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e €Liilx A Y1 B “THE TRAIL OF THE OCTAPUS.” EDITORIAL. On request we reprint elsewhere in this number an editorial extract from the Agntigud, B. W. 1. ''Sun’”’ on the gubject of blocking the public roads and obstructinz traffle by so doing. Tt may be found interestin> to some of our readers showing as it does that other places as well as St. Croix have this question to contend with. LOCAL. The Tadousac arrived here at about Ip. m. vesterday. Among the passen- gers were Dr. van Gaafbeak, wife and ehild. Tomorrow beinga holiday (Armistice Day), there will be no issue of this paper. The schooner Creole with only St. Thomas mail arrived here shortly after 2 p. m. yesterday. No Purto Rico mail was carried on this trip because the Mystery which sailed from Frederiksted Sunday was docked on touching at St. Thomas and sailed fcr San Juan only Tuesday evening, It is advised for public in- formation that the mail for the United States closed here on Saturday last was forwarded via the S. S. Parima the fol- lowing morning. - PATRIOTIC CONCERT We have been asked to mention that the Native Brass Band will give a Patrio- tic Concert on the Whart tomorrow evening November 11. Among the num- bers on the program are National Airs of the Allies. OFFICIAL NEWS>. 9 November, 1921. The Navy Department has issued in- structions to the effect that all vessels and stations throughout the United States will toll bells for fifteen minutes on Armistice Day, eleventh November 1921, from eleven forty-five to twelve noon, and that the two minutes of silent prayer will be observed tnereafter. The co-operation of all the churches in St. @roix in tolling their chimes at the ap- pointed time, would be appreciated by the Governor. sFootball. Another grand football match will be played tomorrow at the same place as | the last time, where the Dreadnought No. 1 Football Zlub will again meet . against the hristiansted Athletic Asso- ! ciation, both of this town, appearing ; once more in full uniform. | Persons interested in the game are . welcome to the Ground, and are quite f sure that they will be more than amused | in seeing your Boys playing against each | other. | The Boys and spectators are sure to | have a good time if the day holds fair. ' Game commences at 4.15 p. m. sharp. L- U ‘ ! St. Thoms News | T ' Mr. Doby arrived this morning from the States on the Gulfpoirt. We wish ~ Mr Doby, who is our new Chief of Po- | lice, an appreciative 'stay among us.— ‘ St. Thomas Mail Notes Nov. 5. | e e i Lieutenant G. B. McTigue, arrived by the Gulfport this morning as the succes- sor of Lieutenant Pettigrew, who ileaves shortly for the States. We hope that the new incumbent of the Public Works Department will have as pleasant a sojourn as the departing chief who from his quiet and unassum- ing manners has won the respect of those with whom he has come in contact. Among the other arrivals on the trans- port Gulfport this morning was Dr. van Gaafbeak, M. C., who goes over so St. Croix, and Lieutenant Bennington, M. - C.— Ind. - o Mr. Owen Protheroe, of Winslow, Maine, airived here recently with a view of inséalling private connections with the sewerage system. We understand several individuals have already made arrangements with him.—St. Thomas Mail Notes, Nov. 7th. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, Nov. 4th.—Steps towards reaching an adjustment of war debts be- tween the Allied nations are urged in resolutions, sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the National Committes of the International Chamber of Com- | merce. The resolutions which were | adepted unanimously by the U mmittee ] Advocate the ‘‘desirability of negotia tions in order to obtain the benefit which, ! in the committee’s opinion, would occur { if the war debts of the allies to Great ! Britain were reduced or cancelled on terns to be agreed upon’’. The commit- | tee comprises lezding representatives of ! financial, commercial and industrial in- " terests. Although the resolutions do not ‘ refer to the German reparations, it is I understood by the Daily Mail, the com- | mitteeis convinced that modification of the reparations agreement is necessary ‘ in the interests of Allied trade Washington, Nov. sth.—A complete inquiry is being conducted, at the in- stance of the State Department, into al- leged hardships suffered by British sub- jects at Ellis Island. the immigration | station at the port of New Yorktothe l end that difficulties encountered through the administration of the immigration laws may be reduce to aminimum. This ~ was learned today in conrection with ~ statements made yesterday ir the House ~ of Commons by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, ~ under Secretary for foreign affairs. Berlin, Nov. 4th.—Herr Hermes the minister of finance, explaining the new taxation bill in the Reichstag today, ad- mitted that the new proposals constitu- ted the greatest burdens that any people ever had been called upon to bear. He expressed confidence, however, that they could be borne provided that all the forces in the Nation were united and exerted to the utmost. ‘‘lt is estimated that we can reckon on an increased yield of from forty to forty-two billions marks from the proposed taxation. I must however declare that our obligations under the Allied ultimatum cannot be met by this great burdening of the taxpayer’’. The ordinary budget ex- penditure of 1920 amounts in round fi- gures to 114,250,000,900 marks. “‘So far as can be judged, now’’, he added, '‘we expect receipts of 61,200,000,000 marks so the ordinary budget look as though it will show a deficit of approximately 53,000,000,000 marks. The uncovered amount of the extraordinary budget of 1021 will show an increase up to 57,U.. 000,000 marks as compared with 49,200, 000,000 up to the present. Thus the amount which will have to be covered by loans in the 1922 financial year will total the tremendous snm of 110,000,000,000 000 marks”’. Tokio, Nov. 4th—Cablegrams express- ing horror over the assassination yester- day of Premier Hara poured into Tokio today from virtually all national capitals. Here is no definite knowledge that the demenled : ssassin was actuated by poli- cal rancour against the Premier and his Govt. Viscount Uehida, former Japan- ese Minister to the United States, has assumed the post of acting Premier. London, Nov. sth—Public interest in the assassination of Premier Hara was intensified in London by a consideration of the influence his removal might have upon Japans attitude towards the Wash- ington conference. Newspapers here to- day displayed Tokio despatches regard- ing the tragedy with great minence,