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Clyde Steamship Co. “FOREIGN SERVICE” (Steamers operated by the Clyde Steam- ship Co., Foreign Service, for account U. S. Shipping Board. THE S. S. “MARTINIQUE"” sailed from New York on Thursday and is due here on or about the 12th inst. : ROB’T. L. MERWIN & Co. INC,, Ageis. LIST OF UNCLAIMEDMAILFOR THE WEEK ENDED APRIL 7, 1923. Mr. Lirrey A. Brandt, Mrs. Cathrine Dawids, Mathildier Williams, Mr. Ivaie Yeaeell. Post Office. Christiansted, Virgin Is- lands, April 9, 1923. B. R. LARSEN, Postmaster. OCAL The U. S. S ‘“‘Grebe’’ arrived here at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon with the following passengers: Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Gibson, Capt. R. H. Jeschke, Lieut. Hull, Lieut2nant R. J. Monteith, Lieut. J. C. Gebhard, Messrs. A. J. Blackwood, J. L. Curry, D. Noll, D. S. Armstrong, F. Andersen, D.. C. Canegata, A. R. Melntosh, Jos. Alexander, K. Henderson, and son, Axel Thage, Norman Skeoch, James George, George Seaman, R. A. Frederiks (Asst. to Colonial Council), G. de la Motta, and 20 Marines. She also brought four bags of mail and car- ried mail for St. Thomas and San Juan, P. R.. at which port she will call to-day. The ship sailed again for St. Thomas at 6.15 o’ciock p. m. yesterday. Soaking showers of rain fell here last night, measuring 3% lines as recorded at the fort, Remember tonight’s treat at St. Mary’s Hall. For advice about this entertain- ment see contribution on this page. Owing no doubt to the inclemency of the weather the theatre was very poorly attended last night, for which reason the management has decided to repeat the 4 reels of the Sky Rangers shown last night again on Thursday night the programme for which will then be 10 reels in all concluding this splendid serial which is well worth seeing. PASSENGERS LIST. April Tth—per s. s. ‘‘Marina’” from Porto Rico—Viggo Waulff. Ota Wulff, ‘ Gonzalo Aponte. From St. Thomas— | Inger Qlsen, Hans Emil Hatchett. ‘ s L)X AVID AT ST. MARY'S MOVIES TUESDAY NaGHE 1! Will be screered '‘The City of Si'ent Men”’ (starring Thomas Meigh n), com- monly called Sing Sing - situat .d on the Hudson River, where many innocent convicts are railroaded to jail but though innocent they ean never prove it. This is a heart-breaking story of a mother who never could have had a bet- ter son, he was always by her side just a few days before he was arrested. The City of Silent Men is one of the most interesting and stirring dramas you will ever see. It's the kind of drama that you can never - tell what is coming next. You are sure to like it and more than *hat you wil. go home feeling satis- fied and with the bope that you might see itagaii.. St .ure your seats in time and don’t miss seeing this picture. We hear that we are going to have Wallace Reed next week, good boy.— Com. TELEGRAMS. e ST. CROIX STATION. San Juan. P. R., April 6th.--The Sec- retary of the Navy, Mr. Denby arrived here this morning on the U. S. Transport Henderson, in order to be present at the inauguration of Mr. Towner, as Gov- ernor, at 10.30 a. m. today.. Mr. Denby was met. by a Representative Business Committee and a Government Commit- tee. Governor fowner arrived yester- day and met by a delegation of leading officials and private citizens. A large crowd filled the streets. St. Johns, Nfld., April sth.--Deter- mined ~forts are being made by the Newfounw.and Goverament to send food supplies to sta."in~ <ettlements along the South coast, isolated for maay wee' the ice fields that block their harbours. The mail steamer Kyle, plying between this port and Sydney, today was taken off that route and will lzave tomorrow for the southern settlements laden with provisions. Paris, April sth.——The French press, of all shades of political opinion, de- nounce the execution of the Vicar-Gen- eral, which it terms an assassination and an outrage to wmodern civilization. At- tention is called by some of the editorial writers to the similarity of the circum- stances in this case and the assassination of the late Czar Nicholas, which they point out also took place in a cellar. “'Le Journal’’ declares that if it is true, as the Russian newspapers are quot2d as saying, that the red leaders demanded “*a Catholic victim for the Catholic East- er’”’, it is a confession of '‘the ritual character of the assassination’’ .Gustave Herve, in ‘‘La Victoire’’, says the execu- tion will.serve as a rude lesson to the western World and all the intellectual, moral and social groups responsible for civilization. New York, April sth.—Members of the Leogue of Nations would be willin, to withdraw articie 10 of the cove?nt of the League ifthat were the only obstacle to United States cooperation, Lord Ro- bert Cecil, British propanentof the League of Nations, declared last night in an ad- dress before the League of Nations, non- partisanassociation. ‘'There are some people”, he said who criticize the League’ on the ground that some of the provi- sions, article 10 in particular, crystal- lize the-actual conditions which prevail in consequence of the Versailles and other Paris treaties’’. Lord Robert de- clared that iny his opinion the League did not create any such arbitrary conditions It was, he said, a more flexible arrange- ment: capable -of change and improve- ment, Article 10;he said, might be eli- minated. Provision must be made, he added, for the submission for discussion to the assembly of the League of any treaty which proved undesirable, or like- ly to disturb tre peace of the world. London, Aprilsth.—The only London newspapers to ignecre the news of the marniage of Lady Northeliffe were the Daily Mail, one of the late Lord North- cliffe’s publicatio s, now conducted by his brother, Lord Rothermere, and the latter’s Daily Mirror. The Evening News, which was owned by Lord North- cliffe, gave an account of the wedding in its later-editions. Some of the morning newspapers made the event their chniei feature. Dusseldorf, April 6th.—Articles of daily pecessity ranging all the way from tea kettles to auiomobiles were confis- cated in large quantities by the French at Boechum yesterday, according to re- ports from German quarters. Berlin, April 6th.—Serious conflicts in the Ukraire between the Bolsheviks and peasants are reporied in despatches received here byway of Lemberg. The Bolshevists are declared to have execu- ted 340 peasants, apparently because of protests against the Soviet persecution of high church dignitaries. Moscow, April 6th.—lt is announced that, Justice Calkin, who presided over the ‘Soviet ‘court which recently tried Archbishop Zepliak, Viear-General Butch- kaviteh and the other Catholic priests and Nikolai Krylenko who was the prosecu- ting attorney, will officiate in the trial of the Most Rev. Dr Tikhon, .former Patri- arch of aH: Russia, which has been set for Aprit 11th. .With Dr. Tikhon will be tried .Archbishop Tikander of Moscow, Archbishop Arseny of Novgorod and M. Gourieff, secretary of the :Holy Synod, who will be accused under several arti- _cles of the criminal code, including the counter revolutiouary articl2 which per- mits of the: death penalty if the court so will. Sebastopol, April 6th.—After a lapse of 18 yeare. Lieutenant Stevenaki, who took part in the execuiion of Lieut. Schmidt, Commander of the Russian cruiser Tehakoff and who in 1905 he aded