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RII P News received here yesterday announ- cing the Death of The Most Revd. Mgr. P. Schelfhaut, C.S.S.R Bishop of Roscau, and Bishop of this Diocese. ’ May his Soul rest in peace. ROMAN CATHOLIC. 5-24-21. OCAL. The circus Company gave iis last show last night and immediately prepared for the move to Frederiksted where they will play tonight. Crenle saiied for St. Thomas at 6 p. m. yesterday taking the mail for St. Tho- mas, Porto Rico and the States. Patrons of the movies are remin lad of * the show this evening. See ad. in this llssue. iELEGR 1« MS. - ST. CROIX STATION. New York, May 16th.—The emer- gency tariff bill having been referred to the conference committee, it is now but a question of date when it will be put into effect for a period of six months. Many in the trade are inclined to the belief that the con‘erence committee will reportit back promptiy- with little if any ehange, those, if made being the anti-dumping and foreign valua- tion clauses, on which alone is there any cleavage between the House and . Senate. It appeared to be eneral opin- - ion cmong sugar people that the new tariff will be in effect the end of this week. Much interest has been aroused by rumours that the opposition of'very corsiderable number of Cuban planters to the functioning of the committee is takink a form that may result in official action. ‘There is said to be on fout in - the island a movement to this end. All by influential people that is viewed sym- pathetically .in high official quarters. One report is that if a certain number of > 8. LBt A & Vi CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE B.OOC. THIS EVENING 8.00 6 REELS 6 REEL> Continuation of the Great Serial é€ e 9 Lass of Lumberland ADMISSION Reserved Saas . goL 00 L o Gl ] e Giene al Kntkance, ... ..... iRye . - | (Irhlil(h'en' 2()7:,-md 10c. /A i signatures of planters. who are opposed to a continuance of the committee, can be secured to a petition for its dissslu- tion, it is not unlikely to induce Presi- Menocal to dissolve it. Paris, May 19th.--The declarations i made regarding Poland and Cilesia by ‘ Mr. Lloyd George yesterday, caused | considerable irritation to French news- i papers. There was little comment on . the Premier’s words this morning, {but . what there was seemed severe, ‘‘Perti- ¢ pax,’’ the political editor of the “‘Echo ' de Par’s,” regarding the statemeni of | Me lLiogd George. ‘'‘Please give us even less, if possible, than you did in | the last speech before the "House of ; Commons. The affair is too grave, ' henceforth, to be treated as politics. . There is no getting away from one fact, - the Entente cordigle is at stake’”, Paris, May 19th. France insis's upon ' ~the execution of the Versailles [reaty, " in drawing the frontier line between Germany and Poand in Upper Silesia. . M. Briand declared last night, upon re- ceiving newspapar coriespondents. He reiterated statements he made to news- | bvaper men last Saturday, when answer- . ing the addvess of Mr. Lloyd George be- | fore the Hovse of Commons on Friday, | he declared that invasion of Silesia by - German troops would not be tolerated | by the Frenen. M. Briand said -he did . not see the disirability of meeting My, . Lloyd George before all the documents . relating to the Selesian plebiscite had been received from the inter allied com- . mussion at Oppeln. "'l too want to see | - the Treaty ecarried out.” He said to ~ the correspondents of the London Daily | Mail. <But thewe is nothing in the . ireaty whieb stipulates that all the rich . ~ mining districts in Silesia must go (o . the Germans, while the Poles wijll get | what is left. Ido not wish to enter ipn- | to any controversy with Mr. Lloyd | George, and Istand by whatI said to you correspondents last Saturday.’’ - When the Chamber of Deputies recon- . vened today, after a r:cess of three . weeks, the Briand Cabinet was ex- ' pected to be the centre of the concerted attack. London, May 19th.—Newspapers of this city ,showed greater unaminity in endorsing’ Mr. Lloyd-George’s declara- tion of the British attitude towards Poland and Silesia made yesterday than they did his almost sensationai statement before the House of Commons last Fri- day. There were in some instances reference to the judiciousness of reiter- ating Great Britain’s view-point at this moment regarding2 goint already made sufficiently clear. The "*‘Morning Post”’ was alone in dissenting from the Pre- mier’s declarations, and in editorial bearing the caption “‘Smashing the Entente’’, the newspaper maintained jts antagonism against Mr. Lloyd George’s stand, which it declared to be “‘Fantas- tic and Absurd”’. The manner in which the Premier’s statement of iast Friday was received by the French Press was generally criticized, the ""Telegraph’’ repudiating accusations that Mr. Lloyd George expressed distrust of France, or hinted at the Anglo-French estr: nge- ment. The newspapers called such im. plications by French journalists "“Very Foolish’’, and declared the British would suppoyt Mr. Lloyd George in Insisting that settiement of the Silesian ques- tion must be along the lines laid down by the Treaty of Versailles. While expressing the opinion that yester- day statement by the Preuier was rather gratitous and superfluous the “"Daily News” repeated its recent ap- proval of the Premier’s views and re. buked the French newspapers which dis.- cussed the relations between Great Rrit- ain and France in terms admirably eal- culated to create rather thun avert a rift between the two countries. Mr. floyd George talked with such obviously 2ood sense that we hope French opinion wijl coneur with it and thatin the Chamber friendshivp and good feeling towards Great Britain and loyalty towards the observance of the treaty, will rise above petty controversy declared the ‘'Chron- iele’’. It is difficult however to see how a settlement can be. reached unless » grea'er sense of responsibility is shown by the French Press. The' “'Exnress”’ rega~ded yesterday’s statement as ‘‘time.- ly’’ and ‘‘justified’’, and said it was ne. cessary for both nations Zand for the causes, of which they were the trustees, that the words of Mr Lloyd George should be heeded. Constantinople, May 19th.-Alara over the safely of Constantinople is appar- ently felt by Allied officials here. Oper- ation by bandits are assuming serious provortions, particularly in Thrace. large numbers of Bolshevik are arriving and the United States Embassy is under guard of armed sailors. Brigadier Gen- eral . Harrington, Commander of the Allied forces here, has gone to London to lay the military situation before the British authorities. The country s threatened with famine as the fields are untilled, the people being terrorized and afraid to leave their villages.