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81-DS
are
requested
for delivery
of
following articles
of fuel from Jan-
~uvary Ist 1923 to March 3ist 1923.
Christiansted
Municipal Hospital:
WoobD:
about
3 loads
per
week.
( HARCOAL: about5 bags
per week.
Fredertksted
Municipal Hospital:
WooD: about
5 loads per
week.
-
CHARCOAL:
about
2 bags
per week.
Insane
Asylum at Richmond:
-
-
WooD:
about
6 loads
per week.
Lener Asyluw:
:
:
WoobD:
abcut
4 loads
per week.
A losd of wood
to be
a
§
size
cart weil
packed
with ordinary gond burring wood
4 feet long.
ard 23 loacs
shall
make
one
(1) cord.
A bag of charcoal
to
hold
€
kerosene
tins of good hardwood coal.
Delivery
of
Wood
and
Charcoal
must
be
made
at
the Institutions
and
placed
as requested
by Hospital Officials.
.
Bids
should
be
addressed
to
Chief
'
'Municipal
Physician,
Christiansted,
St.
Croix,
and
must
be .to
hand
not
later
than
Deeember
24th
1922.
L
H. M.
STENHOUSE,
;
Chief Municipal Physician,
:
St.
Croi.
stand
being away from
us any
longer.—
St.
Thomas
Times,
Dec.
16th.
£
OUR PORT FACILITIES.
One of the
glaring
deficiencies
in our
~
port facilities
came
to
light
with the
re-
cent
visit
of
the
Munson
Liner,
Pan-
America.
The
vessel left with only half
of the expected
supply
of fresh
water.
It was reported
that
this
was
duz
toa
brcken
pump
at the
Shipping Board
Sta-
tion: but
a survey of the water-front,
in-
cluding the West
India Company’s
wharf
would show
that- the facilities
for
sup-
plying
water
in large
quantities
at
a
reasonable
rapid
rate,
are
exceedingly
limited.
What
this
Port
needs,
and
this
paper
advocates
is
a good
100 ton
lighter witb a
six-inch
high
power
dis-
' charge
pump.
Our
harbour
is
large
epough
to hold six or more
such
vessels
as the Pan-America,
and ifwe vwish these
big vessels, to call at this port,
we
should
bhave the necessary
facilities for supplying
their needs, particularly
with the primary-
requirements
of fuel and water.—lbid.
.
TELEGRANMS
=
ST. CROIX STATION
Belfast, Dec. 156th.—Hope for a speedy
.
meeting
between
the
representative
of
Ulster
and
of
the
Irish
Free
State
to
reach
an
agreement
on
the
questions
affecting both sections
was
expressed
by
ST.
CRU 11X
AVIS
the
Duke of Abercorn,
the new Governor
of Northern Ireland, in his first speech
to
the Ulster House
yesterday.
‘'l desire’’,
he sald, ‘‘toexpress
my earnest
hope that
the time may not be far distant
when the
executive of the Irish Free State
and the
executive of Northern
Ireland,
may
meat
to sa2ttle
in amicable
fashion
those
ques-
tions
outstanding
which
affect
both
areas’’.
e
:
London,
Dec.
15th.—The
bill
to
lift
the embargo
on Canadian
cattle
has
been
read
the third time in the House of Lords
and
has received
the Royal
assent.
London,
Dec.
15th.—Lieutenant
Gen-
eral Sir George:
Montague
Harper, K.
C.
B.
G. O. ~ the southern
command
since
1919,
was killed, and
Lady
Harper
was
seriously
injured
today
through
their
motor
car skidding into a bank end
over
turning
near Sherborne,
Dublin, Dee.
15th.—For the
first
time
in many
a day the Union
Jack
was
seen
in
the
Streets
of
Dublin
today,
in
the
hands
of people
on
the
streets.
They
were
being
waved
by members
of
the
crowds seeing
off
the
British
soldiers,
who are going home
in the
course
of
the
removal
of the last of
the
British
troops
from
Free
State
territory.
Cheers
for
the
departing
troops
came
from:
the
crowds
on the'O’Conuel bridge.
-
and
one
old gentleman
presented
the officers
with
Christmas
cards.
:
:
e
Paris,
Dee.
15th.—M.
Poincare,
after
sketching
b:iefly and
optimistically
the
progress
of the reparations
and
Turkish
peace
negotiations,- told.the Chamber
of
Deputies
.today
that
he
was
ready
to
withdraw “‘gracefully’”’ if
the
Chamber
thought
it had ready
another
Cabinet
better
qualified
than
this
to
work
for
France.
s
London
Dec¢
15th —‘'f'rom.
a
mass
of
evidence which I have in
my
possession
I am quite certain
that trade
is definitely
reviving’’ 'declared
Sir
Phillip
Lloyd
Greame,
President
of the Board of Trade,
in a
speech
in the
House
of Commons
last
night.
