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K Gl . W _ 5 ( X¢ = oy i \/L‘ } ',' /ll} ;&6 \L\ :/] o \\/\;/ 'a\ \ \W‘]\,/\ 3 [ »V\,‘, ) /LL(Q :\ \ g@H ]\m?&/ é\\\\ l? : 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED. V.II. U.S. A., WEDNESIL AY 14tH APRIL 1920, commanding the forces, has full a tho- rity to use his I'osces for policing tk : oc- cupied districts, ®for The preservatic n of order and to repel apy attack made upon him. Trieste, April Ist.—The Italian Covt. has notified Gebriel D’Annunzio tkac it will have to uccept President Wilson's project for the settlement of the A lia- tic question. #n grvoy from Prenier Nitti has been o Flume, where ht r ade this decision krown to D’ Annunzio. Honolulu, A3-il Ilst. Seven hun ired Japanese troop:s and civilians were kitled | in a two days’ battle with Russian Etol- shevik forces =zt Nicolaevsk, accor-ing | to a lokio cab.e despatch receivea by the Japanese Paper *"Nippujiji’’here ‘ Paris, April Ist.—Everything is in readiness at San Remo, ltaly, for the arrival of the delegates tor the P:ace | Conference, which now seems defini ely | set for April the tenth or eleventh. Vr. | Lloyd George :nd Mr. Bonar Law lave | reserved apartirents ior hemseives ind their staffs. I: is understond in Paris that at the time of the Conference P 'es- | ident Des¢hanel will meet the King of | Italy, and that the meeting will be of an unofficial :haracter. The Brit sh, French and Itaizn squadions, which are stationed at Vil.efranche, will anchor at San Remo while the Conference is In session. Honoluiu, Avril Ist.—2ccording 1o a despatch from 'Tokio to the Japar ese paper ‘‘Hoehl’’. The Chizt of tke :Ail- itary General Staff annournced today hat the Japanese forees will be retainec in Siberia for the protection >f the lite .ind property of Japinese snbj:cts, as we as for reasons of natioral defence. ' Lis announcement is takeiy to mean a cha ze in the withdrawal polcy cutlined by the Premier. Reports from Siberia, recei s d by the "'Horst ', state that there i: a strong anti-Jacanese feeling among the Russians. - New York, AprilIst. —Obeying a st ike call involving e ght thousand to fift:en thousand men, at the c.ews operating che Railway Ferry Boats, began at rine o’clock today laying up their craft, a:ter the rush of hom:ward bound commut rs had ended. The engin2 rcom and dck forces of the railway-owned tugs :nd lighiers were called cut this afternoon, and all the railwvay ferries operated ne- tween Manhatter and the Jersey shore, | except the Lackawanna Lines, whch were able to continue through thiee previous strikes aregaifected. The nmen are striking, acc"'rg*g to the officers of the Amalgamated Udion, in order to en- | force the continued observance of ihe . THE ST. CRJIX AVIS is printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly vn alvance, 2 cents per single copy. e S i ntered as second-class matter May 26ith 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- sted. N 6 Croiy. V. L ol the U.=s. 4., un der the Act of March 3. 1879. g pis (b Ye Rl e ARt _-,_____,_*-_,__ Li Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. (Delayed in transmission.) London, April Ist.—The exchange re- turns for the financial year just ended show a revenue of 1,339,5671,381 pounds, being an increase of 450,500,000 pounds over the preceding year. The expendi- ture was 1,665,772,928 pounds, showing a decrease of 913,500,000 pounds. The year’s expenditure theretfore was more than 826,000,000 pounds in excess of revenue. Montreal April Ist.—A London tele gram to the ‘Star’’ says that Musfapha Kamil, leader of the Turkish Nationalist rebels, has declared war on Grear Bri- tain, a despateh from the Constantinople correspondent of the ‘“*Morning Post”’ said today. Paris, April Ist.—A mandate fer Ar- menia has been offered the League of Nations by the Supreme Allied Council. All Armeni n territories would be in- cluded, with the exception of Ciiicia, which would be left under French pro- tection. An outlet to the Black Sea would be provided by the arrangement under contemplation. The Hague, April ist.—Mosi of the towns in the Ruhr district are in the power of the Extremists, who are in- viting the worters to leave their work and join the Red army, according to the Dutch Press. Washington, April Ilst.—The Ameri- can troops on the Rhine are subject only to orders from the President of the United States as Commander in Chiet of the army, President Wilson wrote to Congress in response to a resolution of ingairy adopted by the Bouse. Marshal Foch has no authority over American troops, he said, Major-General Allen, No. 84. eight-hour day, which they say is threat- ened by the action of one of the rail- ways in selling a part of its tugs and harbour barges to ‘‘a so-called indepen- dent company not under the jurisdiction of railway regulations, and a number of employees of the Erie Kailroad operating these boats having been laid off with the sale of the property, the Unions are :sking for their reinstatement. Washmgton, April Ist.—The Republi- can leaders in the House completed todav their plans to put through a week from tomorrow, the resolution declaring the state of war with Germany at an end. The measure was favourably reporred today by the Foreign Affairs Committee and will be taken up next Thursday under the nine-hour debates rule, which will bring the vote on Friday. The ac- tion of the Republica s, said Mr Cum- mings, Chairman of the Democratic Nationals, in a statement to the press representatives, is at about the lowest peint of moral eapacity to which the Republican leadership has descended. It was an aitempt to use the treaty ol Versailles without first aceepting it, and could and probably wouid iead to inter- national complications, the seriousness of which it is difficult at this time to conjec- ture. Ottawa, Avpril Is'.—A material ad- vance in the price of flour in Canada is indicated in an announcement made here on behalf of Canadian millers by Mr. (G orge MacDonald, representing the Quaker Oats Company and head of the delegation of representative millers which waited npon the Government yes- terday to discuss the serious situation which the Canadian mills are facing. As a result of the Canadian Wheat Board continuing the restrictior. on the price of flour in the Canadian market, and the lack of an export market for Canadian flour, an increase will be necessary to get the rising cost of manufacture. The scarcity of mill feed in C nada is directly traceable to the lack of a market for flour and the consequent decr ase in the volume of domestic milling. The millers state that they have asked the Govein- ment to moaify the regulations, and co- operate with them in inducing foreign buyers to take 2 reasonable proportion of Canadian wheat. Vast quan.ities of flour are said to be available in the United States for export and this complicates the Canadian problem. It is said that more than four thousard men have al- ready been thrown out of employment by the forced closing of some of the mills of which they are about five hun- dred in Canada.