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\Y@ W 1Y 22 ! . L=\ i@ o WP | / ST. GLrolx A\\m 5 AA L 8 YLB Ha TE & A~y R] l’cagh (o 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED, V. 1. U. SfA.’f TUESDAY. 16t DECEMBER 1919. reconsider the question of the sojourn at Amerongen of tl?é Former Emperor, and to seriously consjder the question of his ex radition. fsk incident constituted the first sericus-gi-Kaiser movement to occur in the Dutéh Government. wondon, Dee. | 10th.—At the Trades Union Congress t&day. Mr. Thomas, La- bour member of Rarliament for Derby, anl General Secgetary of the National Urion of Railwaymen, reporting the in- terview he had wlith Mr. Lloyd George on Monday, saidgthe premier admitted that 1t was the of the state to find work or provide subsistence for the un- employed, and lodked upon sccieiy’s fail- ing in that respect-as barbarous. L.ondon, Deec. gth.——Mr Thomas, Gen- erzl Secretary offthe National Union of Railwaymen, spegking of his recent in- terview with Mrilloyd George, at the Trades Union Co%gress, stated that the Premier intimateé to him, that the Il:on moulders strike was having a paralyzing effecet, not only #n the iron trade, but Wcooiwicenh, where repairsof various Kirds we e oreatly hampered. He thought the labour movement should find sone meth- od ot settling the disputes. Mr. Lloyd George also said the Trade Unionists, es- pecially the boiler makers, were hindering the making of loedmotives ai Woclwich. The Premier exprégssed the cpinion that cor tinuance of the unemployed dole would prejudice agscheme to be submit- ted ultimately. is has reference to the proposed natighal unempioyraent in- surance bill. Re®araing Russ.a, the Premier said the pdlicy he outlined was the govt. policy, and :hiat when the £15,000,000 last vbted, was sp-nt, no support of any Kind would be given for Russian Intervention. With respect to the demands for the abolition of con- seription, Mr. Lloy## George pointed out that peace had not’yet been ratified, and declared that it would be madness to abolish the consczp'tion act while any danger in connecl‘on with evasions by Germany existed., = 4 HOW MANY SOUNDS DO WE HEAR? According to Helfaholtz’s theory, the ear possesses 16,00¢ tiny “‘strings,’’” each ressonding to a different sound and hav- ing a central nerve Station that conveys the sense of sound groduced by the re- sonance of these stdngs to the brain. A new theory has now been brought forward by Sir Taomas . .ightson, who believes that the eabiisrc...; a delicate sprine balance which wei ns the weight THE ST. CROIX AVIS s printed and published daily (Sndays and Holidays excepted) by G. Jownsen at the Avis Office. T'ERMS---50 cents monthly in advance, 2 cents per single copy. : Entered as second-class matte- JMay 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- stod. St. Crow, V. L. oftheUl.'S. 4., un- der the Act of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will te glad- ly received when the same deals wi v mat- ters of genecral interest, and is ac:ompa- nied with the author’s name, as ¢ Guar- antee of good faith. The editor ca vnot be responsible for the views of his cor:espon- dentsnor does he necessarily endors:them, TELEGRAMS. | ST. CROIX STA LION. Dublin Dee. 11th.—Thomas Kelly, Sinn Fein member of the Hcuse of Com- mons. was arrested in the course of& num- ber of raids by the police and nilitary this morning, when the houses of sever- al prominent Sinn Fein leaders were searched. 'The residences searched by the authorities in this process included the home of Count Plunkett whc was ab- sent at the time of the official vis- its. Several other arrests were made besides that of Kelly. Tne prisoners were taken to Kinustown in military lov- ries. They were then placed in row boats and taken out to a warship which sailed for an English port. The approaches to the harbour were guarded by the mili- tary with armoured cars and tanks. It is rumoured that tue destination of t.e ~risoners is Wormwood Scrubbs Jail, in London. Keily was served on Tuesday ev~- ning with a policc magistrate’s orler to close the Sinn Fe'n headguarters, which,de spite several raids and its suppression by proclamation, has continued in operation. The order,was not obeyed, thelhead juart- ers still heing oven when the raid took place. The Hague, Dec. 10th. "‘lf previous- ly, we have not regarded him as a dan- ger to our country, he is now proving to be a danger’’, said Deputy Sannes, in the Chamber of Deputies today referring to Ex-Emperor William of Germany. The Deputy was dealing® with a book written by Karl Kautsky, a German So- cialist, which Sannes declares, showed that the iformer Emperor was the cause of the world-war. The dat2 of Kaut- sky’s Book was said to have been cbtain- ed from the official archives in Berlin. Deputy Sannes asked the Goverument te No. QW of the sound waves, and communicates - these weights as sound to the brain. This would mean only one piece of mechanism in the esr, against 16,000 sup- posed by Helmholtz, and it is quite con- cievable, because all the strings and wind instruments in a chord played by an orchestia are produced in the gramo- phonelgy“one depression in the record. There is really no such thing as sound!. If* 256 air waves follow weach othér ina second, we hear the note C: if twice that numberdollow in a second, we have the Can octave higher. Thetquality of the sound-—a human voice or the tinkle of a bell—depends on the shape of the fronts of the waves. : These disturbances of the air make the eardrum vlbra_te, and the ear mechanism converts the vibrations into what we call sonnd. It is the brain which makes the music or noise for us out of what is mere- ly mechanical motion, just as it makes light out of what are merely waves pass- ing through ether.—Everyday Life. The S. S. “M - AP b, A alnoca formerly the S. S. ‘‘Shoshone’’ sailed from New York midnight the tenth De- cember with a full cargo of forty thou- sand barrels capacity, and sixty-two cabin and ninety-six sfeerage passen- gers, ROB’T. L. MERWIN & CO. Frederiksted, St. Croix, 15th December 1919, + MAILS CLOSE for New York, N . bers & Korona at 4 p. m. Wednesday, 17th. instant. e e e NORTHERN Assurance Company v o Limited OF LONDON A T B GEO. L MARKOE Agent for Frederiksted’s Distric |:‘ f; ‘: [ " (\F!"'! x 2T\ ¥ q VI, K. ARMSTRONG, Agent for Christiansted’s District Policeis are noi subject to avernac,