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and private -buildings and business was * suspended generally. Another cane-piece fire, this time at Bethlehem, is reported as having oc- curred on Monday night. Frederiksted, 18th Feb. 1921. i'he s. s. "*Guiana’’ arrived here at 6 4. m. and landed some overcarried cargo Passengers from St. Kitts— Miss C. Europe, L. Herbert and child, Mrs. E. De Chabert, Mrs. Edwards and 4 chil- dren, Rose Stephens. She loaded 53 empty gasolin drums and lefr at 8.30 a. m. for New York via St. I'n .mas. 19th Feb. The s. s. "'Lake Elrio”’ from New York arrived here at 9.30 a. m. with general cargo and left for St. Kitts at 4 p. m. on Sunday. zoth Feb. The American mowor sehnr. " Myscery’”’ arrived here at 7 a.m. with generai ®ar- ¢o and passengers from Porto Rico, and left again at 10 a. m. ‘The American schnr. ‘‘Pocabontas’ arrived here at 2 o’clock this morning with generai eargo, passengers and 72 bags of mails and left again for Porto Rieo- at 6 p. m. It is understood that a quarantine has been established against Porto Rico from to-day. Correspondence Estate Annaly, February 21, 1921. To the Editor of St. Croix Ams. Dear Sir:— As a news item, whieh some of the readers of your valuad papei: mizhe be interested in, I am quoiing a stew extracis from a letter from .uy son date | the isth inst., Ralph is Chemisa_and assistant Superintendetrt of th= C :atral Mercedita Ponce, Porto Rieo. i'hey commenced grinding )ce nber 15, 1926. He writes, we are 2vi.dioy fist now. have ground to date 31,817 . tons of cane with a yield of 126% of 96 test sugar, for the pasi three wezks have been over 13%. we are doing fine fuetory work and if the sucrose in cane ke2ps up where it is at preseni, we should finish crop with an average yield of 13%. Phis 1s the first vear we have had a zhance 1o try out the seedling developed by Ur. bLongfield Snith, St. Croix 12f4 and are very much pleased vith the showing it has made, And are planting as muech acreage with itas possibl:, a 14 50 acre field gave 903.50 tons of Cane, equal to 62.31 tons per acre. ' Brix... . 19.49 Analvsis of juice Sucrose. 17.54 E- Purity. .89.99 S i LERUIa & Vid | S RPCReD CRDR. e MR 5 ' Total tons of 5ucr05e.............129.662 | . ‘Tons of sucrose per acre......... 8942 | L Netlons Dl96 BUBET. ... ooy BOUG f - You can tell Dr. Longfield Smith that ' 1 believe that 1t 1s just as good a cane as B. H. 10/12 and runs just as high in . sucrose. , i IThanking you Mr. Editor for space, Yours very truly, A.J. BLACKWOOUD., | | . son pEvEeE TR R | % 1 LLEGRAMS. ' S CROILX STAFISN, ! Berlin, Feb. {l7th. —Judging (rom the speech delivered in Karlsruhe yester- ~day by Dr. Simmons, the Foreign Minis- | ter, German political observers here are ot the opinion that he 1s looking for- ward to the coming reparauions confer: . ~ ence In London with httle optimism. i'ney direct attention especially to one . statement he made t¢ the effect that in ali probability the first attempts oi the . conterence will not lead to an undersiand- ing and that it would be extraordinari- ly difficult to agree upon new reparations . method "If we do not accept the Pa- | ris decision’’, Dr. Simons Is quoted as . saying, ‘‘Measures looking to the break- | ing up of the Empire will come into | foree’’. But, ‘Headded, ' ‘Any attack | from the outside constitution of the Em- ' pire, | gather irom my tour to south | Gzrmany, would me2t with the unani- mueus resistance oL the whoie of the p.ople. |am going to London’’, ne de- clared’’ fezling ihat the idea of the In- violabiiityof the Kmpire cannot be torn from the hearts of the German Peopie as a whole’’. | London, Feb. 17th.