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MAILS CLOSE per S. 5. Guiana, on Sunday 29th instant, at 2 o’clock p. m., for New York, N. Y., . Europe éle. .. The St. Thomas and Porto Rico mails will, as usual, be closed at 3 p. m. Stamps, registration, money orders, etc. should be obtained. not later than 5 p m. on Saturday 28th. The s. s. '‘Georgiana Weems’’' arrived here this morning from Frederiksted with 60 rons of cargo. The 8. S Guiana for New York is due at Frederiksted on Sunday morning, leaving at midnight. The 8. 9. Parima is expected to leave New York on Thursday September 9th. We have been requested to mention that in future the Christiansted Navy Band wili render its concert on the wharf on Thursday evenings instead of Friday evenings as heretofore. TELEGRAMS. ST. CRPDIX STATION. London, -August 2%d. -Much space is duvoied by all ihe giewspapers inis morning to the question #t a coal miners’ strike which will be tlotted upon this week beginning tomorrbw. Articles on the subject which ar% printed under huge headlines, reflect®the belief that an overwhelming majority of the miners will be in favour of gtriking. The (;ovt. appears determined not to grant the demands for a wage advance cf two shillings per shift and a reduction of the price of coal to the public amount- ing to about fourteen shillings per ton. Unless a compromise is reached the strike may become ettective in a month. - Dublin Aug. 23rd:—The Executive of the Irish Labour Party in an appeal to British Labour to stop '‘the war with Ireland’’ as they did with Raussia and holding them responsiblc if it continues says: The Military Governors whom you have placed over us calculate the death of the Lord Mayor of Cork will lead to an uprising which cap be suf- pressed only by wholesale slaughter”, The appeal aiso declares that Mr. Short, the Home Secretary, will be held per- sonally responsibleif the death of the Lord Mayor ensues. London, Aug. 23rd.—The number of British troops in Ireland is enormous and is increasing daily, said a high military officer, who has just returned from there. Practically all the British home garrisons arc there including 11 infantry brigades forming the command of four Maior Generals and the neces- ST ROX A VLIS sary cavalry, artillery and engineers. The Staff of the Aldershot Firs® Division was sent across during the past week. They are still building blockhouses in Ireiand and thousands of miles of barbed wire have been strung throughout the island for defence. No sentry posts or guard houses are complete without barb ed wire. San Juan, P. R.. Aug. 23rd.—""Alfonsu XIII”sailed 5.30 p. m. for Norfolk, Vir- ginia. : Jamaicz, Aug. 23rd.—The* following message as published quote: ‘'Prince of Wales much distressed to hear of out- break of serious epidemic in Jamaica. He wishes to assure the colony at once of his warm sympathy and trusts that the spread of the disease may be rapidly arrested. Signed Grigg. unquote, The local medical authorities have re- ceived a cablegram from New York - yesterday stating that the med:cal ex- perts at that city had diagnosed a case of eruptive fever discovered on a steam- er from Jamaica as vaccina or crew POX. Jamaica medical profession are gen- erally agreed that the disease is rall- ed varaloid varicella also called kaffir cow pox. Itis nota dangerous malady but it is highly infactious. There are fully 30 cases in Kingston and lower St. Andrew.”’ : 3 London, Aug. 23rd. —The wife of the l Lord Mayor of Cerk Mrs. McSweeney visited her husband In Brixton prison where he is under sentene of two years’ imprisonment on Saturday. In the course of an interview later she said the Lord Mayor had written a letter to Mr. Shortt,ithe Home Secretary, Friday night in which he declared the full re- sponsibility for his death wouid rest on . the shoulders of the Government and the Govern aent would have to bear the consequences. ‘‘He vrrote’”’, added Mrs, Sweeney, ‘‘That it would tell badly among civilized nations, that the English Government had oz})its charge, the death | of asecond Lord Mayor of Cork in six l months, and that the statements he had made at his court martial, that befcre a ] month he would be out of prison dead or | alive, still held gend He wrote the let- ‘ ter with great difficuicy and nearly faint- ed twice while writing’’. Replying to the request of the Lord Mayor’s sister ~ for an interview, the Home Secretary wrote saying, '‘Ap interview would serve no good purpose. It is the final decision ! of His Majesty’s Government. Mr. Mc Qweeney will not be rleleased because he refuses to take food. Owing to the condi- tion of his health Mr. MceSweeney cannot be fed forcibly. For any consequences which may ensue from his refusal to take food he alone i 8 responsible’’. Brussels, Aug. 22nd.—A semi-official telegram from Dusseldor: says that an insurgent movement already emanaling in the German Communist Party has resulted ip the proclamation of a Soviet Republic at Velbert, Rhenish Prussia. The despateh stated that Communists seized the Town's Hall, extorted money from the richer inhabitants and forced the local branch of the Reich to hand over a million marks. Notices were posted inviting workers at Essen and Remscheid to join them. Constantinorle, Aug. 19th.—(Delayed). Two Bolshevik Cavalry Regiments have passed over Southern Armenia into Turkish territory and lines up with the T'urkish nationalist followers of Mustapha Kemal Pasha at Dalazet, according to advices received here today. Paris, Aug. 22nd.—The French gar- rison at Adana, Asia Minor, which had been beseiged for two months, made a sally and according to the Foreign Office, has now virtually been relieved. ighteen United States relief workers were with the garrison. The FKoreign Office says that the garrison badly de- feated the besiegers and that the situ- ation no longer is critical, : Belfasr, Aug. 22nd.—Pclice Inspector Swansey, against whom a verdiet of wilful murder was given by a coroner’s jury, in connection with the assasina- tion of Mr. McCurtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead to-day. while proceeding (o his home from Church at Lisburn, !, which town he had been transferred \after the finding of the coroner’s jury. The assassing escaped. Belfast, Afig. 22nd.— A volice patarl was ambus:’zed on Saturday afternoon at Dundalk' One constable was shot dead and * /0 others were wounded. Belfast, Aug. 22nd.—Rioting is in progress at -Lisburn, as a result of the assassination today of Inspeetor Swan- sey. An attempt was made to wreck the shop -of a Sinn Fein leader with- in forty yards of the scene of the crime and only intervention by Ulster- volunteers prevented it. The crowd then attacked the residence of a Na- tionalist Republican, who fired from a window. His assailants retuined the fire and wounded him. Duablin, Aug. 22nd.—The homes of Arthur Griffith and other promirent Sinn teiners were ransacked on Friday night for private papers. Dublin, Aug. 22nd, —The physician of the Cork Jail, has recommended the re- lease of the men under arrest there, who are on hunger strike. It is reported here to be extremely probable that Mr. McSweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork, on hunger strike, is to be released. Should he be allowed to die in prison, Ireland is threatened with a general strike, unpre- cedented demonstrations and further extensions of the boycott. The plans for all these have been arranged. The questions of a general strike is in the hands of the Labour P rty. London, Aug. Zdth.—Members of the British Miners’ Federation began today to ballot ou the project of calling a strike to enforce their organizations’ demand