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Household
and
Personal
Articles,
suitable
for
Christmas Gifts,
also
,
A fine assortment
of Toys
are
now being
opened
out, at
the
store of
ixobert Arm’strong.
Christiansted,
St.Aoix
Ist
De-
cember
1921.
L/
AT
JOHN/ALEXANDER.,
Tuck’s Christmas
Post
Cards.
“The
most
welcome,
Artistic
and
Up-to-date”
sed®by Royalty, Society
and
the
Great
Public,
LLOCAL.
The
S.
8.
W.
M.
Tupper
sailed
from
New
York on
Monday
evening,
having
93 tons of cargo for
Christiansted
and
72
tons for Frederiksted.
The
next
sailing
will
be
the
S.
S.
El
Monte on the 10th inst.
The ‘Creole’’ arrived
here
at*> 15 p.m.
yesterday
with 66 bags
mail, 41 for Chris-
tiansted
an
i1 25 for Frederiksted,
includ-
ing
an
unexpected
dispatch
from
the
tates
by the
U. 8. transport
“‘Cambrai’’
via San Juan,
P. R.,
as it is learnt
at
the
post
office
.
The
s.
s.
‘‘Fort St. George’’
from New
York
is
due
at¥Frederiksted
to-morrow
morning,
2nd inst.,
she
has
quite
a
num-
ber
of tourist
passengers.
She will accept
Cabin
passengers
for
the Islands
and will remain
in Frederik-
sted
all
day, sailing
at
5
p.
m.
for
St.
Kitts.
Totten Fighis
Alone For
Vir-
gin Islands.
Wholly because
he believes
that
he has
not
b
en
treated
fairly by
certain
per-
sons
who
are
maliciously
agaiost
him,
Mr.
Totten
refuses
to
affiliate
himself
with any particular organization
in Amer-
ica which
has
as its purpose
better
con-
ditions in the islands.
Whatever
he
does,
if
accomplished
will be wholly to his credit.
.
21
8 B01X
AVIS
He
will
offer
his
assistance
at
any
time,
to
further
the aims
of all organiz- |
ed
groups if accept~ ; but he
expresses
great fear of any closel association
where
he i: likely to
come
in contact
with
the
selfish
and
malicious,
vho
have
no
res-
pect for
any other
persons
feelings
but
their
own.
In
several
of
the daily
papers
of New
York,
Chicago,
Boston
and Washington
there
appeared
brief
articles
wricten
by
Mr. Totten
the purpose
of which was
to
m-'-~1 __wn
to twelve
thousand
or more
.iwrein [slanders
residing
in America
and
tbeir
many
friends
that
a
Christmas
benefit
for
the
poor,
aged and
infirm ir
the
islands
should
be
made
a
suc¢ss
and
sent
in due
time.
J
;
He
also
reminded
them
tha
there
are
several
little
orphan
e¢hi'
:n
who
should
know
a
little
about
Santa
Claus,
through
giits
e
toys
and
candies.
The
writer
is
pléased
to
reproduce
a copy of Mr. Totten’s
latest
publication in the
American
newspapers
which
is
with reference
to
the
citizen-
ship status
of the Virgin Islanders
in th
United
States.
The clause
eferred
to in A’
oix of
the
Sale Treaty reads
as fr’'
ws :-
Fhose
(Danish
citizens)
who
remain
in
the
islands
may
retain
their citizén-
ship with Denmark
within
one year after
the
ratification of this Treary by
so
de-
claring themselves
before
a €ourt
of Re-
|
cord
.n
default
of which
they shall
be
held
to have renounced
it,
and
to
have
|
accepted
citizenship
in the
United States.
Mr,
Totten
has
several
letters
from
the State Department,
the
Bureau
of Na
turalization,
the
Board
of
Electors
and
the Attorney
General
all
of
which
con-
tradict
each
other
:
Ile has
the matter
before
a
Senator
at
ne present
time,
who
has
promésied
to
bring it
up
for
discussion
in
the
very
near future. —Conéributed.
CITIZENSHIP
STATUS
OF THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS
By ASHLEY
L. TOTTEN.
|
Decidedly
unfair
and
detrimental
to
the future develo ment
of the Virgin Is-
lands
is
the
fact that the native
bornin
the islanas
have
no
citizenship status.
|
fhey
are
not
accepted
as
citizens
in
the
United
States,
and
enjoy hardl’ any
political rights
based
upon
American
principles.
