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(Y, v; P e = W / \/ | J 7 { ’ ‘6’ s =y 4 ‘l/A \4 ‘ ‘ l <§&/ /'/ \N ; ‘ \!—]i' & 7 / @ / Q\ ‘o 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED. V.l U. 8. A., TUESDAY. 2np MARCH 1920, that th® developmen: of tOurist traffic | throughout the West [ndian Colonies | and Britich Guiana should be fostered | and promoted in every way possible, and Mr. Keefer, Parliamentary Under-See- retary of State for external affairs, Can- . «da, spoke enthusiastically of the island | and of Demerara, which cnly required ro be known in Canada and other north- ern countries to make them great cen- tres of attraction for tourists. , Aitention was given lo the emigration of the West Indian Labourers to foreign lands and the negessity of offering all | nossible inducemenis to labourers to re- main in the land. Rarbados. 27th.--It is announced that His Excellency the Governor is authoriz- | ed to announce thet His Koyal Highness | the :Prince of Walds will leave England | on the 9th March, by H. M. S. Reaown | and is timed to arrive in Rarbados on the 19th, leaving on the 20¢h March. It must | ' be understood, hoyever, that the date of | ~arrival is only approximate and the exact | | date and hour will be commqnicated en .| | roure. ) ® g London, Feb. 23rd. -The Peace Confer- | ence will re-assemble today with the ad- |. dition of Premier Miller and two oth- | er French Ministers, the Italian Foreign | Minister, Signor Scialoia, with severalad- | visers, and the Roumaniav Premier. The | appea—ance of representatives of Italy, | France and Roumaria indicate that be- . sides the leading questions of Russia and ‘ . Turkey, there will be important discus | ' sions of an economig nature and it is ex- | pected a decision will be reached on Mr. | " Lloyd George’s proposal to trade with the Russian cooperafive unions. London, Feb. 23rd. -Great Britainis | fundamentally sounrd. botL financially | ana commercially, says tha American | . Chamber of Commerce in London in a | statement referring to the differences in | ' the financial positioa of Great Britain " and the continental European countiries. | " The Chamber, conmenting on the recent | . unprecedented drop in sterling exchange | " in the United States, says it'is particularly . desirgble that the bes* upinion on each side . of the Atlantic concerning this question ' should be understood on the other side. After a thorough discussion with the lead- . ers of British finance, illuminated large- ! " ly by addresses of the chairman ofthe ~ leading British baaks to their stockhold- . ers in annual meetins, the Chamberof ' Commerce prepaved a message to the five | American business public, which reads . as follows: ‘‘The coilapszof the pound { - sterling in New Yock is no index to THE ST. CROIX AVIS is printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johamsen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly wn advance, 2 cents per single copy. kntered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Ofice at Christian- sted, St. Croix, V. L of the U. S. A., un- der the Act or March 3. 1879 Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a Guai- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dentsnor does he necessarily endorsethem. TELEGRAMS ST. CROIX STA tION. London, Feb. 23rd—Sir Hamar Green- wnod, r~plying to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Govt. was aware that invitations were being issued through the American press in- viting subscriptions for bond certificates of the republic of Ireland, but that Great Rritain had made no representations to the President of the United States on the matter. Barbados, ['e>. 27th -The Associated West Indian Chambers of Commerce resumed their deliberations this moining by the consideration of existing telegraph- iec communication and decided having regard to the loss, mutilation and delay’ of messages, and of the vital necessity of maintaining efficient communication with the United Kingdom and Canada, and with eazh other, without passing over foreign territory, to urge the Secre- tary of state for the Colonies immcdiately to appoint a representative Committee to decige what steps can be taken to provida the efficient, reliable and all British system required. It was further recommended that if possible the services of the .ireless ex- pert now in the West Indies should be obtained in order to report on the possi- bilities of improving and establishing wireless communication within ' these colonies. Attention was drawn by the Hon. El- liott Sprott, delegate from St. Vincent, to the freight rates charged in that col- ony as compared with the other islands and it was diraeted “hat the matter oe referred to the West Ind'a Committee with a view to their bringing it before the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The Association recorded its belief No. 49 Great Britain’s financial strength or weakness. London today, as before the war, is the monetary centre of Eurcpe. Great Britain was foreed to supply the credit needs of the Countinent as well as those of her own traders lhe do'lar ex- change is really New York, European, not New York London Exchange. Bri- tain is neither bankrupt nor anywhere near it. Althougn her external debt is larger than ever before in history. This debt hes been incurred mainly to supply the needs of her confinental Allies and she is owed approximately twice as much ~s she owes America, and while the Uni- ted States may fairly expeect to collect all its British debt, Britain is preparing to write off fifty per cent of her contin- ental debt. In spite of these facts, Bri tish finance is in a fundamen‘ally sound condition. Businessmen and workers are recovering from the demoralizing effeots of the war, their customary energy is reviving and British actories are in- creasing their output. According to es- timates made publie by the Bank Chair- man the present years’ exports will produce a profit of from one billion _pounds to one a:d a half b llion pounds. jeare rounding the corner’, is now "heard on all sides and neither British ‘bankers nor ithe British Government ex- peet or ask further government or long ~ term loans from the United States. " Berlin, Feb. 13rd—Herr -Noske, the Minister of Defence, addressing the _employer= Council and the Socialist dele- gates at Hamburg, reiterated his pre- vious statement that he would put down all attempts on the part of the miners to introduce a six hour day at this time, or auv attempt to paralyze the railways. When thousands of railwavmen declare that they hold stations that they can close if they will, then I, as Minister of Defence have no hesitation whatever in crushing them; he declared, adding that he had instructed the directors of the wharves to discharge immediately men who didnot want to work eight hours per day. Copenhagen, Foby. 23rd. —Maxie Lit- v,m,gf 188 N Soviet Represenrtative here, has received confirmation of the capture ofMurmansk bty the Bolsheviki. Themessage to M. Litvinoff, telling of the capture, states that the whole of North Russia is now in the hands of the Soviet Government. M. Litvinoff, in an interview, emphasized the facc that the Soviet Government had now secured an _ice free port for trade with western ~ Europe. ‘f _ )