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The. s s. ‘‘‘‘uiana’’ arrived at Fred: eriksted from New York via St. Thowas yvesterday afternoon. She brought ten bags of mail tor this town which was received and listributed in the evening. Passengers from New York:—Margreth Gorden, Elfrieda Evelyn, John Waleott. From St. Thomas:—Joseph A. Flynn, Hy:acinthe Flynn, Gaynell Golden. She sailed iater for the Islands taking the inliowing passengers: For St. Kitts:— Jenrv Dix, Mr. & Mrs. S. A. Burt, Mr. v, K. Armstrong, Miss Elizabeth Arm- stronz, Christian Williams, B rtram "Vil- son, Alex. Franecis, Mirian Wallyn. For Montserratt—lsaac James. The sloep ‘"Alice’”arrived here at roon vesterday from Porto Kizo for a shi)- ment of cattle. Sl ey s » Up to the time of goinz to press the sloop "*Mizpah’’ has not arrived TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION Buenos Aires, July 20th. —The official- ly heralded decisive action by which the Brazi'ian Government expects tc put an end io the Sao Paulo rebellion will find the rehelswell prepared, acceord- ing to uncensored despiatehes reach- ing Buaenis Aires fron near the se°n» of the struggie. With approxinately 2).000 well armed and munitioned men, the rebels are said to be awaiting with coafilence an attack by the Fedoral forees. Jt is asseried the rebels hold all tha strategic points in and abouat the eity of Sao Paulo and also have a-tillery placed on what are known as the eng- lish blutfs, whiech eommand the roads lealinz 10 the city Southa npton, July 20 h.—Asked for his views regardinz the KExperts Repara- tion Plan, Mr. Hughes, United States Secretary of State, upon his arrival here on Saturday said. ‘‘American senti- ment is very stronzly b hind the Dawes Repor: as it now stands and we be- lieva tha” the prompt executiion of that report is of the greatest consequence.’’ Mr Hazhes emphasizsd that his visit to wagland was uno.fizial and persoaal, R2zardiaz th2 Exp:rts R:port, how- ever, the Secreiary leclared "'we ara very muach interested in seeing it pul info exocution.”” **We hope it wiil be found possible to have that eff2cied at an early date,”” he continued. *‘Wa coHnsider it eff )rds a sound basis for the economic recupearation of Euaropa. Oitawa, July 28th—Recognition of Can- ada on the same footinZ as any other couniry by the Universal Postal Union, is announced in a message frym Mr. C)- lican, whois represeniing th>Post Master- General of Cinada at the Conference of the Union now in Progress at Stockholm Sweden. At the previous conference in Madrid in 1920- OpiyPolitically independ- £33 4 LolLxX a8 5 eat eoruntries were allowed to vote in the conference and Canada’s delegate attend: | ed on'v as represantinr an ovars2as domin | ion of the British & noir>. Oy thatoccasion | the dominions urzed that they be reeog- nized indzperden:ty and the recognition nas now boen granted to Cinala, Aus- | tralia to NewZ aland, India, South A rica | ard the Irish [FreeSrate : Halifax, N. S. July 21st -D :spatched by the United States Navy Deparument to the Labrador Coast for the parpise ot assisting the United Siates army avia- tors i1 the flicht arounl the worll, the United States eruiser ‘Milwaukee’’ in command of Captain Pinney, arrived in Halifax yesterday afternjon anl anchor- ed in the stream. The ‘'Milwaukee” came from New Por:i News, Virginia, and is scheduled to leave for Labrador tcday. Kingston Jamaica, Jily 21st- Seven United States submarines, accompanied by the supply ship "'Fulton’’, arrivadin Kingsion harbour vesterday trom Cuaris- tcbal, The flosilla will say four days to giva the men leave, returning to Caris- tobal oan Weldnesday. London, July 19ih,—With the arrival in this eouniry of 1,132 Americans and | 201 Canadian Lawyvers, the stage is now set for an international gathering sucn as never before has been known in the history of law. The visit of the Ameri- can Bar association to this City gains 1n significance rrom the fact that the Cana- dian Bar Association has join:d with the British Bar ana Law Society