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X g'\ blo @ s übfication. lT 1s hereby brought to public no- lice that the Government has, g : Sk 1 ANTLQ this date, authorized Rev. JAMES N ATEYY TOY Rt YT g AUGUSTUS AGAARD to perform civil-religious functions in the Mu- nicipality of St. Croix. Government of the Virgin Islands of the/Umted States, St. Croix, 27 August 1920. C. C. TIMMONS, (rovernment Secretary. Ch s » . 4 3 3 k % B hé’ No Show To-night. o O?ly i gur Days. DR J. R. MAYHEW, Eyesight Speciai- ist, will be at Christiansted from Monday 30th to Thursday 2nd Septr. and can be consulted either of these days from 10 a. m. Letter mail by the Virginia was re ceived here yesterday forenoon and par- cel post and papers arrived in the evening, The s. s. Guiana after loading some Bethlehem sugar at Frederiksted sailed for New York via St. Thomas early this morning. The Creole sails for St. Thomas today with mails and passengers. Owing to insufficient light in the band. stand the Navy Band was unable to give its concert last night. It is hoped that should conditions prove faverable this programme will be rendered toright or some other evening before the regular mid-weekly concert. Frederiksted is to nave a town-clock. Civilization continues, as of yore, to tra- vel from east to west, and ila this case probavly tne material as well, it being spoken tnat West Knd may get the old works of our former clock. As a matter of fact, if this be true, it would be getting -a supevior clock to the one we now have; and it ils said to be easy to. put it in prope:r repair. Y o R § TEi rF Tas A N N B, e e The Excelsior Grizket Club won the matc!’: ;)j;dh\?_-):? an rr 5’101?163‘ Danske Ground vesterday. Detter. luck next Hr Ul AN IS time, tHorse Whip Boys. The mateh was - yours but on account of bad feeding you i have lost it, but lam guite sure they ' are coming again, because the Honor- able Captain, Reuben J. Brun, told me . yesterday after the match was over it is ! hard for him to take it so. The score i being 86 to 64.~ The Exceisior Boys . played wetl” but next time it will be a | nut to crack. ‘, A REPORTER. 1. 5. N. PRESS NEWS ? LONDON: BSoviet Government agrees . to withdraw its conditions that Poles | provide for a Workmens' Militia of two | hundred thousand men in Poland. This ! concession meets with the wishes of the ' British and [talian Governments. PARIS: The Poles have taken eighty thousand prisoners and captured great quantities of guns and materials from . the Bolsheviki army which swept down - upon Warsaw, ‘ WASHINGTON: “ordon Woodbury, former member of the New Hampshire ' iegislature, has bpeen appointed Assisi- ant Secretary of the Navy to succeed Frankiin D. Roosevelt. He attended weekly session of Seeretary’s Council to- day.WASHINGTON: Secretary Daniels yesterday issued 202 commissions to offi- ~ cers. Neariy ali had won promotion from - ranks during the war and held tempora- ry commissicns in regular Navy. One hundred and ninery-four former enlistéd ' ~ men promoted to lieutenants aad lieu- tenants junior grade and one¢ to ensign. ' WASHINGTON: Ratification of the - nineteenth amendment to the Constitu- tion f the United §States granting suf- frage to women was proclaimed officially . today by S-ecretary Colby of State De- { partment. Fifty years struggie ended { in vietory for women. . WASHINGTON: Major General Lej- . uene presented IKrench decoration of Hourragere to thirty officers and enlisted men of Marine Corps and one Naval offi- cer of Medleai Corps today. Secretary . Daniels congratulaied them in a short address ¢ : TLEGRAMS. | ST. CROLX SPATION. | Antwerp, Aug. 23rd.—The s2venth | Olympic closed late this afterncon so far ' as track and field competitions are c¢on- ' cerned. The United Strates contestaats i rolled up a total of 212 points, twice as . great as that of the nearest rival nation, Finland with 105. They piled up ap- . proximately one-third of a possible ag- ! gregate of 638, They scored in all but : four events and were ticd with Finland i for first piace championship honoars, | ¢ach nation having won nine firsts. Os | four world’s records established the Uni- ' ted Siates athletes made chree, the fourth e oihg to iiniand. The only Diympic record established which is not also a world record was by a member of the United States team. Suva, Fiji, Aug. 24th.—H. M. S. Re nown sailed from here yesterday morn- ing for Honolulu with H. R. H. the Prind: of Wales on board. The battle- er'’ 2r arrived on Sunday. The Prince was given a very heariy reception and ecjoyed a brief visit ashore. London, Aug, 25th.—The Duke of York stakes run at Kemption Park re- sulted as follows: Ist, Harrier. 2nd, Pomme-Terre. 3rd, Lord Thanet.* Warsaw, Aug. 25th.—The reports from the various fronts, particularly the Northern sector of the line, indicate that the Bolsheviki are dem ralized and ficeing everywhere in great disorder. General Solnokowski, Minister of War, has issued a statement in the Polish newspapers declaring that the Soviet armies have been decisively beaten eyery- where, adding that of 700,000 ;Bolsheviki troops 140,000 have been accounted for, and that nearly all other detachments have been shot to pieces. He estimates the number of prisoners a 50,000 and the number of other Bolshevik casualties -at 40,000, e¢l'wo Cossack regiments have crossed into Kast Prussia north of Mlawa to escape capture, according to an an- nouncement by the military authorities and therearc indications that the Sovict infantry units, numbering many thou- sands, have aiso taken flight across the {rontier at various points. Warsaw, Aug. 25th.--Kolno, an iln- wortant town near tne East Prussian frontier north »f Lomza, has been taken by Polish forees which have been sweep- ing rapidly northward in pursuit of the raiding Bolisheviki. More than 10,000 prisorers who were cut off from the main body of the Soviet army have been captured in this regiou. Warsaw, Aug. 25th.—Military obsery- ers fassert that the Polish victory and success in the campaign now being car- ried out form one of the most interesting military strategical problems of recent years. 'The remnantof the fourth Boi- shevik army is surrounded near Mlawa and whilz disorganized, is endeavouring 0 nght its way ecastward. It attacked a Polish brigade near Chorzellen, about 20 miles north of Przasnysz, but was re- puised ioslng many prisoners. Paris, Aug. 25th.-—The Foreign Office announced today that the French Govt. was in entire accord with the United States Govt. that the Polish armies should vemain within Poland’s ethno- graphical f{rontiers, adding that the definite ethnographical frrontiers were not yet determined. It was pointed out by the Foreign.Office that the Polish boundary laid down will be replaced iater by the Polish Russian agreement and that therefore the minimam Polish line has a certaip flexibility. London, Aug. 25th.—There were dis- orderly scenes last gight near the Brix-