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51 L R Yo . © 7w 4 CHRISTIANSTED THEATREL 815 THIS EVENING 8.15. THE LAST INSTALMENT OF: “THE PRISONER OF [ENDA” 5 REELS Show concluding with “Faity Arbuckle” in “Faity ai Coney Isiand” 2 REELS. BEGINNING MONDAY BESFINNING M(ND 1Y sEddie Polo” in the new serial “The Secret Four”, THIS SERIAL WILL BE EXHIBITED IN ? PERFORMANCES . A DRISSION Reserved Seats. ... .....20¢, General Entran®e ......... 156 e ... e g ... 108 the Pole Association {from the Hurlington Club of England. The challenge stipu- lates that the matehes should be played on the fi-ld of the Meadowbrook Club at Westbury in September 1923. Catania. June 18th —Mount Etna is active today. Several eruptions of the valeano during the night were heralded pv loud explosions, followed by -¢treams of lava that overrun a number of culti- vated fields and woods. The station at Castiglione has been destroyea and. the railway near the mountain obsuu <y, while a lava stream 300 metres wide threatens the distriet ebeut Linguag- lossa. Besides the eruption from the main crater numerous small craters have opened on the side of the mountain. The eruptive activity of the voleano is accom- panied by violent explosions and tremen- dous discharges of ashes and cinders, with lava constantly flowing down the sides of the mauntain. S'ight ~arth- shocks are adding terror to the situation. London, June 10th.—Captain Swan, Paymaster of the British gendarmes in Da'estine, was murdered last Friday while travelling between Ramleh and Jaffa, snys a Jerusalem despateh to the Daily DMail. His assailiants escapel, Several other acts of brigandage have oceurred in the distriet in the last few duys. Jerasalem, June 18th. —The Govelfi- ment officially announces that ali but one of the 20 bandits, participating in the re- cent a'tack on the company of gen- darmes, escorting the High Commis- sioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, which re- sulted in the death of five of the British, bave been captured. Limerick, June 18th. —Addressing a lagge gathering here yesterday, Presi- dent Cosgrave said that Ireland had tak- en the first of its forward steps in its new sphere in the nationhood of the wceld, While the Government vras will- ing to forget the trouble of t. 2 last twelve months, it would take no risks regavrding the establish»d sovercignty, of the people. It tkereis a threat of wa. we shall meet it, he declared. We re gret the action of the Northern Govern- ma2nt in remaining outside the Free State we want a united Irelanl and brother- hood eooperation from ull. New York, June IBth. rhe early raw sugar market was unsettled today. Buy- ers opening 34 points lower, to ter points net bigher, a steadi>r feeling prevailed and at midday prices were unchanged, to 16 points net higher. The weakness was confined to the near positions and was due to renewed liquidation and sell- ing for Japanese account. After the early selling had subsided, prices ral” on heavy covering and trada buying. There was no change in refined sugar, with fine granulated listed at 9 25. Oualy a moderate business was reported. Christiania, June 18th.—-Captain Amund- sen has abandored his North [oie flicht, it was annourced today by the Minister of Defence. Essen, June 18th.—The French have seized 170 locomotives and 2,000 goods truck oo branch lines between Dortmund and Essen, thus virtually completing French control of the Ruhr transporia- tion lines. Quebee, June 18th.—Th2 forest fire situation has greatly improved within the last 24 hours, according to reports received from all over the provinces. Ottawa, June 18th.—Clause five of the Bank Act, which provid:s for extending the charters of Canadian banks for a period of ten years, was sent to the com- mittee of the House of Commons shortly before 2 o’clock this morning. The clause was adopted, following the defeat of the Progressive amendment to limit the extentiors to cne year, by a vote of 65 to 67. The progressives present voted solidly in favour of the amendment. New Yok, June 18th.—Pancho Villa, of the Philippires, knocked out Jimmie Wilde of Erngiand, the world’s flyweight champion, in the seventh round of a fifteen round mateh tonight with a right to the jaw, Washkington. June 18th.-—The Govern- ment has accomrplished ‘he tack of living within its ircome in tle past tweive moenths and has accumulaied a saiples of two hundred nillion doellars in addi- tion, the President szid today in a speech at a meeting of department heads ard bureau and divicsion chiefs constituting the Covernment’s business organization. Further reductions, hLe said, would Le made in expendituresiin the cominy year. The reccrd, the President said, is mo e important since the fiscal year was in- augurated: Jast Juiy Ist, with a deficit confronting the Treasmy of $823,000.00. To this, ''signal achievementi'’, Mr. Harding declared, should be added to the fact, that, in add:tion to wiping cut the deficit and accumulating a surplus, the campaign for efficicney and economy nud resuiied in actual expenditures of tie Goverun ect beingeeut 256,060,000 in the last 12 months below the orcdinary expen- ditures {or the year ending last June 301 h. London, Jure 18th.—English pacifists and a sectien of the labour party are pro- testing against the launching of the XI, the new mystery submarine, ®hich cost four million pounds, without her arma- ment. The vessel is reported 10 have a cruising radius ol 8,000 miles. She was laid down prior to the Washington Dis- armament Conf:rence and is therefore ex~apt from the restrictions imposed " ¢ne pact. Mr. Ramsay hch Donald sposed the launching of the ®essel in a speech at Hampton on Sunday, saying, *‘lt seems that the world is rattling back to barbarism’’. Withington, Lancs, June 18th.- Eduar- do FKFlagor and Count Degomar, repre- senting Spain, today won the mateh in the doublesin the D.vis Cup from the . itish pair, Randolph Lycett, and L. A. Godtree. ‘loday’s play sent the Span- iards into the lead in ihe conpetition, two muatches to one, Degomar having won in the singles over W. Hendy last Saturiday. Spain’s loss in the cotnpeti- tion thus far was woen flagor lost to Ly- cett in the singles on Saturday. Toduy the court was shippery . hich workeid (o the advantage ot the Spaniards. They cleverly diew up the Briush players to the net and then lobbed the bail over their heads. After two sets the English- men adopted a baseline game with ad- vantage. ‘The perfect combination of the Spaniards, however, enabled them o outplay :their oppounents. Lycett was steady, but Godlree f[requently sent the ball into the net, or lobbed inaccurately. The score was 78, 6-3, 64, 6 3.