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MONDAY. 20
OCTOBER
1919,
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PALEGRAM
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Sst. CROIX SFALION.
Paris,
Je:.lath.-Hava’s.
'w
arfy-seven
war
-essels
were
lost by Franee
during
|
the period ¢f nostilities,
according
to
an
order
of tne
day
issued
by
M. Leygues,
|
Miaisterof
Marine,
citing
the
numnber
of war crart
dasiro;ed.
Ineludad
in the
list
are
theee
batcleships,
th>
vanton,
Cauioizaad
3uffran.
|
Copenaazon,
Jet.
15th.—Tne
position
|
of ithe Buisnavik
is
dzaelared
in
a
repoct
|
fron KRussia
to be critical, ewinzZ
(o
:en-
'
eral
Derekine’s
advance.
One
newspa-
|
per
claitas
that
‘eneral
Denczkine
will |
entar
Mosecw
within
a
monta
and
that
|
the Reds
no longer hope
for
wvictory.
If
|
Tula,
120 m les south
of ¥oscow
is
teken,
|
says
the nev'spaper,
the Bolshevik
Com-
|
missariat
irtend
to
flee inio
Uurkistan,
|
Londori,Oct.
15ih:—In accordance
with
I
the terms o' therailway s:rike settlement
I
agreement,
the
Men’s kixecutive .hus
in-
|
terviewed
the
Premier regarding
the
re-
|
sumption
oi
negotiations,
at the conciu-
’
sion
of
the
interview
Mr. Thomas,
the
|
railway men’s leader
declared
that he
was
|
pleased
of
he
spirit at the meeting and
|
ihe genuine
lesire of both
sides
to
reacn
|
a
permaunent
settlemant.
i
Londop, Ozt. 15th.
- Mrs.
Lloyd George
i
is
taking a hand
in the
prohibition
cam-
|
paign,
addressed
a
meeting
of
2,000
|
women
at
Glasgow
yesterday.
Des-
|
patches
reccived
here
quote Mrs.
Lloyd
|
(George
as saying
that
tae
sucezss
of
the
|
campaign
depends
upon
women.
‘lt is
|
the duty of women
to help the
victims of
|
alecoholism
at home,
as
it was to help the
|
victims
of
Prussianism
in
Belgium
five
|
years
ago’’.
Mrs.
Lloyd
Geopge
is
re-
|
ported
to have said,
"'Scotland
is
on the
|
eve ofa great
campaign
and next
year
l
the
eyes
of
remperance
= reformers
No. 241
w»%
throughout
the world will be
focussed
on
Scotland.
If Seo land
shoull
win,
the
victory
will be
a great
stimulus
to
the
world o d_ likewise'.
BY. THE
GOVERNOR
OF
THE
VIRGIN I3L.ANDS OF {HE
_
UNITED
STATES.
P
{
5
A
Prociamation.
WHEREAS,
Under
and
by virtue of
Qection
4 of
the
¢clonial
J.aw
(No.
124}
published
at Amalienborg,
Anril 6, 1906,
it is provided
ameng
other things
as
fol-
lows:
“In ex.raordinrary
circ.mstances
the
Governor
has
suthority
to
issue
Pro-
visional
Laws o Ordinances.”’
,
AND, II'IF#)’RE,-IS, by
Sec'ion
2 of an
Act of Congress
entitled ‘‘An Act
to
pro-
vide
a
temporary
Governmert
for
tae
West
Indian
Islands
aecquired
by
the
Uni:ed States
from Denmark’’,
ete.,
ap-
proved
by
the
President
on
the 2rd day
of March,
1917,
it is further provided
in
said Act as follows:
“That, until Cot.gress
shall
otherwise
provide,
in so far as compacibie
with
the
changed
sovgreignty
and
lot in
conflict
with the
provisions
of this
Act.
the
laws
regulating
elections
and
the
eleetoral
franclise
as
set
forth
in
the code of laws
pubhshed
at
Amalienborg
the
6th
of
April,
1906,
and
the
other
local
laws
in
force and effect in said Islauds
on the
17th day of Jitnuary,
1917
shall
re-
main
in foree and
effect
in
said
ls-
lands”’’
L.
AND,
WHEREAS,
the
raie
of
ex-
change
for
an
Ametican
dollar
into
francs
of
the
currency
of
the
said
Is-
lands
has,
on October
15,
1919,
sauden-
Iy advanced
from $1.04
to $1.27-1/2.
830
THIS
EVENING
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Eye.”
e
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not miss
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to follow the whole
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Seats
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General
Entrance
20
cents.
CHILDEEN —Reserved
Seats
20
cents,
General
Entrance
10
cents.
NOW, THEREFORE,
1, J.
W. Oman,
Governor
of
the
Virgin
Islands
of
the
United
States,
formerly
known
as
the
Danish
West
Indian
llslands,
under
and
by
virtue of thesaforesaid
|
ws,
consid-
ering
extraorvdinary
circumstances
as
novy existing,
-
in view of the
increase
in
prices
of
necessities
of
life, incidenc
to
the
aforementioned
advance
in the
rate
of
exchange,
hereby
determine
and
by
this
proclamation
to
announce
that
it
is
essential,
in order
to
provide
suflicient
means
whereby
the
employes
of
the
Government
of the
said
Virgin Islands
of the Urited
States
may obtain sufficient
necessities
of life
under
the salaries
now
paid
to
such
employes
in
the
currency
of
the
said
Islands,
and
in
order
that
the public good will be promoted
thereby,
to
add
to
the
salaries
of said employes,
do lwrebmuthm'izw
and
direct,
effective
immediately and until
otherwise
provid-
ed,
tha!
there
shall
be added
to the
sala-
ry of each
empioye
of
this
Governmengt
such further
amounts,
in
local
currency,
in addition
so such
salaries
as
will equal
the differonce
between
the
normal
rate
of exchange
($1.04)
and
the
rate
of
ex-
change
existing
when
such
salaries
are
due
and
pavable.
The
budgets
for
the
Municipality
of
St.
Thomas
gnd
Bt:
John
and
for
the
Miniei:
palicy
of
St.
Croix,,for the
fiscal
year
ending Jnne
30,
1920,
are hereby increas-
.
ed in the amounts
necessary
to
prowide
-
for the aforesaid
payments..
:
IN
WITNESS
WHEREOEF
1
‘haye:?
hereunto
set iy hand
and caused
the
sexl
of the Government
of the
Virgin Islands
of the United States
to be afbixed.
Issued
in St. Thomas,
this
17th day
of
October,
1919, *A. D.
(SEAL)
J.
W. OMAN.
By The Governor
;
.
C.
C. TIMMONS.
Governient Secretary.