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Dept. asked :iv: United : States to s:nd a sugar expert to Cuba to size up the sugar situation in the island in‘con :ection with the offer of New York bankers to finance the Cuban sugar crop provided the Cuban Govt. will issue bonds te the amount of { the advances to them. This communica- tion has beea sent by <Mr, Colby to New. York bankers who have agreed to finance the erop with a request that they name an expert who will be satisfactory ifi or- der that Mr Colby may appoint anex- ~ ~ pert as requested by-the Cubans. . Paris, Oct. 28th.—Germany must. de- liver 275,000 tous of shipping to the Al- lies as compensation for the sinking of- - German fleet in the Scapa Flow, the Reparations Committee decided today. London. Oct. 28th.—An incident of jast night’s debate in the House of Com- mons was the spirited retort by Sir Ha mar Greenwood to Mr. Devlin wio had spoken of the Irish agministrition as that ~ of a Canadian ChiefSecretary Sir Hamar declared, that the record of Canadian em- < »* ~ history was oone to be proud of and no part of the empire was imore fayoured. He regrettad, and he, e every paper would repeat his statement that the first Cana- -dian in the position of Chief Secretary of Ireland should be aitacked because he was a Canadian. yo - : Paris, Oct. 28th. -Germany, according * to despatehes, submitted to the Council - -of Ambassadors, Wwill strictly observe the - ~zxllied interpret tion of ‘the -clause in ‘the peace treaty providing that the Kiel Canal shall be free to inteinational traf- fic. This is a reversal tothe German Govt’s. previvus atiitude- under whicih vessels carrying arms to Poland were stopped. Edrly this month the Council of Ambassadois demanded the immedi- ate release of the ships: loaded with - ammuritions for Poland whieh were be- . ing held in the Kiel Canal by the Ger- man authorites. The note peinted out that Germany’s action- constituted a div violation of che treaty ®f Ver- sailiés ia 'as much as that treaty spe cifies .hat the Kiel Canal isa iree wa- ‘ter way for all nations of the world. ‘Germany had taken the position that she was neutral in the Russo-Polish war and therefore she c-uld not permit the passage of ship:. ' San Juan, P. R., Oct. 30th.-—Spanish cruiser Espana left for Colon 5 p. m. yesterday. : : Demerara, Oct. 27th. -At a meeting of the Diocesan Synod of British Guiana, now .in session, His Grace the Arch- bishop of the West Indies, Dr. E. A. Patry, announced that within the next few months he proposed to retire. His Grace ‘gave as his reason that the work now was more than ‘he could accom- plish and that a younger man must come and take it in hand.. ; London, Oect. 28th. —The prospect to-- - night is the coal strike will termipate ‘by the end .of next week through the miners ace tance 0i the agrecment ar | ST. CRULX A VS ranged with the Government under ] ‘which the miners will get two shillings advance unconditionally until the end | . of the year and-in the future their wa- | ges will be settled by the creation of | a National Wages Board. In the event ' of any delay in' starting the Wages | Board, wages will in the interval be set- ‘ tied on the basis of increase or decrease, | according to surplus profits or other- | wise from coal exports.. This depends | upon much complex calculations as to | render it hardly ‘possible for any miner to understand therefore in the ballot | to be taken next Tuesday and madé re- | turnable Wednesday the miners must | necessarily be guided by the recommep-; | dation of their leaders. The leaders | favour a settlement on these terms. The | agreement is skilfully arranged so that | all concerned, ‘including the coal min- ers, will be ‘interested in increas- | ing the output, as in case of a decrease | ~output the owners will be penalizéed by | a reduetion in their ten "percent share | of the surplus profits. The terms | ; which the executive body of the miners - are recommending to the men provide | for an advance of two shillings ver shift | for persons 18 years of age, with a - porresponding advance for younger min- | ers. The miners pledged themselves | to-cooperate to the fullest extent to ob- | tain an increased output. ‘l'ne Govt. is- ! sued a s:atement similar to *hat of Mr. | | Hodge’s that the baliot of the men | would be taken immediately. The terms | |' provide that the ircreased wages will | 'remain operati e until a permanent | ‘-_.Wag:: board is.established,” which will | beiin operation- by the .end of Mareh. | l> The additional cost of the miners’ claim | - will come outof the excess revenues irom | I .the export of coal. The output for last, E September is the: average struck whieh o - willinfluence the rise gryfall of- a sliding. . scale which is tooperateto the extent of | a sixpence reduetion in wages if the out: . put does not come up to.the September | figures, or a rise of six pence if the out- ~ put is bigger. Only sixpence rise will | be calculated for every gomplete £288,000 value of excess in revepue over the Sep- | tember figures.- The wages will be ad- | justed January :;d. again. I Berlin, Oct. 29th.—Pan German ele- | ments are agitating for an .economic al- liance with England as the unly way in | which Germany ean regain her pre-war | commercial prestige. The radical wing | of the eonservatives believe the Europz- | .an situation has made such a union not | only practicable, but probable, and are | urging that ancient hates be forgotten i and an understanding reached between | the two nations. Germany must reckon | in international and Kuropean commerce. , ‘Writers in the newspapers discuss at | length the problem of laying what they | ‘say is an unabating anti-German teeling —among the English. The '‘Kreuz Zeit- ‘ ung”’, the old organ of the manarchists, | says in editcrial; 1t we have in mind any foreign alliance, only England can be considered. la. fully aware that [ will meet with the earnest opposition of many of my comrades when I suggest an alli- ance with England, which has done everything to destroy us. In spite of it, I hazard to recommend an alliance with Englanu on the following grounds. Poli- tiecs are not founded on sympathies. That is the first lesson that the honest German should learn from his English cousin. We should possess enough clev- erness to put sympathy out of our poli- tics, and as a wise business people, travel with the partner who can make the go- ing profitable. and that England certain- ly can do’’. New York, Oct. 29th. —The market for raw sugar was dull and still unsettled and quota‘ions more or less irregular. Refiners were confining their interests to occasional purchases of small lots of {ul] duty sugars in very prompt posiicns. b @ Just Received ard for sale by & ‘W. 5. Abramson. - Wtite FPine Lumber dressed on both sides with rlain edge and groove and tengue. Pitct: Pne Flooring dressed on both sidest : & Shingles first anc second quality. e e- - Ex S. S. “Kathadin” & “Ko- R POTATORS. . ONIONS; APPLES, CARBAGES, MIiKED VEGETALLES, SELECTED FAMILY BEEF, waAMILY MESS PURK, PICKLED' MACKERIZLS, ‘ - e SALMON, BACON, AND A FiN& AS3ORTVENT OF GROCERIES. : You gre invited %o come and see my Stock. Christiansted, 13’ Oct, 192v. . A. K. Mclntosh.