Poirtdext
-+ will b:
among
the
visicors,
as
thesc
two
v nilemen
are
deep'y
in-
tereste!
in
rhese
islands,
and
the
future
welfare
or cur p2ople.
We
a e very
sure
their visit will
mean
much for all concerned.
For the
municipalitv of St.
Uroix
ASHLEY L. TOTTEN.
.
Delegate
V. I. P. L.
U. S. NAVY PRESS
NEWS,
January
26,
1920.
BER JIN:
Mathias Erzberger,
Minis-
ter
of
I'inunce,
was
wcunded
by
shot
fired
at him
today,
He
was
shot
after
leaving cort
room after hearing in libel
case.
\s:iilant arrested.
WASHI" GTON:
‘“‘Russian
Soviet
or-
ganizaton-
pave
become
strong
enough
to fight th
world’’, Ludvig Martens,
So-
viet
Avent
to
the
United
Stares
today
tild
S-enaie
investrigating
Comwniittee.
Beecaus::
oi this,
hesaid,
the Soviats
had
ceased
o
urge
international
revoiations
to support
them.
Says
he
regards
Sovi-
ots
as
lecitimate
sueccessors
of
fsrmer
Russian
-
vernment
and
that
seventy
her
eent
of
the
people
suppor:
the
soviets.
LONDUN:
Dispateh
telling of
the
greetings
given
‘‘Reds’’ deported
from
,the
Un'ted
Srates
to
Russia
says,
'‘com-
/} rades
were gree'ed
with band playing and
cheers
‘rom ‘‘Red’” Army drawn
up
fac-
ing enemy
oidiers
on
other hand.”’
HALIF..X:
Disabied
i~ansport
‘‘Pow-
hatan’’ adrift
since
Saturday,
now
one
hundrel
miles
at
sea
1s again
in tow,
two
American
uzs
bringing
her
into
port.
Now
that
vcecking
tug's
relief
under
charter
to
War
Departinent
is
at
hand,
officials
hope
that
with tugs’
po'verful
pumps
the
transport
can be
kept
afloat
until she
recches
port.
She
was
foriner
Germat
liner and
is
included
in
tie list
¢
the
Shipping
Board
at
Washington.
sne
is
oeiny
offered
for sale
for
which
tenders
ar2
expected
tomorrow.
FLOLRENCE,
i'ALY:
A daring meet-
irg at
whicn
Aparchists
raised
a revolu-
tionary
monb
to
overcome
a
pariy
of
Carbiners,
who
defending
themselves
fired
a'
demonstrative
mob
wounding
seoras,
was hzid
aere.
:
e
MADISUN:
Asresult of infection
due
to his
teeth,
Senitor
La Follette
is in the
hospital.
ondition
said
not
to be
eriti-
cal.
:
CAUCASUJS.
SIBERIA:
*‘Colonel
Blunt
aad
::ven other
American
eagin-
e>rs,
Miss
Tord,
Captain
Chareit>
and
s:veral
1d
liional members
of the Ameri-
can Rad
Cross
and an eatire
Polish Army
h2ve be:n
captured
by Boisheviki’’
says
a zarbled
tel:gram from firmer
Ameri-
can Consul
.t Irkutsk.
WASHINGTON,
No
report
regard-
ing
the cap ure of Amerizans
in Siberia
nas
been
received
here
either at the War
Departoient,
State
Department
or
Red
Cross.
Som:
press
reports
this
after-
noon
state
that
this, if true,
may
delay
R g
ROl
X
AY]S
the withdrawai
of American
troops
from
Sib :ria.
V'ASHINGTON:
He rings
before
Sen-
ate
Sub-committee
on
Naval
Awards
prooably
will
ber:sumed
Friday,
at
wh.eh
time Secreta'y
Daniels
will take
the stand.
‘lestimcny
expected
to
take
abcut gtwo days,
and
committee
investi-
gat on
of entire
Naval
conduct
of
war
bas2d
on charges
made
by Admiral
Sims
doubtless
wiil
be reosorted
og the
middle
of next week.
°
GRAND
EAPIDS:
Veniremen,
wit-
nesses
and
a small
army
of
legal
talent
have arrived
here for
trial
which
opens
in 'ederalCourt
temorrow
of Truman
H.
Ne vberry ard
one
hundred
and thirty
sou
- others
charged
with corruption,
con-
spiraey and fraud
in
nineteen
eighteen
senatorial
election.
Possibllity
of delay
on’ neeount
of it being announced
that one
of the defencants
counsel’s
sick
with in-
fAuenza.
~
DETROIT:
George
Munroe,
Land-
lorc here,
wili force charge of manslaugh-
ter if baby
Broadb-eck,
sufferiig
with
double pheurionia,
dies.
Baby’s
father
charges
that
Landlo-d
turned
her out
of
department
because
family
would
not
pay
rent
in advance.
TELEGRAMS
ST.
CROIX STATION.
C hamounix,
France.
Jan.
