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entertained or the matter proposed be approved.”’ The Chairman continuing,—l do not see 1n what particular manner the Hon- orable Member’s objection is sustained by the par. I therefore would like to hear from him in what way it does. (To be continued.) OFFICIAL NEW». 19 July 1921. Upon the arrival of Judge Malmin in St. [homas, he was handed the follow- ing radiogram from the President of the United States: ““‘Lucius Malmin you are hereby noti- fied to ilgnore my letrter instructing you to resume luty on tie bench of the Vir- gin Islands until further advices. , WARREN G. HARDING.” EDITORIAL. Messrs. Albert and Alano Summersiii, natives of St. Croix, sons of the late James Summersill who was Moravian minister here, the former ifrom the Phil- ippines and the latter from Porto Rico are now at home on a visit. Mr. Albart Sammersill has been absen from this island 30 years, 19 of which have been spent in the Philippine Islands where he has at one time acted as judge and now riiHs a posirion as Government Attorney. Mr. Alano Summersill is connected with nercantile business in our neighboring island, and both gentlemen are types of the natives this island feels proud to welcome and it is hoped that their stav among us will be .made very agree- able. LOCAL. I'ne Creole has not :yet arrived irom St. T'nomas and no news is to hand cou- cerning ner. TELEGR1M». . ST. CROIX STATION. Tokio, July 15th.— Japans answer to Mr. Hardings proposal for a conference on limitation oi armamenis which has been forwarded to Washington while ac- cepting the suggestion for an armament conference says the Jiji Shimpo today makes reservations concerning general far eastern concerns until more has been learned as to the scope and znature of the questions to be considered. Washington, July 15th.—With the house starting to consider details of tariff rates today ways and means com- mittee members predicted the bill would remain unchanged as to rates on lumber from Canada. When the bili gives the President power to impose dutizs equal B LU BEULINY A ¥YIDN | to the Canadian duties if he sees fit it- | dications are he wonld never exercise - the authority becaase of the wide spread ' hostility to lumber duties espacially a- mong farmers. L.ondon, July 156th. —~Canada’s share of | the reparations which §Germany is to pay ' the British Emp:¢ has been fixed by | the prime minister’s conference at £6O. | 000,000. ! London, July 15th.--The resignation i of right Hon. Christopher Addison min- | ister without portfolio, in the coali- ! tion government, .ind formerly min- J ister of health, was announced in the House of Comm»ons last night, The os- ' tensible reason for this resignation, | the Evening Standard says, was the ’ throwing over by the government of the f housing scheme initiated by Dr. Addison | while he was minister of health. } Athens, July 16th.—Greek troops have | occupied the city of Kataia, an important | point on the southern branch of the . Bagdad railway, about seveniy-five miies | south-east of Brussa, it was declared in | a private despateh received here last ! night from Smyrna, advices received i from Asia Minor, where the Greeks are | conducting a general offensive against i the Turkish Nationalists indicted yester: day that the Turks were wvouring tartar | and Kurd reinforcements into the Ku ! taia area, and it was indieated that a ‘ severe battle might take pla:e. London, July 16th.—Viscount North | cliffe’s tour on which he wiil start fo- ' morrow, going first to the United States, | says an announcement by the London | ““Times’ 1s to be extended to include | Canada, Honcl lu, the Fiji Isiands, New ' Zealand, Australia, the . hilippines, Jap- | an, China, Koiea, the Straits Settle- | ments, Burma, and India. His time will ' be devoied mainly to studying the Pa- ! cific problems. . London, Juiy 15th.—Tottenham Hr ¢- . spurs, the English football cup winners, ' made a profit in the 1920-21 season of | 16,500 pounds, wnich is believed to be a ' racord. Since the eompany 'vas formed, | the total profit has been 47,312 pouuds. i Leipsic, July 16th. -Lieut. Dittmar . and Lieut. Boldt, charged with murder . in the first degree tor firing on li e-boats | afver the Canadian Hospital-ship ‘‘Lan- . dovery Castle’” had been iolpedoed in - the Summer of 1918, were each sentenc- . ed today to four years imprisonment, ‘ The sentence did not however carry hard | labour with it, as demanded by the pub- , lic prosecutor. Great Britain had only ' demanded the trial of Commander Pat- | zig of the submarine which torpedoed . the "‘Landovery Castle’”’, who fled the . country. The German public prosecutor . however, after an examination of the ev- .~ idence, ordered that Dittmar and Boldt | be placed on trial. i Berlin, July 17th. 20,000,006 persons ~are on the verge of starvatior in drought stricken sections of Russia. subsisting on moss, grass and the bark of trees, ac- cording to the Vossische Zeitung. which quotes information from a reliable source., Refugees are reported to be pouring into Moscow and Petrograd by thousards and to be fleeing hopelessly in every direc- tion. The parched earth is opening up in great crevices and wells and rivers are drying up. Foliage is asserted to have withered on the trees, anda num- ber of villages are reported on fire. Al cattle in the stricken districts have been slaughtered to provide food. but it is believed impossible to avert a catas. trophe, unless food is received from out- side sources,. . Tokio, July 17th.— .fapan today seems an Empire divided on the area: issues created by the summons of President Harding to a conference on ,disarmament and Far Eastern problems. On one side, largely in the ranks of the Bureau- crats, there is fear that the proposed conference will be dominated by the Anglo-Saxons, and may result in strang- ling Japan’s political and economic de- velopment in Asia. On the other side is a powertul group, which demands that Japan enter the deliherations, feariessly, submitting her wants resolutely, c-m- --bating for them with confidence, ard not ruin the cause of Japan. Both camps agree that Japan is facing a crisis, oc- quiring tact and largeness of visior. Many members of the Privy Couneil, according to the well informed Chu- gal Shogyo Shimpo, are pessimistie about the conference. They contend tbat the jroposal to diseuss prob lems and policies of the Far East indi- cates cooperation between the Unpit- ed States and Great Britain, in an attempt to setile iterpational ques- tions favourably for them, and an in- dication of which was tu be seen in the attitude of the English towards the An- glo-Jpanese alliance. The invitation to China to join in the conference, it is further ur ed, is additional evidence in support of the theory of a secret pur- pose on the part of the Anglo-Saxor na- tions in calling the conference. They urge that China, doubtless, will strive, with the support of Great Britain and the United States, for a settlement ol questions in her favour, resulting 1n injury to Japanese interests in China T'he councillors are quoted as saying, Japan should make participation con- ditional on the =ettlement of all ques- tions between Japan and the United States, opening the economic dcor of all territories in the Pacific to Orien- tals’’. London, July 17tii.—According to a report received in Riga from Moscow says a despatch to the Exchange Teie- graph, the army of General Makno, the Anti-Bolshevik leader in the Ukraine, has been hopelessiy beaien. [l'he des- patch adds thait a nonmber of Lhe leaders in the Makno movement surrendered.