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the number of these men specified in :he Ordinance. ~ 2nd Appoirted Member [Noll] reply- ing to the lasc speaker said: The Ordin- ance does not specify the number of patrolmen. [t is left to the Gove ror to decide. Ist Member for Christiansted Country District | Stakemann] proposed thet the matter be s2nt to a commitiee to get more elucidations or. it. The Chairman put the member’s pro- pos | to the vote. 4 members vnted for; 1 against. The <hai'man remarked: Th: com- mittee will be appointed after recess. 2nd Appoiated Member (Noll) remnark- ed: Mr. Clairman. If this matier is to go to a co nmittee merely for the pur- pose of getting more elucidation: on 17, I think Government would be wiliiag to give elucidaiions today rather than have the bill go oer to another meetirg. The matter cap lest until after recess. The Chai man remarked: The com- mittee can e formed and meet curing the recess and approach Goverument immediately after. [To be continued]. December 26th. 1919 is to be ccnsider- ed a Red Le ter day in St Croix, when the Formidable Dauntless Cricket O ub of St. Thomas, will line up against th» In- vincible Cricket Ciub of St Croix, o1 the Holger Dancke Grounds. The Lamels ¢f the Invincib e, will be contested tor, and it is suppose 1 the Dauntless will teke 't away {rom ihem, beinz; 82 FORMID - BLE. In order to cover the expenses incur- red we have to make 1 charge of b and 10 e. entrance o the grounds. Suberib- ers tc the list in circulation will b ad- mitted free of Charge Badges will be sold at the virinus gates, which MUST be worn in a conspicuous place, anc any- one found w chour, will be asked to leave the grounds. Native B ass Band In Attendance. Ngmes of slayers Names of nlayers Dauntless C. C. invineible C. C. St. Thomas St Croix A. Llovd : A. Danielsen H. Williams C. Thompson E. Me. Eean S. Matain E. David H. Scott J. Jeppe C. Derricks E. De. Giaph C Miller W. Franc:s J Marsaull V. Birch I, Philipus E. Nicholus i.. Beek 7" H. Freder.ks A. Adams Y. Freder ks G. Nugent Extras Extras H. Host J. Watley .. Hendricks J. Augustus. Christiansied St. Croix Dez. 18th 1919 INVINCIBLEC. C. C. DERRICKS, A. DANIELEEN, . Sec. - Captawn, ST &£ RO lILE &NV 1 ! The Virginia had not arrived in Fred- . er'ksted up to 8.30 this morning when . inquiry was made. | ee ! The S. S. Manoa sailed from Frederik- } sted for St. Kittss at midnight last night. : The Editor St. Croix Avis. | Christiansted. ! Dear Sir, i Would like to know if Chairman . and Road Officers are on strike. § Anyhow roads ar2 undoubtedly striding . hard for gravel and re-allotment. l loads are Holy full of holes from C. S. i ol 8 % ROAD HOLDER. U. S. NAVY PRESS NEWS. WASHINGTON: All general appro- pr ations for nineteen twenty one will be pr>pared in accordance with strictest ecoHnomy except those for the Post Office ard the Navy Departments. Greac re- du etions will be in the Army. WASHINGTON: Will Carlisle, bandit ard train robber, is once again. behind | ths walls of penitentiary. ‘lakes up l serving life sentence from which he es- | caped on November fifteenthi. bince his | capture a short time ago, Carisle has i been in the hospital recuperatizg !rom | bullet wourds in his chest waich the | sheriff inflicted in capuuring him. WASHINGION: The House Cominit- | teo today agreed to recomnend to Con- . gress the granting of temperary increas- | esin pay to enlisted men and officers. | Tpnability to agree on amount postpoued definite action. Proposcd increase rang- | es from twentv to thirty percent. HALIFAX: Liguor valved at eight thousand doilars, seized ¢n board the Wastern Unicn Cable Ship, Robert C, Ccwry, has been ordered confiscated. | Tle ship was relased on payment of four . hundred dollars fine. ; WASHINGTON: Mexico’s reply to ' th> last American note h: s been received . by the Government it was annou iced to- . day. Officials refused comment while they seem to study note, [t appears not | to have made a favorable inipression | says ""Evening Star’’. | WASHINGTON: Fifteen to twenty | million people in Central Surcpe face ! stzrvation says Hoover, recominending . de ivery of wheat and flour beld by grain | o poration to relieve situation. | | TELEGRAMS ' ST, CROIX STATION. | London, Nee. Ib6th.—The conferences | in Downing Street on international finan- ' ciz: porblems and the definite stalement | thet the paymant of inierest to Araerica | on loans to the allies had been pestponed | far three years ereated a better feeling on | - the Stock Exchange where quotations or | most of the securites improved. HFrencn « Bxchange also eased slightly, the mackes ' was less wild and the feeling in the ex- . change was more confident. The slumg in ' America was responsible for another | rise 1n the price of silver to 78} and . also assisted in an advance in the price . of gold to 111 and 8 per ounce at which . India and Spain absorbed the bulk of . the arrivals from t.e Transvaal. | Washington, December 16th.- -An unfa- ' vcurable report on the bill to repeal the . war-time prohibition law was ordered today by the House Agriculture Com- | mittee by a vote of 16 to 3. t New York, Dec. 16th.. A dozen large . passenger Liners, and scores of freight- | els several days overdue here, are being | held up by rough seas, high winds and . fog, according to wireless reports re- . ceived today, telling of reduced speed | made necessary by two storms which | have swept across the Atlantic in the last | fen days. 1 London, Dec. 16th.—Mr. Balfour speak- . ing at the annual meetitg of the Em- pire Parliamentary Assoeciatior, said that the great group of free British demo- | cracies had only existed for the purpose of fighting the recent war, it would noc . have existed in vain, but we must re- - member that moments of prodigious | strain were always loliowed by periods ' of reaction. We could not expect to be . free from this in our lmperial relations, The diflicul.y which statesmen of Eng- land znd the Dominions had experienced tor a gencration or more was still with ' us, of finding some organization ‘'which shall increase unity ot action without in- terfering with the absoluwe autonomy of . constituent elements of the great com- i munity of nations. We had no doubt | that at the Peace Conferences,our col. - leagues among the Allies sometimes . found a ceriain difficulty in dealing with | five nations as though they were on- | ly one, but they accepted without | question the siwuation, acted upon | it, and did thkcir best to help repre- | sentatives from ail over the Empire, ' when they desired to join in an action, ' Sir Donald McClean, Independent Liber- ' al leader, who followed Mr. Kal- | - four, said there was peace through- i out all parts of the Empire. Ip pe- . gard to the movement toward direbt ' action, the true way o meei that was to demonsirate that barliamentary aetion - is the only sound way. by which peopless can be governed. Mr. Adamson, i abour | Leader, said the} world is indebred to the British Empire for saving civilization and .. .would be indebted to it again for bujld- | Ing it up again. The speaker, Mr. Low- ther, who presided, mentioned the c¢on- ference over which he had presided. and . saidit marked a step towards the tedera- tion of the parilaments of ihe British .~ Empire, althcugh he believed that was a very long way off yet. Rerlin, Deec. IGth.-43 workmen and . women were Killed and more than 100 ' injured by an explosion at an ammunilion - devot near Withelmshaven today.,