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75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTEL. V.l. U. 8 A., WEDNESDAY -iSTH SEPTEMBER 1920 - THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and published daily {Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. .Johansen at the Avis Office. : TERMS --50 cents monthly an advance. 2 cents per single copy. Hutered us second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Gfice at Christian- xtad- S 5 CroidoV . I ofthe U. S. 4., un- der the JAct of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of gemeral interest, and 1s accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor canrot be responsible for the views ofhis correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STALION. Rome. Sept. 9rh.- The Kpoea esu- mates that the dead in the ecarthgquake exceeds 500 and the homeless more than 30,000. London, Sept. 9th.—The {Tnited States armoured cruiser Pittsburg, Rear Ad- miral Huse in cominand, is hard aground on the rocks off Libau in the Baltie Sea, according to an intercepted wirelesss message. The cruiser is repor ed to- be in a dangerous position., New York, Sept 9th. -- The new SIOO,- 000,000 twenty-five year eight per cent French Govt. loan, was-oversubscribed and subseriptim books were closed in an hodar, M-assrs. J. P. ™Morgan sand Cou., syndicate managers, announced. The books were formally opened at 10 o’ciock and clesed at 11 o’clock. Belfast, Sept. 9th.—Raids for arms by Sinn ‘Feiners have supplanted burnings in various parts of the country. Last night raiders entered the home -of Sir Lamber Ormsby, former President of the Koyal Cellege of Surgeons in Ire- land and held up his daughters at the point of revolvers and secured two guns, Londonderry, Ireland, Sept. 9th.—-The Irish constabulary soon will be equipped with up to date service rifles and revol- vers quantitias of whicn have arrived here in Bezlfast and-Dublin. London, Sept. 10th.—Prince George, the® King’s youngest son, was on Mon- day night a prisoner of Sinn’ Feiners for several hours, it has become known. Balmoral Castle where the Royal Family is now in residence was in an uproar. The kidnapping is still a mystery as to details. Tn-ee®masked men captured the Prince and a manservant returning from fishing about 9.30 o’clock and hurried’ them to an empty coitage #n.the out- - skirts of Balmoral woods- where they wer2 iocked up. Sevoeral hours later when the castle realized the Prince was missing the King and Queen organized a search party. Castle servants aroused’, the Roya! Guards a-d London detectives and the entive neignbourhood was.~thor- oughly searched, the t o prisoners being ‘finally discovered ini darkness in the cot- “tage ‘"This is but the beginning .of the end if MacSweeney dies was scraw- led on a paper leit by the kidnappers wno Had disappearsd without attempring: to harm the Prince. The Royal Family is much disturbed fearing kidnappiog work by Irisn sympathizers among the servants at the Castle and that they might be able to ke»p the threat if Mac Sweeny should die. - .London, Sept. 10ch. —Mr. MacSweeny - passed a bad night suffering great pdins | in his arms legs and back and complains of a feeling of dizziness and numbness but i 3 still conscious. Rome, S2pt. 10th. —~Much importance is placed in the meoting of Premiers Giolitzi and Millerand at Aix- Les Bains france, and newshapers here deciare that it will perhaps be more important ‘than that at %Lucerne where. Signor Giolitti met M:. iloyd George. Italian , and Krench public‘; opinion in the press of both countries ::as shown suseepti- bility lately relatiye 1o the attitade of the respective courtiies and it 18 de- clared that it is h.zhly desirable that that sentament shou! i be dissipated. Warsaw. Sept. .~13th.--The * Pslish armies on the Nor'h eastérn front de- ivered a series of successful attacks on the Russians yesterday and took 3,300- prisoners 4 guns and some armoured trains. : ~ London, Sept. 10rh. —Admission -was made this morning .by the °‘‘Herzald” that it has 7,500 pounds Bolshaviki gold. The paper said that ihie money is being held pending decision by the sharehol- ders as to whether it should be used. The opinion of readers as to the acceptance of the money is asked by the newspa: per which publishgxi its admission on its first page under glaring“heéadlines. Last month chaiges that the Russian Soviet Govt. was schsidizing newspa- pers in other countries for th&purposes of carrying on propaganda was pub- lished here and th: "‘Jarald’”’was named as one. The newspaper .cfars tothe Soviet funds as a ‘“‘magnificent de- monstration of real working class soli- - \;"‘ v\ | //';: Prhaae 2 . ' / ; /”’;-, ‘\‘ S i~f | %_ L i\ : ; ( al ~ Ve Eh?§ ‘% | :’V @ \‘\._.,!/ / W A":y\ (\‘ PP WL N 7 ; { % wl, ~-darity and of what Russians mean by interpationalism’’. Te scceps it will be to. complete a notable episode in in- ternational - socialism. The ' inereased cost of produection and the political shy- ness of advertisers make it necessary for ustc double the price of this paper at once if the money is not accented. . Romg, Sept’ 10th. A voleanic erater . has suddenly opened at the top of Pizzo | Duleello, a “mountain 5,745 feet bhigh | about nine miles north of Spezia. Itis located on- what appears to be the north- . west' corner of the distriet” shakeni by . » Tuesday's earthquake. A telegram from . Spezia states the crater is .emitfing . smoke and sulphuric fumes and sclen- { tists there attribute the outbreak to the' . earthquake, the shock whjch devastated { seores of little "towns and villages north . of Florence seems to have followed the - * lines of the mountains. . f Shoreham, ‘Sussex™-Sept. 10th, -=THe" | weird looking tower shins designed in | 1918 as surprises for the Germans cost- I ing'1,250,000 pounds each will be launeh- . ed shortly. They are concrete.hulls six- -tyfoot stee] towers equipped with.search- . -light_and other mysterious apparatus. | The hulls are to rest on the sea bed while ' ihve towers arc abeve. The shins weve . to be for coast defence. ; Warsaw, Sept.. 10th--The Polish troops - have advanced ‘ther lines, occupying ~ Kuznica, just to the south of Grodno, . and five other towns. A Bolshevik coun- ter-attack was repulsed, "and the Poles ~again advanted, dispersing seven Soviet infantry regiments. The communique - from Polisk headquarters in which these - operations were reported, says there was mno ehange in the situation in the Suwalki . -sector. - A note has been received by the Polish Foreign Cffice from Lithuania. re- - fusing to withdraw the Lithuanian fer- * ces tothe Foch line, but asking that a -conference be héld in Mariamvol, situa- ~.ted on the demarkation line, At the close of Thursday night conference of the Council of Ministers theseeretary of Foreign Minister Sapieha announced that the Poles had replied demanding the withdrawal of the Lithuanlans without further discussion. Providing the with- « drawal should be effected, the Secretury said a conferenee weould be held with the Lithuanians concerning boundaries, but not otherwise. The Lithuanians, be add ed, hust aiso guarantee nd to be friend- . ly with Germanv and Soviet Russia .at * the éxpense of Paoland. The Council of - Ministers also eonsideréd the Ukrainian questionon Thursday, bat no decison was. reached. ik iy