‘Isay
that with
a full sense
of responsibility”’, he added
"‘and
I
am
absolutely certain
that it is
not
consider-
ed
to be one branch
of trade
or
another,
but
a general revival
is
being
shown
in
.many
oranches
of
industry
and
trade’’.
Sir Philip
said
the
Govt’s. duty
was
to
help,
not
hinder
the
revival.
It
must
have
courage
to say
no,
when
this
was
advisable
and to refrain
from
taking
ac-
tion detrimental
to
the
general
revival
of trade.
‘Washington.
Dee.
15th.—Administra-
tion officials believe that
American
influ-
ence
can
be
&mployed
to
heip
towards
a
solution
of the
Geiman
reparations
problem.
That
feeling
was
voiced
au-
thoritative today at the White House.
It
was added,
however,
that
no
announce:
ment
pow
was’ possible
or
even
immi-
n:nt.
Things
may be occurring
behiud
the scenes,
it
was
said,
'‘cannot
be
ex-
hibited on'the
stage’’ at
this
time
with-
out prejudice
abroad
to
the
very
cause
the
Washington
Govt.
hopes
to serve.
Lausanne,
Dec.
15th- -The
rich
Mbjsul
oil fields
in Mesopotamia
suddenly
jumo-
ed
tn the fore tonight
as
a
big
issue
in
the
Near
East
peace
conference.
It is
reported
the
Entente
nations
have
in-
formed
the
Turks that
the
vilayet of
Mosul cannot
be
considered
as
detached
from
the
Arab
Realm
in
Jriq.
Tilis
would
mean
that the Allies
have
decided
to admit the Turkish
co
tention,
that the
Mosul
is. within the
corfines
of Turk'y
proper
and
consequently
Tutrkey
hasio
right
to dispose
of the Musol
oil
conces-
sions.
By insisting that
Mosul lies wit.
-
in Iraq, which is part
of Mesopotamis,
the Allies, it is'asserted,
will declare that
it comes
under
the British mandate,
since
‘Messopotamia
is assigned
to Great Britain
‘under formal
mandate.
It is further
re-
ported
that
Great Britain
and
France
have
reached
an. agreement
over
the
Musol oil question.
-
.
:
Ronie,
Deec.
156th.--At
a “abinet
meet-
ing this afternoon,
a few hours
after his
return
from the Londen Conference,
Pre-
mier Mussolini
reported
that the confe-
ence
had been unsatisfactory
on
account
of insufficient
preparations.
He declared
he would
not
attend
the discussions
when
they were
resumed
at Paris
unless
there
was
suitable
diplomatic
preparation
be-
forehand..
He
declared
further
there
must
be
no more
going
back
on decisions,
.as
vacillation spelled failure.
The Italian
plan
was one which,
in his opinion,
must
eventually
be followed.
The plan
which
M. Mussolini presented
at the conference
in London was published
here
today
and
it
contains
nothing
about
the
Tlnited
States.
[t declared,
however,
that
not
even
the wealthy countries
on both
sides
of
the Atlantic vill be able
to escape
the
grave
effects
of continuance
of the
un-
satisfactory
post-war
conditions
of
tle
past
four years.
It maintains
that it w1
be utterly iniquitous to ruin Italy, France
and
Belgium
for
the
sake
of restorirg
Germany
and
that in dealing with the
I¢-
parations
proolems
the
in er-allied
i
-
debtedness
canuot
be left aside.
London,
Dec.l7th.—Prince
George,
the
King’s
youngest
son,
will
be
operated
for appendicitis aimost
immediately,
ac-
cording
te the Daily Mail. Prince George
is twenty years
old and
is
a naval
cadet.
His brother,the
Duke of Yurk, the King’s
second
son,
underwent.a
similar
opera-
tion in 1914,
Paris,
Dec.
16th. —The
Chamber
of De-
puties
prolorged
its
kriday’s sitting
to
the
:small.
hours
of
the
inorning,
when
the
Poincare
Gnv’t.
was given
a vote of
_confidence.
M. Poinecare’s
statement
of
policy fuily satisfied
the
house.
Poincare
said, ‘'l earnestly
entreat
the Chamber
to
put
away
for
the
time
being
ail
con-
siderations
of
domestic
and
particularly
electoral
politics until afrer
the
negotia-
tions.
-1
only
ask for'a
week’s credit.
The
Chamber
is
surz
to find
me
on this
rostrum
to explain
myself
fully on
the
domestic
policy of the Gov’t. on the day
that the foreign
policy
has
achieved
its
aim.
i