EDITORIAL.
The Lowande
and Gardner
circus
con-
pany
gave
their
first
exhibition
<t
a
crowded
house
here
last night, and
satis-
fied
the
public
that
chey represent
irst
class performers.
The
programine
wasof
adequate
variety
and
comprised
excei-
lent tight-rope
dancing,
acropatie
feats,
horse-liding,
trapeze
stunts,
and
of
course
there
was
a
clowa,
a
littie
bit
of
a
dwarf,
who
made
every-
Ddy
laugh.
[lt.
is
difficult
to
say
just which of the numerous performances
should
be recommended
most but
we hear
general
comment
on
the
rops
dancing
which to
our
judgment
surpassed
any-
thing in that line seen
here
before.
As
a whole the circus
may
be highly
recom-
mended,
and all who did not
attend
iast
night
should
not
fail to
do
so.
There
will be
a special
matinee
this
afternoon
at a low rate of admission
for
children.
LOCAL.
The
s.
s.
‘‘Korona’’ is
expected
to
sail
from
New
York
on
Saturday,
the
28th
inst.,
calling
at
all ports
except
Demerara.
The navy tug
Tadoussac
arrived
here
yesterday
afternoon,
with
Government
Secretary
Timmons.
The
postmaster
informs
us
that
the
usual
cable advice
concerning
the
mail
by
Mystery had not
reachel
him
up
to
7.30 this a.
m. whieh
would indicate
that
the boat had not sailed from St.
Thomas
up
to that
time.
It
is requested
men-
tioned
that the
outgoing
mail closes
as
customary
at
2.30 p.
m. today
for regis-
tered matter,
and 3.00 p.
m. for ordinary
mail.
It will be
noticed
that
an
advertise-
ment
of the
Christiansted
Theatre
ap-
“pears
as usual
for
Monday
night
show
but it is
desired stated
that this is condi-
tional upon
whether
the
circus
gives
a
show,
in
which
case
the cine
show
will
be postponed
for Tuesday
night.
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ST. CROIX STATION.
New
York,
May
12th.—Sugar
wiil
sell here at pre-war prices
in the Autumn
is
the
opinion
of
Mr.
Wooster
of
the
Federal
Sugar
Refining
Co.,
who
re-
turned
yesterday
on
the
White
Star
Liner ""Olympie’’ from
a six months
sur-
vey
of
the
sugar
situation.
He
pre-
dicted
an
increased
beet
sugar
rod_e-
tion
in Europe
of about
half
a millinn
tons
by
October
15th
‘‘After
Oecto-
ber
there
will
be
no
more
exportation
from
this
country
or
from
Cuba of re-
fined
sugar
to
Europe
he
said,
‘‘there-
fore
the
tendency
in
prices
should
be
downward
and
[
believe
that
sugar
will
be selling at
pre-war
prices.
Mr. Woo
ster
.who
is
a
brother-in-law
of
Mr.
Spreckles,
head
of
the
Federal
Coy.
said
he
had
visited
France,
Germany,
England and italy.
Dublin, May
16th.—Mr. Llovd George
says
the
'‘Freeman’s
Journal”
today
offered
to mect
Mr.
De
Valera,
or other
Irish
Leaders
without
conditions.
De
Valera adds
the
newspaper
replied
that
if the
Premier
made
such
a
statement
public he (De Valera) would give a publie
reply.
Berlin,
May
16ith.—German
news
papers
express
pleasure
over
declara-
tions
made
on
Friday
by
Mr.
Lloyd
George
relative
to the
Silesian
situa-
tion, but gave
warning against
a German
march
into
Silesia,
unless such
amove-
ment
should
be requesied
by the enterte
powers.
They declare
such
an advance
would result
in
war
with
both
France
and
Poland.
This
view
is voiced
by
a
number of
journals.
*‘lf Adalbert Kor-
fanty should
presume
to take
possession
of any
disputed
territory
wiihout
per-
mission
from
the
Entente,””
said
the
‘‘Lokal Anzeiger’’,
we
shall
be
ex-
empt
from
all
our
obligations
and
du-
ties.””
‘'‘Pending
& decision in
the
mat-
ter,
declares
the
'‘Fremheit’’,
neither
German
imperial
troops
nor disguised
military organizations
have any
business
in
Upper
Silesia.
Germany
does
not
want
a
new
war
and
mobilization
of
(Govt troops would
be
playing the
game
of French
Nationalists’’.
London,
May
16th.—Th.re
may
be
a
ful meeting
of the Supreme
Allied Coun-
cil
for
the
purpose
of
discussing
the
situation
which
has
ariser
in
Silesia
as
a result
of
the
Polish
revolt
there.
A
decision of this
point
has
not yet
been
reached
and in
some
quarters
it is
said
that
a
meeting
of
Mr
Lloyd
Georges
and
M.
Briand
is
favoured
at the
pre-
sent
time rather
than
a
meeting
of
the
council.,
Despatches
from
Paris
indi-
cates
that
M.
Briand
intends
to
lay the
situation
before
the
French
Chamber
of
Deputies
when
it
meets
on
Thursday
following
a
recess
of a fortmight.
There
nas
‘een
an exchange
of views
between
the Britisk
and
French
Governments
but suggestions
that
a meeting
be
held
nave been
met
with assertions
in
Paris
that
it
would
be
impossible
for
the
French
premier
to
discuss
personally
ihe
Silesian
affairs
with
Mr.
Lloyd
George
until afier Thursday.
\
London,
May
16th,--
The
interven
tion of
the
Whitsun
hoiiday
brought
=
sligh:
easing
of
the
tension
in
the
Si-
esian
erisis.
No
new
d:velopment
{wzas
reported
today
and
apparently
nothing
further
has
been
decided
upon
with
re-
ference
o the
meeting
of
the Supreme
Counell
which
probably will not
be
held
before
next week
ss,
the
debaie
in
the
French
Chamber
is
expected
to
occupy
several
days.
The
view held
in London
is
that
the
delay
wiil
serve
a useful
purpose
in
allaying
passion
or
both
sides
and
providing
mor=
favourable
atmosphere
for
calm
discussions
when
the
council
meets.
The
‘‘Times
in an
editorial
says
the
marked
subsidence
of
the
excitement
of
the French
press
will be noted
here
with
relief and grati
fication.
It seems
to
have
attributable
partly to defective
reports
of Mr Lloyd
George’s
speech
hastily
circulated
in
London
and telegraphed
abroad.
Washington,
May
16th.—A
United
States
army
of 175,000
men
was decided
on today by the
Senate
Military Affairs
Sub-Committee
considering
the
army
appropriation
Bill
The
mesasure
pre-
sented
by
the
House
provided for
an
army o* 15¢,000
mren.
\
Belfast,
May 16th.—Lord
Hugh
Cecil,
member
of the Privy Council,
who is the
Guest of Lord
Londonderry’s
family
o
Mount Stewart,
County Down,
has
sug-
gested
a scheme
by which Ireland would
be
made
an
independent
kingdom,
its
king
to be
a member
of the Windsor
{a-
mily, the Prince
of
Wales,
to be appoint-
ed
by
the King. Under
the
scheme
there
would
he
two small Parliaments,
one
located
in
Belfast
and the other in
Dublin, and
in
additicn
a “‘House of Es-
tates’”
of
100
members,
complete fiscal
autonomy would be given
to ?'eland,
but
there would be a levy imposed for imperial
defence
in
proportion
to the
sum contri-
buted
by Great Britain
for that purpose.
Ireland under
the plan would be allowed
to
have
an
army,
but
no navy, and
in
the event of war
the King of Great Brit-