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&t( ; fj\\\ o 51 Y CAR. CARISTIANSTED. V: (. U.S. A.. FRIDAY 9tH APRIL 1929 When four s®bmarines of Phe 'K tvie”’ finelly started oversecas. one of them had to be towed, because neither en- gine would run and when these “our submarincs finally .reached the Azcres, one Wwas entire'y disabled one avaiizble ‘forlimitcd service, ore '‘slightiy b« ter off’’, aud only one ready for duty. Ihe Admiral said he began réecommen ing the building o! larger types of sulinu- vines in 1915, but that he receivec no suppurt froin the Government. - Copenhagen, March 30%h.—L:rge crowds filled the public squares throv ¢h- out the city las: night, demanding the establishment of a Danish repubiic. All the streets leading to the Rcyal Palace are held by the police. London, March 30th.— M. Telitehe in, Russian Soviet Farsion Minisier, has notified Poland f Lis willingness (o open peace negotiations on April Ith, as suggested by Poland, aecorcing toa wireless messave from Moscow toovay M. Tehitcherin suggests that the m et- ing be h:id somewhere in Esthonia. ® The Hague, March 30th.—-Accorcing t 0 a statemen: from an authorita ive Juieh source the defeat of Ked trcops on the Ruhv diswrict 61 Germany clo: cly resembles a parie As the scene of 'l {ighting has been furiber removed, he Duteh frontier guards corps was de- creased yesierday and the velun cer corps which wuas mobilized las: w ek has demobilized. The Berlin V- waerts’’ reporis thac General Lowen feld;, at- the head of a naval brige de, has entered the Ruar region to ficht the insurgents there. Delhi, India, March 30th.—The Spe:iai Council appointed by the National ( n-. gress to enquire into the recent disti b ances in the Punjab has publishec its re- port. It says the commissicn find (qat Lovrd Chelmsford, Vieeroy and Governv Gereral of Indiz, is ineay able of hoid ng his high office and recommends s recall. It declares that no conspiiioy designed' te overthrow the Bri sh vsovt, has teen nroved, and finds other inc dents not established, and that (he facts did not justity the piociemaiion of martial law in connection with- the “mritsar affair, 1o which the slauph- ter occurred when a crowd of natives were fied upon iast April, and whiek is deseribedin the repo: as a celeulared piece: of inhumanity, unparalleied in ferocity. The report Fleinands that Si Michael O’Dwyer, General Dyer, wo Colonels, Depuiy Coramissioner Sn iih and two Indians sha.! by relicved of THE 357. CRIIX AVIS | 18 printed and pudblished daily (Sundays | wrd Holidays excepted) by G. .Johansen ’ at the Avis Office. | DR S---50 c2nts monthly v ady tace, - | 2 conts per single copy. - ? sintered as second-class matter May | 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- | o sted, Si. Creix; Vi L of the U, S. Ay, unts} dzr the et of March 3. 1879 ‘ . Contribution to this paper will be glad- | ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of eneral interest, and s accompa- | nied wiih the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be | respons:ble for thewiews of his correspon- dents nordoes he necessarily endorsethem TELEGRAMS. ST. CREX-STATION. (Delayed in transmission.) Loadon, March 29th. T'he mine work- ers del gates at a confersnce here de- cided upon a ballot of the men as to - whether the Govt’s. offer of twenty per | cent increase’ on their gross earnings | should he accepted, or a strike called for | the thvee shillings minimum increase demanded. This decision was arrived at after considaration of the Govern- ment’s new proposai of a twealy per cenl increase on gross earnings as the miniium, a flat advance of two shiilings for all workers over eighteen years of | age, ona shilling for workérs between sixteen and eighteen years, and nine- vence ior workers under the age of six- teen years. t Washington, Mareh 29th.—-The United States navy’s submarine equipment dui- ing the war was entirely inadequate, Adwiral Grant, formerly in command of the Atlantic fleets submarine force, testi- ?.ed before the Senate Committee investi- ' gating the .navy’s 'part in the. wvar. | Amon he skeietons which the Admiral | let come out, were the following: That | the «Jlnited States submersibles were too | small, of widely different types, of small | radius of action, inadeguately armed | and poorly designed as to engines. it took, he declared, nearly two years’ propaganda to get the United States Navy Dept. to realize the import- | ance of building submarines capable of combatting the eight hundred ton ; German U-boats, and that if the fifteen submarines which he had been instiuct- ed to send over reached the Azores, they would be laid up for rvepairs prac- tically all the time, as they had been ever since they had been commissioned. No. 80. their offices. The repeal -f what are known as the Rowlatt acts and the punishment of certain miror Indian officials is also demanded. Copenhagen, March 30th. - The Gov- ermental crisis in Denmark turns upon the disposition of the second Schleswig zones. Premier Zahle consideied this question as settled iu favour of Germany by the recent plebiscite, but there has been a strong agitation among the op- position parties, who favour at leasta provision for the internationalization of Flensburg and the second Schleswig zone. The partigs point out that the Zahle Ministry lacked a mandate to di- rect the country’s policy in this matter, a d that the former Premier at the last election had promised to again apreal to the country as soon as the war was end- ¢d. A despatch tothe “‘Berlingske Ti- dende’ from Flensburg says that a de- putation -of citizens has presented a pe- tition, signed by eighteen thousand Flensburgers to the International Con- mission, protesting against being sur- rendered to Prussian hatred. vengeance and persecuticn, it transyires that King Christian asked the Ministry to provi- sionally direct the affairs jof the country, bt the Premier Zahle refused. London, Mareh 80th.—Mrv. 1. P. O’Cor,- ner, Irish Nationalist in the House of Commons, ye=sterday severely ecriticized the provisions of the lrish bill, which he declared was a bill fur making a worse Govt. in Ireland. and that its adoption would not enable the Govt. to withdraw & single soldier from lieland. He did not believe there was the slightest possi- bility of establishinga republic in Ire. land, either by consent or rebellion. Mr., Austen Chamberlain, in defending the bill, appealed to the House to make 3 supreme effort to settle the difficult prob- lem and he p?eaded with the Nationalicts to win over Uls er and so make her ope of the proudest of the Parliament in Dub- lin. Captain Craig, Unionist member for south Antrim, said ‘he bill gave Ulster virtually everything Ulster had fought lOk v+ "Grenada, A ril 4th.- It is offcially gnnouncec thhr H. R. H. the Prince of Wales will visit Grenada on cor about the 30th of September, on ‘his return voyawe from Australia. eete e . eet A et ee Richard Zakers is asked to call at the Post Office, Christiansted.