:
|
The. three Islands
came
into the hands
of Unc.2 Sam during the
Wilson
adminis-
traeion
« litrle
over four
years
ago.
I'ne
bcne
of
contention
advanced
by
natives
wi
delieve
they should
have
the
full rights
~f citizenship
is based
upon
Article Six of
"he
Siate
[reaty between
Penmark
and
ti~ United
States.
Surely,
it would
.~ perfectly
absurd
to
Interpret
it
to
be
tnat
a
Dane
born
in
Denmark
is
classified
as
=n
American
citizen
and
the
native
bori,
hitants
are not.
,
And if tkf natives
or
Danish
citizens
|
at
the timefremained
mute, taking advan-
|
tage
of
.}
language
expressed
in this
.
clase,
wilF¥
is it that they
are
not
consid-
. ered
Amf.can
citizens?
'
Sineeftheir
transfer,
Congress
has
"
ruled
tJat
the natives
are
only consider-
.
ed as#Ping
under
the
protection
of the
"
Unid
States,
and
has
disregarded
the
intelff
cetation
of
their
own
law
which
wadl
drafted
by
them
and ratified since
JaW
ary
17,
1917,
:
|
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TELEGRAMS.
|
ST. CROIX STATION.
‘
Quebec,
Nov. 26th.— Nith
the official
close
of navigation
here
vyesterday,
it
.
was
announced
that
approximately
eighty
thousand
immigrants
had
passed
¢
through
this port during the
navigation
season
of 1921.
Constantinople,
Nov.
27th -- Mustapha
Kemal
Pasha,
head of the
Turkish
Na-
Aionalist
Govt.
has refused
to
receivedht
Angora,
his capital,
the
British
Mission
ent to discuss
peace
hetween
the
Turks
axd the
Greeks
in
Anatolia.
Appavently
|
w\h
the
intention
of impressing
upon
the
mission
that
he
is
not
anxious
for
peace,
Mustapha
Kemal
Fasha
has
di-
rected
that it be received
at
Tiviboli,
a
small
Black
Sea
port,
by the Minisier
of
'
War,
and Rafeta
Pasha,
Commarder
of
'
the
Nationalists
Western
Army.
It is
.
reported
on good
authority here
that
a
.
British officer has
gone
to the
Anatolian
front
to arrange
a meeting
between
Mus-
tapha
Kemal
and Brigadier
General
Sir
Charles
Harington.
An
attempt
to
ar-
range
such
a
meeting
in
July
of
the
present
year
was unsuccessiul,
owing, it
was
said,
to
the
Turkish
leader’s
atti-
tude
Paris,
Nov
29th—Lord
Hardinge,
British
..
auor
to
France,
-called
at
the
Cuai
D’Orsay
on
Saturday
and
informed
the
Governmient
that
Great
Britain is
considering
the
sending of a*
.
warship
to the
Asia Minor
port of
Mer-
.
sina
for the defence
of
British interests
|
if need
arises.
Great
Britain,
it
is de
.
declared,
will act in this
matter
in agree-
.
ment
with
France.
Denials
from
Lon-
~
don of a reported
concentration
of British
.
troops
at
Cyprus
and
debarkation
of
'
these
troops
at
Mersina
and elsewhere
|
says
a
semi-official
note
on
the subject,
|
|
have
reduced
the
matter
to
its
true
|
.
proportions,
Great Britain
having
shown
.
that
the
attitude
of France
not only 18
.
_correct,
but courteously
friendly.
|
Trinidad,
Nov.
28th.
—From
Ist.
D
.
cember
there
will
ea similar increase,
|
most
respects
in
the
rates
of post?”
~
from this
Colony
as that announced
f(m
i
Demerara.
,
Waterbury,
Conn.,
Nov. 28th.—"/(;§
|
battleship
is
no
~oger
the
backbon,,~
|
the
navy’’
declared
Vice-admiral
!
|
President
of
the
Naval
War
Col
|
speaking
aere
last
night.
‘'The
'
.
~hin hag
no defense
agalnst
aiv”