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Faris, June 3rd.—The King of Greece, accompanicd by the Greek Minister, yes- terday visited Verdun and conferred ihe Hellenic war cross on the city. He paid a long visit to the battlefield and was profoundly touched by the spectacle of desolation around the city, whose name for all the. Allies is symonymous with supreme herolem. Paris June 41h.——The Exeeuilive Uoun- ¢il of the League of Nations will meet shortly in London, for the parpose of dis- cussing the suitable coarse to he adopt-d with regard to the request for interven- tion presenied by the Parsian Minister ior Foureign Affairs. Rome June Bd. —-The King has signed a decree creating & Ministry of Labour and Social matters. ; Paris June 4th.—No contirmation has becn received here of the reporied eniry of the Bolshevik ‘orces into Tehsron. NEW York, June 2nd 1920 “iour, Wencead Ciears St. Lawrence Frand br, brl. $13.96 mMeal, Kilndried per 100 ibs $4.45 cew Season’s Pork per bri. $42.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $42.00 sugar---{rystals maximum spot per 100 ibs. $22.07. viviasses Sugar 89° tesi, no quotation. Motton, AMiddling Upiand, at l.iverpool per th 26 10--1004. ioxchange, New York and London, 60 days’ sight $3.90% lixchange New York and London, sight | , £3.944 LONDON, June 2nd 1920. Sugar-Demerara Crystals, ({(free of Govt. trol) duty paid per ewt. 1455. od. 150s. od. Sugar Muscovado, (free ot Govt. control price for May)duty paid per cwt. 1425. 9d. GGerman Beet 88-/: {.o.b. no sales White Java sugar cif United Kingdom 115s. od.—os. od. Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cocoa, Good Middling Red per cwt 130 s. od. 1355. od. Cottc Medium Fine Sea lsland, at Liv: erpool per lb. nominal Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. T. Consols 474, Three per cent renies in Faris Fes. 56.75. Moscovado Govt. controlled prices for June duty paid 1375. 9d. Moscovado free of Govt. controi duty e paid 110s. od. 120 s. od. A very pretty wedding took place last evening in the Reformed Dutch Church, when Mr. Charles O. Granberg married Miss Marion RBRlanche Souffront, eldest daughter of Mr. Jules H. and the late Mrs. Souffront of this island. The bride was led to the altar by her father. She was beautifully gowned in white silk] and carrieda lovely shower boquet of white flowers. The cer:smony was per- formed by Rev. J. Folensbee, pastor of the church, Mrs. Folensbee singing as a solo 'O Promise Me’’. After the cere- &1 LRI X AN IS mony, a few fiiends of the ramily were received at the residence of the bride’s father, where the health ors the happy couple was proposed by Mr. George Levi. We take the pleasure in wishing the newly married pair a long and happy union.—Com.-—St. Thomas Muail Notes, Ist June. 'he British steamuer '‘Lansdowze’’, of Ottawa was bought this morning by she St. Thomas Shipbrokers’ Association for the sum of $13,350, U. S. c@rrencyv. Mr Chas. W. Daniel was the auctioneer.— {bid. RED CROSS HEROES. Correspondent Tells' of Deed of Spien- did Bravery. From Hill 212, overlooking #ore-an- Tardencis and the valley of the Oureq, William Slavens MeNutt, Colliers’s cor- respondent, wateh d the Ameriean in- fantry start the Germans on their final retreat from Reims-Soissons-Chateau Thierry pocket. He says: “*And then I saw thbe most painfullv dramatic thiag 1 have witnessed in all this war. Out from the little strip of wood that the Americans nad just cap- tured, walking slowly out into that open, bullet-swept field over which the charge had passed, I saw two men with the braesard of the Red ©Cross on their arms bearing a wounded men on a litter. They had perhags 800 yards to go back across that open field before the curve of the hill would shelter them from the ma- chine gun fire from the hill above. And they could not run, they could not duck, they could not take cover. They must walk upright on their work of mercy, walk upright in thar siorm of lead. and, walk slowly for the burden they bore ! ““There go iwo men,’’ the captain said solemnly. ‘‘They bhaven’t got a chance in that fleld. The machine gun will get’m sure! Wateh!”’ : I watched. 1 have never watched any- thing so intently in my life. And with all the fervency of reverence and belief that there was in me, 1 prayed for those two men of merey over there who could not fight back; those men vho had made the charge up the hill with their com- rades of the vun and bayouei, and must now march back bearing a wounded fighting man to safety; back tnrough that storm of lead that was sweeping the field from the big wood—march back standing straight and walking slow. So slow ! They had made perhaps a handred yards when one of them slipped to his knees and rolled over. ““I told you’’ the captain exclaimed, ““They’ve got 'em ! “‘Only one,”’ Isaid. ''The other fel- low’s not hit.”’ : : They’ll get him.’’ the captain pro- phesied gloomily. [ saw the unwounded man kneei by his stricken comrade. For the space of a minute he knelt there, I suppose applying first aid. Then he stood erect. And then the man who had been hit, the strecher bearer on the ground, rose slowly —oh, so very slowly—till he was propped up on one elbow. Then to his knees. Slow! Then very, very slowly he got to his feet. Once up, he leaned over —and. from where I was, through my glasses I could see by the movement the pain it cost leaned over, grasped the handles of the litter, and straightenod up again. He had been hit, but he was going on! On they went. 1 have no power to deseribe how slowly they seemed to be moving across that deadly open field. A hundred yards! Another hundred would mean comparative satety under the siope of the hill. Fifty of that accomplished! Twenty five more! And then, siowly yet, they vanished from sight under the protective slope. They had made it! I think I shouted, 1 know Ttried to, andIknow that my kness were suddenly too weak to hold me up andI abruptly knelt and grasped the slim pole of the little lone tree near by to steadyv myself. Red Cross Bulletin. A MILLION DOLLARS IN AMERICAN DRUGS The American Red Cross gave »utright $1,000,000 tc purchase drugs and other medicai supplies lor French soldiers, dur- ing the dark days of the war, when the French Red Cross found itself unable to provide forth 2 780,000 wounded men ly- ingill in the hospitals. This is oniy part »f the assistance rendered the French wo- men war workers by the American orean- ization, according to Countess d’ Has. sonvilie, a prominent French woman. On the occasion of the closing of sh.. war time co-operative arrangement be tween the French and the American or- ganizations the Countess declared tha. the work of the ten thousand French women who cared for Franée's thrcoe. guarters oY a million wounded men would have been Impossible s ve {or American aid.—Every Day iafe. IOTICFE EACKE.. PAH’I'!L,S indebtea to W. ‘l'. Hor- ton for bhooks vpurchased are requested to pay the instalments due to the undersigned without delay, as otherwise legal steps wili be taken for enforcing pavment. A. E. STAKEMANN, Lawyer e eheclGa