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proceed to a limitation of the coal over profits, this mmwation to be retroactive, | and ‘o thke steps to reduce the price of | ford and ¢iothing to a reasonable basis. The alternative is a threat to demand an | immediate all-round increase ol wages, amour.ting to five shillings per diem. 1 NEW YORK. Jan. 28ch 1920. | #lour, Bler.cad Clear St. Lawience [ rand | pr. brl. $12.70 Meal, Kilndried per 100 tbs $5.57 New Season’s Pork per brl. $46.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $44.00 Sugar---Crystals (Confirmed oy Brokers) per 100 lbs. s7.¢B. : Niolasses oY test pr iU Ibs. ro quotation Cotlui, sidding Li.and, st iiverpool per ib. 27 90-100 d. wXchange, New York and London, 69 4 days’ sight $3.504 mxchange NVew York and London, sight $3.51 LoNDOUN, Jan. 28th 1919. sugar-Den erara Crystals daty paid price. pxed by ithe Royal Cominission per ewts 10665. od. -108s. vd. muscovade, t99- Lasis, noatpg rerms in bona, Di.to duty paid. 975. 6d. 955. Od. Gernian Beet 887/¢ .o.b. no turther sales dauring he war Whie Java sugar ecif U. Kingdom cif without engagen.ent. 9. g6. White Java Sugar, cit Uunliead King- dom i zrrves betore £ovh December 85/ Denierara -wum, per gal. nominal. irinidad Cocoa, Good asiddling Red per ewil 128 . ud. 180s. od. Cotee IMe dium Fine Sea lsland, at Liv er _col nuvininat per Ib. : Bank ol iingland rate of UDisccunt per cent. 6. Consols <1 # ‘Lhree per cent renies in Paris Fes. 59.00. All prices subject to correction. THOUS ND KILLED IN MEXICAN QUAKE Coutzlan Jestroyed with 2,000 Casual- tics; Garison wiped Out MExico City, Jan. 6—Coutzlan was destroyed by Saturday’s earthquake with 2,000 casualties. including more than 1,000 dead, according to otficial re- ports @ivea ouc herz tonivht by presi- dential miatary headqaarters from ad- vices receied irom officers in the Vera Cruz cent e of disturbance. Unly two houses are left standing in the village of Couczland. Bieven nodies have been recovered . from the river at San Francisco de la Pena. Vera Cruz, in addition to 24 at Raccada. [welve soldiers were among those bu- ried unde: the ruins of the church at Coseomate pec, shaken down by rhe earth disturbance. The enti e garrison at Teocelo was kill- ed or injuied. The dead numbered 30 and the injured 60. .. Virtually all the rpads in the surround- S P el X Ay ]S ing .district were flooded or destroyed, according to the reports. Three hundred dead are reported at Barranca Grande, near Coutzian. The water level at Port Barranca del Agia rose 25 metres.—Boston Herald, Ja, 7lh. CARPENTIER AGREES TO FIGHT : "HERE Accepts Coffroth’s Offer Sets 15 Rounds Limit ® : L 5 ® Paris, Wednesdav. Jan. 7--Descamps, manager for Georges Carpentier, wired Jaines Coffroth, manager ot Tie Juana race track, last evening, acceoting the latier’s terms for a championship bout be:ween Carpentier and Dempsey in America. The only exeception taken was to the length of the battle, t’arpentier b ing unwilling to fizht more ¢han 15 rounds and favoring 10 rounds. “This talk of a 45-round tight is stu- pid,”" said Descamps last nicht. "'lf the chumpionship cannot be settled inside of 15, then neither Dempsey no iy boy is worthy to be champion of the world.” Descamps offers to split the purse fifty- fitly, claiming Carpentier is as big a drawing card as Dempsey, whether the baitle is staged in America, England or rance. French promoters were dis- heuartened by the spirited bidding of Anmericans and have given up the idea of holding the fight in this ecintry, one saving: ~‘The Americans kaocked us ou before we entered the ring.’'——lbid. ALPINE MOUNTAIN TOPPLES TO FALL. % e i Swiss Engineers Trying to Save Im- perilied Railway (ieneva, Jan. 12.—The western side of the rocky, snow-eclad mountain above Lo leche. has begzun to move toward the vailey, threatening the eleciric railway lin: below. About 3,000 cubic metres of rock are now descending and it is believ- ed the whole mourtainside v ill collapse. Fe leral engineers have beer. sent to the spci and are preparing to ol »w up a por- tiol of the mountain with d: naniite. In the meantime the electri® overhead lin's have been removed and trains are uner orders to limit their speed to 10 mies an hour, while the drives bave been e. utioned to use the utmest vig - larce. Many travelers, however, refuse to ®*ake> the risk and rhe trains have been deserted between Saiquenen and Loueche. Avalanches on both sides of the Simp- lcn tunnel have again interrupted the movemeni of the Orient expre s, while Ze:matt and Saas-Fee are isoiated by the dep snow. Numerous avalanches are rejorted along the Swiss-Italian {rontier, especially in Bernina and Splugen passes. . I'here has been small loss of life but great damage to the forests and to prop- erty.— Boston Herald, Jan. 13th. TURKS I'O sSTAY IN CONSTANTINO- PLE : Allies Fear Expulsion Would Shock Moslems Paris, Jan. 12—In the settlement of the Turkish problem it has already been de- cided that the Turks will be left in Con- stantinople, probably with fuli sovereign- ty, but after important concessions have been made in the way of administrative reforms, according to the opinion of per- sons in close touch with the conference of premiers in session here. The three premiers—-Clemenceau of France, Lloyd Gecrge of Great Britain and Nitti of Italy—met again today in continuance of tneir conferences on both the Adriatic and Turkish questions. The situation in the Mussulman woild has been strongly represented as requir- ing moderation in dealing with oriental questions. Oneresult appears to have been a curious shifting of positions by France and Great Britain. .he French originally were represented as desiring tq mainiain the Turks in Constantinople. but afterwards came around to the Brit ish view in favor of their compleie ex- pulsion. As a result of representations by Edwin S. Montagn secretary for Indig, however, the British are said in turn to have shifted their position and now hold the view originally taken by the Freunch. (xreece. while preferring o see the Turks entirely ousted from Kurope., ap- oears to beconcentraring her efforts to secure eastern I'hrace as rar as the Enos- Midia line. —lbid. “*What did the aoctor say?’’ asked her husband. ‘'Not much. He asked me to put out my tongue.”’ ''Yeés'' And he said: ‘Overworked,’’’ "*Ah! Then you’lt have to give it a rest, my dear. Thal doctor knows his business.’” - Ibid. oy "~ < Publ cation. T is berehy brought ro public notice I that Income Tax returns may be ob- tained at the office oi the Despatching Secretary. Special attenuon Isinvied to the following requircments concerring Income Tax. A return is required of each and every person (includin corporaiions) having a tota (2ross) incotie of Franes 4 500.00 Or GVer. For a tailuie to make returni ou or about March 31, any persen dncluding corporations) required (o ¢e se by the terms of the Ordinance sihail be hiable 1o a penalty of not ‘ess than Franes 100.00 nor more than Francs 5,000.00 Governnient ¢f the Virgin Islands of the United States, January 24, 1920. F.B.LUILLY Acting Despat:hing Secretai