—Great Importance 1s being aitached to the bye-eleciicn in Cavdiganshire, Wales, where the coali- tion cantdidate, Capt2in Evans, Socre- iury to the Prewier, is being opposed ~ by*My, Williams, i.iberal, and the can- vassing on the finai dav is beiftg enaduet ed ai whnite heat. Prominent womea are active on both sides. Mrs. Lloyd George has made anotner imotor toui of the Rural districts. leaving her car to speak first . in Weish ani then in KEnglish to smali | partics of ploughmen in the fieids. !.ady . Bonham Carter, Mr. Asquith’s daught-r, is-also active on behalr of the Liberal Candidate and yesterday she delivered . twelve speeches. The independent Lib- erals are making their main attack on ~ tne Govt's Irish Poliecy. T'he Liberals will probably snow constaerable sirengh | in tie raral dis ricis, but it seems cer: | cain thac the towns wiil vote for the | Coaliton Caoinzat, wno will poll a majori- |ty of 4,999. | Londoadebraary e —Mre. Lloyd | Geeorge, qu-stioned 1n the House of Jom- ' nons oday a3 to whether the Govt will ' takes steps (0 approaca the Washinzton - and lokio Govts. witi a view (0 arrang- * ing a iimitauon of armaments, replied ~ that the question was engaging the - Govts. earnest attention and it would be ~ premature tc make a statement now, | London, Feby. 18th.—A manifesto on - the proposed German Indemnity was adopted at a joint meeting of the Parlia- mentary Committee of the Trades Union . Congress and the Executive Committee of t e Labour Party, held in London - vyesterday. It claimed that the cause of . the industrial erisis lay tor the most part | abroad. Ali Europe had been impover- | ished by war, and part of it had been . ruined by peace. ‘‘We are not faced in . the indemuity terms, says the manifesto, . with a demand for an Immense tribute - from German industry which must re- . duce still further the capacity ot the . German people, to consume our goods. - We shipped directly last year to the Ger- ' man, Russian and Austro-Hungarian - ports less than one tenth e¢f that we | sentout to them in 1913. The decrease . would suffice to account, for most of | the present unemployment. In this - g-neral improvement which by ruining i our customers had thrown out workers . Idle, there is something worse than the inevitable waste of wealth caused by the war. The Biockade of Russia was a wanton act of Policy. In clause aiter clause, the peace t(reaties have completed the ruin which the war be- gan. Germany was bidden (quite pro- perly) to work in. order that repara- tions, might be carned, but the treaty which Impos:sd this obligation took her mercantile marine, deprived her of three-fourths of her iron ore, diminished her supply of industrial coal and closed down the banks and business by which. alone she can trade abroad. ‘l. is clear that tre indemnity c¢in be paid only in exports of goods which wiil come L without ecalling tor any answering goods | byway of payment That means fur- ther disturbance oi Litish industiy. Avain, if Germany is to pay, she must desist for forty two years trom buying but absoluteiy necessary 2oods abroad. I'hat mears the British market cannot | be recovered and conszquently unem- ployment. Swamping of the Worlds Market with what are virtuaily prison . made goods will contront the British ' workers with an unprecedented form of competiiion. . : | LLondon, Feby. 18th. - 'be House of ' Commons defeated the amendment to the . address in reply o th speech [iom the | Fhrone, proposed by Mr. Bottomicy en- | suring the Govl’s poiley wiin regard to i the Lrcaty of Versailles, i'he vote was | 181 ;o 40. i Londen, Feby. 18th. --At the request | of the Colonial Oilice, the f.ondon Sehool | of Propica Medicipe s senday .n expe. | dition under the direction o Professor | Leiper, and composed, among othars, of ' Dociors Andersen, Bevers and Lee, to British Guia # and the West Indi2s o investigate Filarviasis.