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Correspondence To the Editor of St. Croix Avis. Dear Sir:— In yous issue of January 11, a cor- respondent—Whip—has raised some very pertinent questions, which if answered, would not only make interesting reading but would serve to enlighten us, consid- erably, about this phase of our economic condition. But maybe, we, as a price weary public, are too tired ‘‘to delve into our economic probiems.”” We welcome the reduction in the prices of meat, with- out thought of who have been instiumen- tal in causing the reduction. Those who are the causes cf ‘‘this mystifying cut,”’ deserve thanks, nevertheless. And a full explanation from them would be quite in place. In the meanwhile, another reduction is necessarv., The price of mutton is 28c the pound presently —twice as much as what is asked for a pound of steak and roast. In St. Thomas, little over two months ago, the price of goat and sheep mutton was 16¢, and that price was con- sidered high, by the St. Thomas public. For a long, long, time, we have been satisfied to pay a high price for mutton. But it is now time gto appeal to our butch- ers, and sheep raisers, t» bring down the price to something more in accord with the downward trend of prices in general. Perhaps the promoters of the Cooper- ative Butchery will find it possible to make a further, and nore reasonable, re- duction in the price of mutton. If they muke this lead, they are sure to note in- creased patronage. Very truly yours, AMO. QUERY. Will Mr. David Jackson let the Share- holders know something about their in- terest in ‘‘The Herald’’ Printing Plant ? We have been awaiting for years the promised statement, and at this particu- lar time it will greatly allay the fears of the Share-holders. ONE INTERESTED. TELEGRA MS. ST. CROIX STATION. Geneva, Jan. 15th —7The council of the League of Nations today will attempt to settle the controversy between Finiand and Soviet Russia with regard to East- ern Karelia while the course of the ar- guments has been *worked for several months of guerilla warfare. The Mar- quis Imperial Difranca Villa was charg- ed with framing a resolution in answer to Finland’s appeal for mediation of the difficuity and this will form the basis of today’s attempt at a settlement. Washington, Jan. 15th.—If the Shan- tung conversations make the progress hoped for by conference leaders during 5 1. CRWLX A-YiS the next two or three days the end of the coming week may see all the issues raised in the Washington negotiations well on the way toward solution. Geneva, Jan. 14th.—M Paul Hymans, President of the councii of the League of Nations, this morning presented to the council a telegrem which Cardinal Mer- cier, Primate of Belgium, had received from the protestant community ard the Armenian Catholie patriarchate of Con- stantinople, stating the entire Armenian populations had decided tr evacuate the count'y. The telegram urgently appealed for vessels to transport 120,000 persons. Constantinople, Jan. 15th. —15,000 Greeks and Armenian refugees are being sent from this city to the island of Cyp- rus in ships provided by the Greek Govt. 20,000 others are awaiting transportation, but the French authorities are persuading Christians not to go as they have secured formal guarantees tnat the Turks will respect their lives and property. Dublin., Jan. 15th.-——The provisional Government of the Irish Free State is now a cantioning body. Final formali- ties for approving the treaty with Eng- land were ecarried out on Saturday, wher, after a meeting in the Mansion House of representatives of the South- ern Irish constituencies who formally ratified the treaty, E. Duggan took to the castle a copy of the treaty signed by the members of the new Govern- ment as provided for in the terms of the peacepact. Members elected to sit in the House of Commors in Southern Ire- land attended the morning meeting. No women representatives for the ad- herents of Eamon De Valera were pre- sent The speech made by Mr. Griffith at the meeting contemplated the com- plete suppression of the Dail on tre election of a State Parliament. The drafting of a constitution will be the most important work of the provisional Governmeunt. Constitutional lawyers here and pernaps in Britain probable will be called in te assist. Dublin Castle autbori- ties say the DBritish Government will he glad to lend its experts to help frame the instrument. Feeling in Dublin is highly optimnistic and cheerful. Paris, Jan. 16th.—'ihe New cabinet, under M, Poincare, weunt'into power to- day. Senator Desclfanel, who was pres- ident of France for a few months in 1920, resigned on account of illhealth, has filed a demand in the Senate for an interpella- tion on the forzign policy of M. Poincare. In his lett>r o! notification to the Pre- mier, M. Deschanel suggests that an ex- change of views is indispensable, in the present circumstances, Senator Deschan- el’s speech on his interpellation will be his first since his resignation from the Tresidency in September 1920. An- nouncing the recovery of his health, he was elected to the Senate a year ag:, but his activities in that body have been confined to occasional brief remarks from his seat. London, Jan. 16th—A Reuter from Madras dated Jany. 13th, 'des- cribing the scenes on the arrival of the Prince of Wales, somewhat discounts the highly coloured reports of despatches pubiished in this couniry and America. The Reuter correspondent says thePrince was welcomed by large crowds and the streets along which he drove to Govern- ment House were lined with natives, despite the usual proclamation of Har- tal, and that only slight disturbances in one quarter of the city were reported. The report also says the Prince was wel- comed with much enthusiasm by both men and women students of the univer- sity of Madras at the Senate House. Dublin, Jan. 16th. The governmental powers for I[reland, as vested in the Bri- tish authorities at Dublin Castle, were turned over to the provisional Govt. of Ireland, as constituted last Saturday un- der the Anglo-Irish treaty. The trans- fer was made by Viscount Fitzalan, the Lord Lieut. in the Privy council cham- ber. l.ondon, Jan. 16th--The political situa- tion, especially the question as to when the Government is going to call a gener- al election, has again been brought into prominence through the return from France of Mr. Lloyd George and the removal from the foreground of the Irish situation., There is a fairly gener- al opinion among the political writers in this morning’s newspapers, that the election which recently was fore-shadow- ed for February, would nov oceur then, and probably would not be held before May at the earliest. It is said that Mr. Lioyd George discussed the matter in- formally with some n1 his colleagues last evening, when he became convinced that an early election was undesirable. Among the reasons supposed to have brought about this decision are the strongest opposition of the Unionists te such a step and collapse of the Cannes conference from which Mr. Lloyd George brings nothing to offer the electorate ex- cept the decision to call 2n international economic conference at Genoa. Honolulu, Jan. 16th. —A five mile pro- cession, winding its colourful way through palm fringed roads, concluded the last rites in the funeral for Jonah Kalanian Aole, whose death on January Tth, ended the old Hawaiian line of Mon- archs, Os these, Kalanian Aole, known td the naiives as Piince Kuhio was the last Titular descencan:. The procession was led by a marcher carrying a Chris- tian cross while by his side marched one who carried an emblem of the ancient regime, London, Jan. 17th. —Sugar in stock on the l4th inst.. was 42000 tors. [4st year 214,000 tens. {.ondon, Jan. 15th.—Sir John Kirk, . G.M. G., who was chief officer on the government expedition of the late Dr. David Livingsione to Africa in 1853, died today at the age of nincty years.