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THE Food “ommission of Saint Croix has fixed the following prices which are to prevail until further notice. Raw Sugar.... .....24 cents per pound. Sweot Milk . .... ...16 ' ‘* quarte The price of Milk to became effective on the 1s! prox. (Signed), THOMAS RAMSAY, Chairman. Christiansted, Saint Croix, the 22’ July 1920. : EDITORIAL. __The clergy of the “frican Methodist Episcepal Chureh, the Anglican Church, the Christian Mission, the Lu heran and Moravian denominatiors and the Seventh Day Adventists, are circulating lists se- curing the names of inhabitants in favor of prohibition. These lists are under cover of a joint petition addressed and to be forwarded to the (}()vernor_apl)(eal!rlg to his influence and assistance in vetoing the anti-prohibition bill just passed by the Council. LOCAL. The Post Office authorizes publication of the following mail note : Schooner ‘Creole’e left Christiansted with mail for St. Thomas at 12 o’clock noon July 22, and will return tonight, 23rd, on the second halt of the trip, bringing mail. It is now rumored that the .‘'Lake Leland’’ which was looked for in Chris- tiansted in these days, having sailed from New York on the 15th.. is calling only at Frederiksted. 4 ~ The Naval Band will render its usual Friday night concert on the wvharf this evening. CORRECTION In yesterday’s edit rial in this paper, the word not should be inserted between of and losing in the fifth to last line. e sentence corrected would then read “‘itappears to us unlikely that the chances of not losing the electric lighting sys- tem would be jeopardized,’’ etc.- Correspondence. 4 Christiansted, July 2z, 1920. Editor St. Crowx Avis:— May 1 use the columns of your esteem- ed paper to offer an expression of cordial approval and congratulation to the cor- respondent H. C. B. for his letter in yes- terday’s Herald? lam sure I have not Sivy: ‘ < F L 2. eR s e enjoyed such # hearty laugh as I did ~ over some parts jof that communication. especially the paragraph in which the write:r comments on the churches being so divided# and some of tbem turn- ing back to look for Italy perhaps, and making a terrible mess. That’s the sort of talk we want for sooth, and if yous correspondent Friend had taken some such stand in his recent writings there would have been less fighting between us. Now I can understand a man like g. C. ® 3 he evidently does some of his own thinking, not like A. T. who holds on (0 the apron string of his “‘spirtual guide’’. [ wish H. C. B. would write some more on this subject; that’s the kind of dope we feel amused at. < yours FOLLOWER, etc. TELEGRAMS. '. . ST. CROIX STATION. | Warsaw, July 19th. —The Bolsheviki in | . their westward push have reached the vicinity of the former Russo German battiefield on the western region of the | . Pripet marshes, Here the Poles are making a stand and heavy fighting is in ' progress at various parts of this line. The Bolsheviki have brought up arm- | oured trains from the railway leading southwest from Minsk and along another ' railway extending through the marshes | . {rom Mozir and Kaienko-Viten. ' | Beyrut, July 19th.—The Bedouin tribes | of northern Mesopotamia have formed | a coalition against the French whil> Fe- ' ' isal, head of the Syrian State, is endeav- ' | ouring to organize the bands west of ‘ . Aleppo into a movement against the . French. Clashes between the Arabs and | | ‘ i . French are expected any day and the | | situation is temse: The T.ebanon Leg- | . islative Assembly is reported to have | .| agreed secretly with Feisal that an au- | ' tonomous Lebanon shall be part of the | | Syrian Kingdom. | | Sandy Hook., July 19th.—Sir Thomas | Liptcn would not say this afternoon ' that developments might be expected . after tomorrow’s race with the Resolute ' por would he deny that he and his ad- | | visers had virtually decided to re-. | ' move Capt. Burton from the tiiler of ' the Shamrock after Saturday's con- test in which Capt. Burton's hand- | . ling of the Lipton craft, have been se- | verely criticized. Sir Thomas was | somewhat perturbed when he read in ' the newspapers of plans for supplant- | | ing Capt. Burton. . "'@apt. Burton will be . at the whee! tomorrow, 1 understand’’, ' said Sir Thomas thi s afternoon, “atter | that | ecannot say and of course I | will not talk about it’’..It was the ! . general belief aboard the Victoria today | | that Capt. Burton had asked for another | chance to sail the challenger and that | ! it had been granted him. Capt. Burton | could not be seen. The Shamrock IV " will be required to give Resolute a time allowance of seven minutes and one second in tomorrow’s race the regatta committee of the New York Yacit Club announced tonight. This increase of 21 seconds over the previous allowanece fol- lowed the granting of the application of the Lipton craft for permission to use a larger club topsail the new time allow- ance was announced after official re-mea surement had been made on the Sham ~ rock’s canvas. Berlin, July I¢th.- -'*We saved the Ruhr - from invasion, but we paida big price for it,”” is the way that Dr. Simmons, ~ Minister of Foreign Affairs, epitomozed the result of the meeting at Spa last week between the Germans and the Allies, according to a news agency re- ~ port. ‘‘Germany’s calvary’’ is the cap- tion in tolay’s issue of the Zeitung Ammittag, which says: ‘‘From Ver- . sailles to Spa then Geneva and then ' Brussels. Where will it end?’’ The - ~ Dortmund General Anzeiger comments ' on the surprise that it must have been . to the eonference when the President of . the German National Association told the conference that half a million er man miners were ready to lay down theinr tools unless they were adequately fed. A new foree, says the newspaper, mani- fested itself when he put it plainly, * No ~ food, no coal’’. | London, July 20th. —The Govt. was se- ~ verely attacked in the House of Commons iast night when Capt. O-msby-Gore 7Y e 1 .@ a ' : A ‘ (“oalition Unionist) moved an adjourn ment to call attention to the French policy in Syria, and gota clear dzelara tion of the British policy regarding it Capt. Ormsby-Gore emphasized . Lne . moral responstbility of the British Guvt ' which was dJdeepiy involved in view of | specific pledges it had given 1n support . of Ar.bian independence. The supreme . British interest in the Middle East, he i deelared, was the restoration of peace | while the inevitable outecome of the | French ultimatum would be a need so ' more British troops and inoney for tnis |~ region. He added that it was the Brit- - ish pledges alone which brousht the Arabs into the war on the sidc of the . Allies. wLord Edward Winterton, a . Qoalition Unionist, in supportirg Gore, strongly resentea having the Arabs as Allies in the war and abandonin® them afterwards for the sake of Frencn in terests, He did not believe Englisn- ~ men would be wiliing to fight their for- '+ mer Ailies, he added. Major Generai . Seezley, Coalition Liberal, thought the ~ French acted advisedly, because if they - *witndrew their forces from Cilicia pro- bably tens of thousand of Armenians - wouid be massacred. Mr. Bonar Law con- ~ tended the promise of Arab independence . was not incompatible with the man- . date and tnat King Feisal of Syria had attended the conierence when the man- date w s givena to France. Barlier 1n the day, replying to a quesiion, Mr. Bonar Law h:d said that the French ultimatum