CORRECTION
In
yesterday’s
issue,
re
Native Bgass
Rand
*‘is’’should
be are instead reading:
“*Their zervices
to the public is much
ap-
preciated
and
we wish the
band all prose
perity.
Football.
The
Merry
Boys of Frederiksted
and
the Alert of this town
will play a match
at
Parade
Ground
on
Sunday
the 20th
inst.
The last match
between
these
two
clubs,
played
on
the Oval,
Frederiksted,
resulted
in a tie,
but
this
time both
are
coniident
of victory,
so the
game
is likely
to be
very interesting.
OFFICIAL NOTES.
14 May, 192°.
1.
The
following radiogram
were
ex-
changed
with Washington
today:
““For Governor
Hemty
H. Houxh.
Vir-
oin
Islands
of
Tlnited
States.
Please
wire
date
Lieut.
Comdr.
Gaffney
will
probably
arrive United
States.
His
ser-
vices needed
here
June thirtieth, if possi-
ble.
Bureauo:
S. and
A, |Navy
Depart-
ment.
“‘For Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,
Washington,
D.
C.
Your wire {orty-one
zoro
dash
ten
thirty-five.
Expected
[Lieutenant
Commander
Gaffney
will ar-
rive
United
States
via
Henderson
due
lampten
Roads
June
twenty-six,
Hen-
ry
H.
Hough,
Governor
of
the
Virgin
islands of the UUnited States.”’
2
The
Commanding
Of.icer
of
the
U.
S.
S. Henderson
has advised
His
Ex-
collency
the
Governor
that
dus
to
a
change
in
routing
he
will arvive
Saint
Thomas
May
sixteen.
There
are
on
hoard
the following passengers
for
this
port:
Commander
Wiiliam Seaman,
wife and
three
children,
Lieutenant
Commander
W.
S. Zane,
wife and
chiid,
Lieutenant
Commander
Ellis Stone,
wife and
child,
five Navy enlisted
men and twenty-seven
marines.
3.
Commander
Seaman
is
the
new
Medical
Aide,
Lieutenant
Commander
Stone
is
commander
W.
B. Decker’s
re-
lief
as
Chief
of Staff,
and
Lieutenant
Commander
W.
8.
Zane
is
Lieutenant
Commander
J. J. Gaffney’s
relief
as
[Mi-
nancial
Adviser
and
Government
Secre-
tary.
4.
Commander
Decker
sails
for
the
United
States
about
May
26
via the
U.
S.
S.
Kitrery,
Lieutenant
Commander
Gaffney departs
about
13 June, after two
years
and six months duty in the Islands.
5.
‘Tne rvelief of Lieutenant
C. E.
Rap-
polee,
Despatehing
Secretary,
St. Croix,
will also arrive via
the
May
Hend>rson.
‘T'he
now officer is Lieutenant
Roy
Bar-
rett.
He
is
aceompanied
by
bhis
wife.
It
is believed
that tieutenant
Rappolee
wiil return
to
the
United
States
in
the
51 iy
1
32 Y=
late Summer.
Mrs.
Rappolee sailed
for
her
home
in Washington;
D. C.
via
the
Guiana,
14 May.
-St. Thomas News
This
morning about
8.30
an alarm
of
fire
at the
Grand
Hotel was raised
but
whe~
willing hands
rushed
to the
spot
no trace
of it was found.
The
ladv—ocnre
of
the
boarders—who
gave
the alarm,
distinctly
saw
a
blaze
and
smoke
issuing
trom
between
the
floor boards.
It was probably
due
to
a
short
circut
of the electrie wiring.
Sergeant
Cruse
«f
the
Fire
Brigade
must
be complimented
for
the
swiftness
with
which he got or
t'e scere
and
the
energy
he displayed
in seeking
out
the
cause
for the
alarm.— St.
Thomas
Mail
Notes,
May 7th.
TELEGRAMS,
ST. CROIX STATION.
St. Johns,
N. F.,
May 11th.—Sir
Rich-
ard Squires
hes been
returned
to
powe
,
probably
by the majority
az on
the
geu-
eral election
of 1919.
London, May 11th.--The
Scviet
Govt.
of Russia
iv a note, replying to
the Brit-
ish
protest
against
the
seizure
of
the
Trawler
‘‘James
Johnson'’,
claims
tne
right to fix her limit of territorial
waters
at twelve miles from
shore
but offers
10
submit
the
matter
to arbitration,
pro-
vided
before
there
is
not
a
question
of
infringement
o1 Russian
Sovereignty
aid
independence.
Guayaquiil,
May
11th.—An
oil gusher
with an estimated
daily capacity
of five
hundred
barrels,
has
been opened
in Sake
Elena,
about
30 miles
southwest
of
this
City
by
the
Anglo-Ecuadorian
Oii-
fieids Limited.