253rd—French
and Italian engineers
have
Aarrived
here
to
study
the
grourd
for
the
proposed
tunaei
under
Mont Blane directly joinimg
France
and
{raly.
Both
Governments
hava started
prelimiary credits
to begin
the work.
Birminghar.
Jany
23rd. —Mr Au-ten
Ch:mbearlain.
sp2aking
on
the leisons
of
the
war, said
it wa:
not Great
Dritain’s
oolizv to borrow
va:st
sums
in
America
for :he purpcse
of
lhaning them
io other
nations
of
Europe.
He
expressed
the
beli:f
that
Great
3riain
has
reached
the
maximurn
of her
naticnal
debt
and
that
the
nation
wil
turn
the
corner
n
the
comirz
finzneial
year.
It
will
therr
be
the
‘Jovernment’s
husiness
w 0 considar
the
funding
of
the
large
exiscing
floating
d:<bt,
thus
re n»ving
frorl
ecomme:cial
and
financial
c¢:n
ros
the
cloua
of
anxiet’
now
overnanzing
thera.
The Chancellor
declared
that
no
expudients,
however
ingenious,
‘e uld
relieve
the
mnation
cf the
necessity
for
many
years,
of exercising
careful
econ-
omy
in national
anc
personal
expendi-
tures;
or
continued
offort
to
create
wea'th.
f..ndon,
Jan.
23rd.-—Sugar
in
s:-ock
on
the
10th instant
wa: 63000
tons.
Last
year 249,000 tons.
:
London, Janv.
24th--The
‘‘Daily Mail”’
anncuneces
th i
21~
Marshal
Haig will
ratir2 oo Feb.
wry
fi st,
when
the
post
of Crmmander-in
C. :iwill be abolished
hula 2 dß.amand
of the army
will
re-
vert
to the Arny
Council,
as
in
pre-war
days.
Melbourne,
Jany.
24th.—The
Comimun-
wealth
Government
has
invited
several
military leaders
to
frame
a
proposal
for
a complete military
defence
scheme.
London, Jany.
24th.—The
Russian
So-
viet Government’s
Minister of Commerce
is reported
to have arrived
at Helsingfors
for the purpose
of trying to open
negoti-
ations
with the Allies for the
resumption
of trade relations.
Regarding
the
ship-
ment of food to
Russia
by England
for
British subjets,
he says
the
Soviet
Gov-
ernment
has
all
the
necessary
rolling
stock
and sledges
on
the frontier ready
for its transportation.
.
Paris,
Jany.
24th.—The
Note
of
the
Dutch
Government,
refusing
to
give up
the Ex-Emperor,
William,
says
that
Hol-
land
was
not a party
to the Peace
Treaty
which condemned
him, and cannot
recog-
nize.
as
an international duty,
the
neces-
sity
to
associate
herself
with an
act
of
high international policy by
the Powers.
It declares,
also, that
by the
constituent
laws of
the
Kingdom
and by
tradition.
the country las always beena
ground for
refuge in international
conflicts and
that
these
facts
do
not permit
the
Govern-
ment
to defer
to
the wishes
of the
En-
tente
by withdrawing
from the
Ex-Em-
pero-,
the
benefit of
its
laws and
tradi-
tionals.
Rome,
Jan.
24th.—A reconstruction
of
the Cabinet
is forecasted
by
the
news-
paper
‘‘ldea Nazionale.”’
London,
Jan.
24th.—
The
position
of
General
Denekine
in Southern Russia
is,
to all appearances,
somewhat
better,
ac-
cording to a summary
of the situation
is-
sued
by the War
Office.
The
inevitabie
pause
which follows
an offensive
has
oc-
curred,
and the future
course
of opera-
tions will be in favour of the
side
which
is best
able
to make
the best
use
of
the
time
at its
disposal
of
re-organization.
This should
be
easier for
General
Dene-
kine, who
is
nearer
his
base
than
the
Boisheviki.
London,
Jan. 24th. —All
the
Japanese
troops
have left Irkutsk, according
to the
“Daily Mail’s’” Harbin
correspondent.
The
evacution
by the Czechs
is
proceed-
ing under
General
Semeroff,
who is
ren-
dering all facilities.
a
Washington,
Jan. 24th.— Notice was
re-
ceived
by Senator
Lodge vesterday
from
irreconciliable Republican
Senators
that
they refuse
any
compromise
agreement
which modifies
the Lodge reservations
to
the League of Nations
Convention
It is
therefore
futile
to
predict
what
action
may
be
tsken
in the next fe
/ days.,
New
York,
Jan.
Z4th.—lnfluenza
is
fast
approaching
an
epidemic stage
and
stringent
measures
a“e
being
taken
to
prevent
it spreading.
the health
com-
missioner
states
that
vaccine
does
not
prevent
the
disease
and
investigations
have proved
that serums
are
useless.
Ponce,
P.R.
Jan.26th.
-Slight prolong-
ed shock
7.10 p.
m.
Ponce,
Jan.
26th.
- sharp
prolonged
shock
earthquike
5.30 p.
m.