USVI Public Records

Document text

ly tomorrow morning before the confer- ence. of the minets and govt. officials | reassemble. - Nothing has yet transpired | as to the nature of the miners’ new de- | mard. The policy of the. secretary re- | garding :the agreement- continued to be | maintained, but apparently the objection | of the miners was due to the fear that | the agreement as drafted might have the | effect of making permanent the applica- ! tion of the principle that wages are de- pendent upon output, and also to the idea that it might altogether preclude future | - nationalization. : g ! Dublin, Oct. 27th.—Many thousands of ™t pcunds, ‘alleged to helong to the lrish Republic, were discovered and confisca- ted when militaryforces raided the Mun- ster and Leinster Bank here yesterday. The money was ‘distributed over several - accounts in (&e bank. It is said the blow is likely to be extrgfely serious for the Sinn Fein.. sl oy 2o ' Paris, Oc¢t.-27th. —The French Foreign. | Offin~ received official .notification today | tha _reat Britain renounces therights of | confiscation: of.German property in the . United Kingdom. This has eaused great | surprise, .w hich is: freely expressed .in | French official circleés. as there had been no previous intimation that such a move was probable. French ‘officiale émphasize the ‘gravity of this move as they fear ' . Germany will makea similar request <o | France, which it'i_sydeclared_coul% not be | granted. . However they. point out the | renunciation of Great . Britain of her | . rights under ‘paragraph.18, annex 11 of | part Bof the treatyof Versailles,is not as sweeping as reported—at first.. Some | complaint is made because France is con- | fronted with an accomplished fact with- i out having been -given an opportunity to discuss the matter. It was said at .the Foreign Office today that France would send a reply to the British note, but what form the reply would take would not be ‘ dis~sed at this juncture, . Official cir- { cle, .dd that Greeat Britain retain her rights in case of wvolantary default by | Germany. - i il Lowdon, Oct. 2Tth.—The. resignation | of thé* Lithuanian Goxt. and the estab | lishment there of a- pro‘bolshevik regime | is reported ir a central news despatch from Riga. & e st E , ' Barcelona, Oct. 27th. —Barcelona Uni- | versity students today stoned the Bri- | tish consulate as a protest against the | death of the Lord Mayor of Cork Every window was broken. The students are | beiieved to: have been partisans of Ca- talonian Home Rule. | London, Oct. 27th.—In the House of | Commons: today it was stated the propo- | sal to publisha later account of the bat- | ‘tle of Jutland has been abandoned. | London, Oct. 27th.—The body of M, | MacSweeny s lying in statc tonightis | St. Georges <Cathedral. A body guard | composed of members of: the Cork and' | London Brigades of the Irish Volunteer | army dresead in civilian clothing is keep- ST. CRERuU9 IX ANViS CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 8.00. THIS EVENING 8.00. “The Secret Os The Submarine” . Ihe decret € dubmarimne . ~ EPISODES % ~ 2 , No: 8 0: 9 No: Ip. The Governmeat accepts Di, Burke’s invention enabling submarines to remain b d indefinitely.. | _ » ~ iu "[l?-rgégdurki} "“;g';:_' sly murdered. = His daughter learns The sßcret has been hidden in her father’s boo KS which were sold at auction, Aided byLieut. Hope, Cleo begins the search, but conspirators work to secure the Secret atany*mf One Fitz M_aunce' lqas two of tbe hooks. Olga and Morton, in close pursuit ofC126and Hope, strike a mine, and their boat is wrecked. (lleo and Hope 'mir*o?sly,”}eape death when Satsuma and Malin dyramite Fitz Maurice’s cabin. " Olga andg??tnu glpat inthe belief that Cleo and Tooe met death in the shattered cabin, but in the ?rstgéel.you will see in what an ingenious manner they eseaped. THE BIGGEST FIGHT FOR THE BOOKS IS COMING. 30 e ADMISSION: Reserved -Semtli <...5 ... ... iT i, Vv ol it BN . {(yeneral Entranee.... ..... . g L e 3 e Children 20 and 10e. ‘ ing vigil throughout the-night beside the coffin which shrouded in a Sinn Fein flag rests on a catafalquein the Cathedral chancel. The “first service- will be held tomorrow morning ‘at eleven ’cloek, when a requiem mass will be celebrated. Absolution-willbe given by Archbishop Mannix, ‘other dignitaries officiating. .At two'o’clock in the dfternoon the fu- peral procession will proceed from the .Cathe%ral, to Euston -Station .byway of Blackfriar Bridge, along the embank- ‘ment through the busy downtown sec- tion The Strand, Aldaych and Kingsway. London. Oct. 27th.—The Govt. Emer- geney “bill which provides for all con- tingencies in the event that the miners .strike should involve the railway and transport -workecs, was..passed through its remaining stages teday, and passed the third -reading -Wt The vote ‘was 238 t 58. - The billdid not have the smooth passage the govt. hoped for. It passed throngh the committee stage but the govt. ‘had to make further con- ' cessions to the demands of the Labour Party. The Billnow provides that noth- ing in theact shall be construed as author- izing the proclamation of any form of complusory military service, or indus- trial consetip?on?g 01;‘,m.;:: iti an offence for rs~h to participate in a strike. I,ggé?:A QOct. -’1%2!;%,45!% today in th¢ House of Commons for an official date of the end of the war, Mr. Bonar Law said it would as nearly as possible correspond with the signing of the Turkish and Bulgarian treaties by Great Britain. . : Pekin, Oct. 27th.—An " unidentified force of 2,000 Russiuns equipped wi artillery attacked the city Urga, MO& golia, last night, says a Chinese offi- cial report. The Chinese garrison which numbered 1200 men repulsed the at- tacking force. Berlin, Oct. 27th.—The municipal employment bureau announces - that 733,000 men and womepn in ‘Germany are unemployed. Os these 150.000 are in Berlin, o Ll R R SR L Mexica City, Oct. 28th.—The Cham- ber of Degputies ata special session yes- terday officially announced the election of General lg)bregon as President of (he Republic. * The Chamber named Decem- ber 14th as the date forthe infuguration of the new executive. & Demerara, Oct. 26th.—It is announced that Mr. Hector Joseph’s K. C. assistant to the attorney general of Jamaica has been appointed to act as attorney gene;- al upon the promotion of Mr. H. K. M. Sisnett acting attorney general ofBri:ish Guiana to Jamaica as'puisne judge. NEwW YORK, Oect. 29th 1920 Flour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence I:rand ' pr. brl. $10.50 | Meal, Kilndried per 100 bs $2.90 New Season’s Pork per brl. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl, $31.00 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 Ibs. $8.52. Molasses Sugar 89°. t%; ne gueotation. Cotton, Middling Upland, at Liverpool per b, 16 556-160 d. Exchange, New *York and London, 60 V%ys’ sight $3.42 Exchange New York as London, sight / W 88 463 LONDON, Oect. 29th 1920. Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- ed price, duty paid 1205 94 ° - "' Demerara Crystals free of ‘con- _ trol, duty paid, 905.. 100s. ‘ " Moscovado Govt. cotrolled price, “++ duty paid, 1245. 9d*