DBecause
of
the
lack of
tanks
the oil
1s running
into the
sea.
Outawa,
day
12th.—The
budget
was
brought
doan
by
Mr.
Lielding
in
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday.
The
Minister of Finance
proposes
a
roductior
in the duties
of one half a
cent
per pound
on refined
sugar
and
the
dutv
on
raw
sugar
by about forty
cents
per
hundrd
pounds.
This,
Mr.
Fielding
estimates,
would meana
relief
of two
and
a
haif
million dollars
a year
to
the
consumers,
A dumping clause,
1t
was
stated,
would
not apply on sugar
from
Great Britain.
Ottawa,
May 12th.—In,reply
to the in
erease
in the duty imposed
on
Canadian
potatoes
by the Fordney
Tariff,
the
bud-
get speeca
today
contained
an
increase
in the
Canadian
duty
on
potatoes,
im-
ported
into
Canada
from
the
United
States
from 20 eents
p>r hundred
pounds,
to 33 cents.
The duty
on
Canadian
po-
tatoes
goinz
into
the
United
States
is
now 50 cents
per hundred
weight.
Ottawa,
May 12th.— I'he main features
of the budget
are
as
foilows:
Inerea:e
in the British preference
on
voods
snpip-
ped
through
Canadian
rivers
and
sea
ports.
Sales
tax
to
be
coilected
at
source,
at the rate
of six per
cent.
Re-
duction
in
sugar
duties.
Execise
dutes
on beet
sugar .dropped.
Cigarrette
tax,
reduction
to former rates,
Tax on
*‘soft
drinks’’ replaced
by tax on carbonic
acid
gras
used
in manufacturing
them.,
Boun-
ties granted
on
hemp
and
copper,
with
the ceasing
of bounties
an
manila,
linen,
thread
and petioleum.
New
items
cre-
a.ed
to
give protection
to
the
artificial
silk industry.
Duty increased
on raisines,
to aliow
offer
of substantial
preference
io be
mude
to
Australia.
Reduced
ex-
cise
on
Canadian
wines.
Raw
furs,
drain
tiles
for
farm
purposes,
ms&nu-
seripts
and
newsprint
to be
exempt
from
cales
tax
Paris,
May 12th.-—-A
new
German
re-
paration
oifer is expecied
to
grow out of
the
British
reply
to Chancellor
Cuno’s
note,
according
to well
informed
cireie-,
It
is
believed
here
that
the
Germuaus
have
been
considering
the plar
advanced
by the British
at the Paris
cunference
in
January,
with a
view
to ascertaining
if
certain
nod fizations
wou!ld
make
it
ace-
ceptable
to the French.
The present
sit-
uation
;s regarded
as
awkward
tor
the
Cuno
Governmert
znd
few
of
th.se
in
contact
with the jreparvation
problem
are
willii gto
ven
urea proptecy
as
to when
the
RRuhr deadlock
wiil be broken.
Constantinople,
May
12th,
- Rumours
are cireulated
hore of serious
revolution-
ary events
in
Bulgaria,
but
they cannot
be confirmed.
One report
is
that
5,000
Coztajis
(irregulars)
aie
approaching
Sofia,
the capital.
Washington,
May
12th.—Great
signifi-
cance
1s attacned
by the
""wets””
to
the
vigorous attitude
of the
British
Govern-
ment
toward
the
Soviet
Government,
becanse
of
the
seizure
of British
traw-
lers
outside
the
three
mile
imit.
The
“wets" declare
1t
indicates
plainly
the
“dry”’ forcees
here
cannot
carry
out
thewr
plan
to
exteud
the
three
mile
limit
to
twelve, i hout grave
international
com-
plications.
They will
make
use
of
the
Soviet seizures
aud
the protest
of
Great
Bri:
in to convinee
Congress
it
is unwise
to exr
na
thie three
mile
{imit
save
by
intern.tional
agreement.
~Washington,
May
12th.-A
joint
in-
qury by
represcntatives
of
the
Foreien
Governments
in Peking
as
to
the
cavses
whicth
made
possible
the
ecapture
of
Briiish, American
and cther
foreign
cit-
-Izens in
Shactunyg
by
Uninese
ban tas,
has
been agreed
to
by
tie
Chinese
Gov-
ernmont.
Moscow,
May 12th.— All Moscow’s fac-
tories and Government
institutions
were
closed
this
morning
to
permit
the
em-
ployees
to take
part
in
a
great
demon-
stration
against
the Biritish
not=2,
Surg-
ing erowds
early began
to fill the
strecis
of the city.
The
intent
of
the
demon-
strants
szemed
1o be peaceful,
bat
it ap-
peared
cvident
thev
mean:
to make
the
demonsrration
an
i npressive
one,