in act- ing as hosts to their Ameriean eolleagues To cement still further the brother- hood existinz among the legal men of thesa three great EEnglish sp~aking coun- tries, the visit will unoffizially be ex- tended and supplemented by {rips to Scotland, Iretand and Paris by some members of the American De:legation, as guests of the Scottish, Irish and Frenca Bars. Teheran, July 21st —Dove'op nents in the investigation into the kiiing of Rob- ert Umbrie, United States Vice-Consul, which seem to indicate tuav paris at least o f the Persian Government’s pro- teetive foress failed in their duty of de- fending his life when he and Mr. Sey- mour, ano her United S:iates citizen, ware attacked by a fanatical mob last Friday, have caused a xiety here and the diplomatic body is add essinz a seri- ous note to the Persian Governmeant, it was stated today. London, July 2lst —Mr. MacDonald this morning conferred for tyo hours with M. Herrio® of Francs, the Finince Minister Signor De Stefani of Iraly. M. Theunis of Belgium and Mr. Kellogg Ambassador of the United” S.ates, re- garding ways and means of obraining an azreement between the d:legates of the inter-Allied J)nference on the eaforece: meat of Ihe Expert Pian. Waile the plenary delegates disenssed the broad phases of the Dawes Plan, the commit- tee of experts continued their efforts to reach an azreement on the measures for bringing abhat the fiseal and econo- mic unity of Germany. lt is believed this wili be realizad by tonmght, execep for the question of railway contrul, which remains a stumbling block to the plans for the evacuation of the Ruhr. The French, it i 3 learned, went to dilute the German railway peisonnel with a large number of Freneh and B-l gian railwaymen and thus assure them selves that the ratlways will o move m less under Freaca suparvisi nineas2 of a strike of the Germian workors. or iln other emergencies. It this is done 1 ¢onjunetion with the Exverts Report, it might easily give rise to difficulues arnd conflicts the British contend. The French counterv-claim here is that if Germany adheres stricily to the princ- tle of the report, 1t will never be neeces- sary to invoke the extiacrdinary guar- antees which France feels her safery dernn ands tht she should exuet. London, Ju'y 22nd.—Sugar in stock on the 19 h inst was 101,000 tons. Last year 119,60.. Capetown S. A. July 21st— The Hert zow Government has released Manie Mar- itz, fcrmer voer Goeneral, a prominen! figure in the retelion of 1914, who on April 24th last was sentenced to im prisonment for three years. Martiz had been living in extle from the year of the rebellion until a short time before his trial at.d conviction an i+ was sentenced in conneciion with the uprising. He was a member of the defence foree, at the time he joined the rebels in 1914 and persuszded his subordinates to join the rebellion alon with Fim. In sentencing Maritz for his part in the rebellion ana his attemot to hand over to Germany the loyal members of the defence fo.ce, the judge tcok into account the former Boer General’s suffirings while 1n exile and senten. ed him 1o the comparatively brief term of three years in prison. London, July 21st—During the com- mittee stage of the Housirg Bill Ihe Government tonteht sustained their Yih defeat, the adverse vote b ing Ul (o 155. ‘lhe defeat however carries no political consequences, Regina, July 21st.—With 650 polls still to report from o1 the liquor plebiscite taken last Wednesday in Saskatchewan the majority against prohibition remains at 32,678 The figures are for prohibi- tion 78.608, against prohibition 106,286, for Government control 72.791, tor beer licenses 64,385, Chicago, July 21st.—-The fate of Na than Lecpoid, jr., and Richard Loeb, indicted for the Kidnapping and murder of 14 year old Robert Franks, was rest- ed today ‘‘in the mercy of ithe Court.” This resulted from a plea of guity made today in court by Clarence 3. Darrow, chiet counsel for the boys and affirmed by them after they had been duly warned of the ¢ . quonzes of this plea.