Texas
in which
he declared
that
as
far
as
Texas
was concerned
General
Obregon
was
already
reccgnized.
jte
General
furiher
said
Le
wus
siire
(hat
the United
States
wcuid
reccgnize
ihe
new
Govt.
of
Mexico
s
scen
as
ipe
stableness
ard
the
intenticrs
vere
1100 y
known
by the public.
Femeraxa,
Uelo
L~
C
€
B
Davis,Leputy Colonial Treccvrer,
vl
tos
been
appointed
Auditer
Cerers:
o1
Ju
Waien,
lell
yesteroey
iy 8.1.
N &
Lollpmewiine
1o
Izke
uvp
Fis
rewm
gp.
pointm.ent,
Havana,
Cct.
18th.—
Menters
¢f
ihe
crew
Os the
schecrer
W
F. Fes:h
vege
lost ¢fi
Sentisge
ce
(ils,
iciicwirg
g
collision
with the An cricen
steemn r (230
Mambke.
Ihe sclccrer
iscirkirp.
Sle
mistcok
the signal f
the
(zye
Mente,
the Captain reports.