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DIED - last evering at her residence No. 17 King’s Street, Mrs. EMMY SCHEEL, widow of the,late Planter V. Scheel. The funeral 1o which friends and acquaintan- ces are invited willtake ~lace this after- noon at 4.30 ' ' , LOCAL. A good audience witpessed the exhibi- tion of the film ‘'‘Her Purchase Price’’ at the theatre last evening which proved indeed a very beautiful picture and kept the audience spell bound = throughout. Ne have been asked by Mr. Svendsen to mention that owing to the non-arrival of the film ‘‘The Great Radium Mystery”’ from St. Thomas he was unable to con- tinue same this week but hopes to do so both Monday and Thursday nights next week. ‘ The s. 8. "‘Korona’’ for New York via St. Thomas is due at Frederiksted at7 o’clock on Sund2y morning.. Mails close at 4.30 tomorrow. : TELEGRAM . , ST. CROIX STATION. Londou, Dee. 2nd.—Reports that Lord Desborougn had died suddenly last even- ing at Birmingham which were publish- ed here this morning by the [London Times proved to be inerrrect He is in the best of health at nis home at Taplow Court, and has not visited Birmingham., Aviona Albania, Dec. 6th.—An earth- guake occurred in the Tepeleni district to the southwest of this ecity on Sunday rendering fifteen thousand people home- Jess. : : New York, Dee. 3rd —On the surface of the raw suvar market yesterday had tke appearance of baving taken on -a steadier undertone but at the close the situation rem=2ined unchanged from the conditions prevaiiing all the week. Edinburgh, Dec. 6th. In the Scottish prohibition vote, which has been in pro- gress for some time, Edinburgh on Sat- urday registered its vote on the issue and the drys were co.apietely defeated in every oune of the 23 wards of the city. : Loddon, Dee. 6th. Cables from South Africa say that General Smuts has open- ed the election ceampaign there with a fighting speecii at Pretoria in which he defines the issue as onebetween secession and equality of national status within the Kmpire. Lo don, Dee. 6th— Ex-King Constan- tine will emnbark at Brindisi on a mer- chant ship for Athens, probably on. Fri- day or Saturday. This decision was definitely reached today. Constantinople, Dec 7ih.—As soon as the result of the plebiscite in Greece which resulted in favour of the former King Constantine became known here, et elX AN 4§ | the Greek Parriarch called the Holy Sy- ' nod and the lay-council into extraordinary . sassion and it was decided to despatch an | energetic appeal to Constantine exhort- - ing hin toabandon his claim to the Gieek ' throne in favour of Prince George. point- ' ing out that his refurn to (Greece not on- ' .ly would -endanger - the. position of . Greece but *wouldjeovardize the future ' of Hellenism” The excitement among ' some of the Greeks reached such a | pitch that there was talk of the ‘possi- ' bilityof the isolation of Greece and the | establishment of an independent Byzan- ‘ tium including Thrace Smyrna and . Macedonia. - ; ' | Geneva, Dee. Tth.—Sir George Foster | stirred the Assembly of the League of - Nations this mworning by an eloquent ap- . peal for action against typhus in Poland and the. Near East in general. Canada \ and Siam. Sir Genrge remarked, were | the only countries that had responded with | eash contributions to’ the ecall of the ~council for aid. ‘‘Let it ot be said that | the floodgates ofsympathy are closed”’, | Sir Jeorge. evied:. “‘Let it not be: said | " that the semsibility of the world has been | duiled to such imperitive ols’’. Sir | George’s reminder to the Assembly that ' ‘much had been promised in aid of the anti-typhus campaign, bhut thai iittle had been paid except by Siam and Cana- da, produced a deciced reaction among the delegates. Representatives of- na- | tions in all corners of the world sucdeeded | one another at the speaker’s stand to | give assurance of their Governments ' 1n the work. A member of the Indian | delegation, the Princs of Nawanager, ! added to Sir George’s =appeal by giving . a.vivid description of the ravages of | typhus in the east. He declared the | world was facing in this a greater emer- ' gency than the situation in Armenia. { London, Dec. 6th.—Rumours of the | engagement of the Prince of Wales to | Princess Margaret of Denmark, cousin »f ! King Thristian, were circylated here to- ' day in a despateh from Copenhagen. | They.were promptly denied by members ’ of the Prince’s household. The Princess | was born in September 1895 and is a Ro- | man Catholic. ’ London, Dec. Tth.—Replying to an ad- I dress of welcome tendered to him today by the city of London upon the termina- tion of his tour of the empire, the Prince of Wales said. -'‘The British people were never more firmly united in devotion to the empire and its head, the King, than they are today. It has been no merit of | mine, but merely my gond fortune to en- ahle that devotion once more to show its strength. But I value none the less the . generous congratulations offered me to- ~ day on such small service as mystour Lias | rendered to thes greal Eritish comrade- | ship of which this great city is the = hearp=T : : ' _ London, Dee. 7th. —Sir Hamar Green- - wood declared e nphatically amidst cheers in the House of Commons today that he was coviniced there .can be no stccessful advocacy of a truce in Ireland until the extreme leadérs of the Irish Republie either surrender and deliver up their arms, =or ‘are arrested, Sir Hamar’s statement waswin response toa query by Mr. Delvin, the Irish Nationalist, as to whether he thought the arrest of the Dub- lin Councillors yesterday was conductive to “the spirit of peace. when the Dublin corporation was about to discuss a truce. Sir Hamar previously informed the House that the councillors arrested were members of the Irish Republican Party and several of them have been continu- ously on the run for scme time. One of them had spent the previous night in a hayshed, Sir George declared, and 1 shotgun was found in theoffice of anoth- er. Mr.. Arthur Henderson, of the La- bour Commission which recently investi- gated: labour conditions in Ireland, and Mr. William Adamson, Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, bad an in- terview with Mr. Lioyd George tonight andreported to him the result of the com- mission’s enquiries in Ireland 2nd the state of publie feeling in Ireland concern- inz a possible truce. Mr. Henderson had previously met the Parliamentary Labour Party aud explained tow im- pressed the Commission had been by the wiaespread desire for a truee and a con- terence to negotiate a settlement. Care- ful watch is being kept upon aciivities by extremists to affect the army’s loyat- ty, it was declared by Sir Archibald Wil- liamson in the House today. Sir Archi- bald replied to a question asking wheth- er he was aware of the insidu- ous attempts that are being made by -members of the Republican and Revolutionary organziations in this country to the loyalty of the army. “l am aware of these attempts’’, he said,”” and the activities of extremists to undermine the loyalty of the army are being carefully watched by the military authorities and the ' neces- sary steps are being taken, but it would not be in the public interest to give detalils. New York, Dec. Tth -~Raw sugar was quiet at 45 cents for Cuba’s, cost and freight, equal to 576 for centrifugals. Refined sugar stood at $8.75 to $9.00 for fin: granulated. Futures opened lower under selling by commission houses but trade inierests were about unchanged. London, Dec. Bth. —The Government is considering whether ,it will request the Udited States Government in the interest » of Anglo-American friendship to tak: official notice of the anti-British activi- ties in the United States of Prof. de Va- lera, '‘President of the Irish Republic’’, according to a statement made today by Mr. Andrew Bonar Law in the House of Commous in response to qaestions. - Paris, Dee. Bth.—The Greek Govern- ment has addressed a note to ex-King Constantine, asking thet” he abdicate immediately in favour of the Crown