: 4 | & 7~ : i (B i—' |(l l e %/jN QT ’\\N/ r { ‘%?7 ; . LR s \ NG ).) i : Q- !/}4 I l P /\\ \ ',’-H—\\ | & N ATTR @’\/% \\}:Tff’” ’2B !’% ’(Q‘ %? ' /@*\/~ ’/‘”\‘?'4 76TH YEAR. THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and pu*lished daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly in advance, 2 cents per single copy. Eintered as second-cla - matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian giect. St Crogr, V. L orthe 11. S. A un der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- lg recerved when the same deals win mat- ters of general interest, and 1s acrompa nied with the author’s name, as a quar antee of good faith I'needitor caunot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorsethem. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, Jany. 12t~.—The King has goranted a general amnesty ‘‘in respect to political offences commit.ed in Ireland prior to the operation of the truce last , July”’, it was officially arnounced today. The release of prisoners will begin at once. The text of the proclamation which was issued by Mr. Winston Churebill, reads: ‘‘The King has beea pleased, at the mom=nt when the provisional Irish Govt. is due to take office, to grant a general amnesty with respect to all offences committed in Ireland from poli- tical motives prior to the operations of the truce of July 11th. The release of prisoners, to which the amnesty applies, will begin forthwith. It is the King’s confident hope that this action of obli- vion will aid in powerfully establishing relations of friendship and good will between the people of Great Brit- ain and Ireland’’. Figures given out in Dublin on Wednesday night showed that 1010 perscns who probably would come under the classification of po- litical prisoners were still in con- finement, this number inciuded twenty charged with murder, 121 attempted murder, 478 possessing arms and 226 with climes of violence, the others being held on minor charges. A few Sinn Fz2in prisoners are under sentence of death, according to recert Belfast ad- vices, including the sixteen men in jail there whose execution had been set for the latter part of January. The men under confinement in the Irish internment camp were released in December. Washington, Jan. 12th.—Mr. Arthur CHRISIIANSTED. V.I. U.S. A. WEDNESDAY 18tH JANUARY 1922 Balfour, head of the British delegation of the arms conference, reiterated hLis supvort of Zionist aspiraticr in an ad- dress last nizht at & reception in the British &nbassy to the Zionist organiza- tion of America. Referring to his decla- ration in November 1917 as Secretacy for Foreian Affairs, the support of the British Govt. to the establishment of a Jewish national hemeland in Pales tine, Mr. Balfour sdid’’ I stand now whore Istood then. You must do your wori here.”” He declared ‘‘rhe ixitish Govt. is doing its work in Palestine The two must cooperate, they must snow diplb>macy. They must show no undae haste and there must be no mo- ineats of