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4’%\ X L : R a4 B&N L N Lo y i \\J ! | |8 [l - ( “?\\u,,;zb‘ ’Q . ey ®@ N P 1 - TR B@ @ N/ \ =X ¥T & \\/ Q\ \/1 I\l i ! ‘ \h?i’*i' i \ A W \, /-lé 5 : LEE@E (O 75TH YEAR. & 3 < CHRISTIANSTED, V.l U &, WEI')NES%I)AY 28T JULY 1920 THE S7. CRO!% AVIS | is printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. .Johansen at the Avis Office. : ' i 1MS---50 cents monthly 1 advance . 2 cents per single copy smtered as second-class matter May | 2th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- wtod W Cvoie. Vo[ orthetl 5. 4., un- der the et of March &. 1879 : Contribution to this paper will be glad- | ly received when the same deals with mat- | iems of geweral interest, ond is accompa- | nied with the *author’s name, as a quar- f antee of good fuith. The editor cannot be | responsible for the views of his correspon | lents nor does he necessarily endorse them. S i TELEGRAMS. ‘ ¢ ST CURUMX BATION. j London, July 23rd. - The War Office | announced that the Indian garrison be- | sioged at Homeika, Mesopotamia, was | relieved last Tuesday after a relief col- umn on Monday had dgfeated an Arab | force of 2,000. Many casualties were | inflicted on the Arabs. - | Tuam County, ‘Galway, dgy 2lst.— | There was jpromiscuous shooting and | several buildings were burned including . the townhall in an outbreak here yes- | terday morning . resulting, according to | the ‘‘town’s people”’ in the killing of two I policemen near Tuam last evening. The | firing began at 5 o’cloek, arousing the ’ inhabitayts and driving them so sheiter/ | Later, fires were started in different | parts of the town, doing £IOO,OOO worth | of damage, aecording to the Press As | sociation. THe military forces were cail- | ed out, but were soon withdrawn. Tlg; ; nu?er of casualties “were unknown: } I'he@® policemen killed were constables - {arey and Burke. They were shot dead | when returning from the Galway As- | sizes by ® party of from 40 to 50 armed | men who blocked the road with felled | trees and waited in ambush until the | car in which Carey and Burke, a ser- ’ geant and another constable were | riding, ‘eame in sight. Übserving the obstruction Carey and Burke jumped out | of the car and were shot and killed in- | stantly. The two others alighted and l fired upon their assailants untl their | ammunition was exhausted. They were | then overpowered and reiieved ol their | ritles, blindfolded and ordered to return | to Tuam. The police and military be- | came active shortly afterwards and it : 18 alleged that thev sacked the town. shots being fired into nguses and shops f Buildines were set afire, and the town- | hatl was wrecked. v i | Belfus:, July 2ist.—Eleven members | of the Royal Irish Constabulary were g shot dead between July Ilth-and 19th, | and with the burning today of the Car- 1 . donages Coart Hodse, the third court | house in Norch Donegal has been burnt ‘ within a week. The object of the burn I ' ing of the buitdings has been. to prevent . the tfial of Josephv. Doherth. Sinn ‘ . Fein member of Pariiament, who has I . been charged with soliciting subserip- i tions -for the Irishe Republican Darlia- | | -ent. No Dublin metropolitan police- | | men hav: been killed since Aprii 30th, | ' the msn of this force now being unarm- | . ed whiie on daty. | x Montreal, July 23rd.—The Montreal | |« ''Star’’ publishes the following cable | | from London: ‘:After weeks of con- | | ferences with M. Krassin over Soviet | . Russia’s proposals to grant concessions 3 | to the rest of the world 1n return for the | ' re-establishment oi trade relations, ai- { . ter a bitter international debate in which | | Great isritain’s stand very nearly pre | | cipitated a break between herself and | | her ally Irance, and after arriving at ] | apoint where an almost immediate re- | | sump‘ivn of commerce might have been | | expected, the deal s off. It was given | | authoritatively that all trade negoti- } i ations with Russia have been definitely ‘ ( ended for the present, and that Russia ‘ can look for nn more conferences until | | . sne has absolutely pu: a stop to her | | © campaigns against Poland. § l St. Johns, N. F.,j July®*22nd. —Experts | | from the Marconi Wireless Company who | | are here conducting experiments in long- | . distance wireless telephonic commmunica- | f tion, announced tcgay that they heard i | messages from the “helmsford Station | | near London, mopre than 2,000 miles | | distant. They gaid they recognized ; | the voice of Captar%! Round, the expert i in charge, and ide{;ti?ed several words, } i but {ailed to piek up any *connected | | sentence : _ 1 | Warsaw, July 22nd.—The menace to ’ ' the P:lish capital is becoming serious . through the defeat of the*ett wing of i | ~the Polish army. Since ike attack ot | i the Bolsheviki against Viina on July | . 2ath. the Polish left or northern wing has | . been compelled to hasten its retreat ‘ - and the Dolsheviki have been following it with an advance averaging 15 miles : | - dafly. In three Weeks the Poles have | retired from the Berisnia river to the Niemen, a distance -of more than 180 172 ~ miles and the distance between the Nie- men and the Vistula which flows through Warsaw, is less than that being about - 150 miles. ® London, July 22nd.—Writing to the coalition candidate in the Norfolk kye- ' election Mr. Lloyd George says. "‘While many crities strive to blame the Govt. for social econon ic hardships which we suffer inevitably as a resuit oI war-time co ditions, *statesmen and people of ’ other lands are imypressed beyond mea- I sure, and regard with increasing won- der, the firm and stable character of ' British commerce and Its prodigious ~ recovery after so long a period of trial . and suffering. | Honolulu, July 22nd.— Negotiations : have been completed between Japan and . Asiatic Russia regarding the creation of . Buffer State in Siberia, a Govt. mem- ' orandum issued in Tokio today announc- ' ed, according to a Tokio cable received here. Asiatic Russia has agreed to pre- . serve peace and maintain friendly rela- { tione with Japan and a Bolsheviki Com- | munist while Ja‘pan has gxgx'gmi to with- ~ draw Ler troops from the Buster territory and the European Bolsheviki armics are | to be barred from the territory the mem | orandum was quoted as saying. | Havre, July 22nd.—The Freneh liner 8. S. Latouraire, which left New York | (n' 18th Juiy, grounded on Wolf Bank, t about 200 miles from Barfleur: BShe got " off under her own power and is proceed- - ing to Havre under satisfactory eondi ' tions. The ship sprang aleak but this ; has been stopped temporarily. i | London, July 22nd. - -The German air- g ship L. 64, slightly larger than the Rrit- ' =ish dirigible R 34, which last year made a *Transatlantic voyage, was surrerdered at the Pulham Airdronie this morning in . accordance with the treaty of Versaiiles. ' ¢ | ‘ N -~ NOTICE. i & | l ARTIES having claims agalnst the es | P tate of “he deceased MARY iRNES. | TINL. HUGHES are hereby notified | to fiie such claims accompanied with the pecessary evidence of same with the un- dersigned executer iestamenti, within i»,.;.‘th!'t:‘t' months “rom the publication ot -this notice- s Thomas, Virgin Islands, 19th July 1920" i e JONGIL.