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NOTICE: - &’ \ THE Bridge on Spring Gut road. ‘Bast End Quarter’ i 3 nog un- der repairs, and therefore thetoad is elosed until further notice. For the Roal Commission. ¥. LUNNEY. The Creole arrived:here yesterday at 5 p. m. an.d was greeted by the usual curious throng which gathered with as much interest as though ihe schooner was Amundser’s ship docking just af- ter a polar expedition. We have nev- er ‘been able to understand why so “lany people want to crowd about the —Hoat every time, obstrucung the move- ments of those required to inspdet the ship, and passengers wanting to land, as well as heing ir. the way of the mail which in some instances is thrown almost on their heads before they will give way. The postmaster advises that the mail- boat will return to St. Thcmas at noon to- day and mails will be e¢losed accordingly. “The Vigilant took in a load of cattle vesterday- for Porto Rico and sailed for Fajardo during last nignt TELEGRAM»S ST. CROIX STA tION. Constantinople, Sept. 20th —Cavalry forces-of General Wrangel have driven back the Reds on the Orienthoy front, it was announced on Saturday. The Bol- shevik have retreated beyond Takamas Riga, Letvia, Sept. 19th —After a two hour conference yesterday afternoon be- tween M. Bombski head of the Polish peace mission and M. Joffe, chief of the Russian Soviet Dealegation, the opinion was expressed by M Lados, Secretary of the Polish Mission, that there is little chance of a cessation of the Rasso Polish fighting until preliminary peace terms are agreed upon. Action at the confer- ence which will ¢ndeavour to reach an agreement on armistice termms and for- mulate a treaty o peace between Poland and Soviet Russia will be controlled large- iy by the military situation, according to views expressed The favouralbie miii- tary situation of the Poles at present which makes rheir position more secure and the delaying in the arrival of the Polish delegates here. coupled with the deliberateness of the preliminary proce dure have created the impression that the conference may be longer drawn out. New York. Sept. 20th. In defiance of the order of the British Admiraity to keep away from Queenstown the United States mail steamship company’s Pan- handle State sailed on Saturday for the Irish port on her maiden voyage. Twen- WeF i K ty-five passengers sailed on the new ves- sel which ~as built tor the U. S. Baip- piag Board. _ j Paris, Sept. 20th. Premier Milierand today agreed tn ve a candidate for the presidency of”the republic to succeed M. | Desehane! who has tendered his resigna® ~ I Jdon. \ P ~ (Genoa, Sept. 20th.—Police officials have : ascertained the bomb which exploded in the Sctock Exchange vn Friday, nad been | made rocently and for this reason there | is some suspicion that it was turned out ! by a plant occupied by workmen. At- | tempts have been made to blow up several i fashionable restaurants ~ne of® waich | was located in the basement of the Stock * Fxchange building. Six Hungarians | have been arrested in connection with ! the plot, i London. Sept. 20th. —A- despatch to the Exchanze [elegrash Co. from Rome says the negotiations between the em- ployers and the metal workers io Milan concluded on Sunday® evening and that an agreement was reachedon every point except concerning the question of the i dismissal of workmeu who have been guilty of ecrimes ipside tne factories during the time the workmen bhave occu- . pied” them. The workers, according to the despatch, will evacuate the factories. The metal workers have accepted a wage advance of four lire daily, this amount to be reduced DY ZO7 In ihe case. of workmen from 1Bto 20 years of age and by 40% in the cases of women and chil- dren. The employers have also ayre-d to grani a week's vacation annualiy w 0 | workmen. The men asked that this ad- f vanee date from July Ist and that they | be paid arrears since that time, but the employers hold that the increases should be effective from the resumption of | work. £ ‘ London, Sept. 20th.—Extraordinary | rumours are in ecirculation ‘throughout Lanarkshire to the effect that the lead- | ers of the deottish “ommunists move- | ment have planned a sensation coup to | be sprung it ‘Blantyre, 8 miles southeast of Glasgow, sdys a despatch to the West- | minster Gazett: from Hamilton, Scot- | land. It is asserted that the cashiers and officials are bluntly told that seiz re of the coal is imminent and that it is | proposed to establish a Soviet system of i | mining controls, the despatch adds. f Duablin, Sept. 20th.—Quick reconnais- ] sance revealed a band of armed men | drilling and doing bombing practice in a | field with an officer in_charge. They - were surrounded by a forte much superi or to-their own and, despite the odds against them, the Sinn Feiners offered | rasistance. When the att~cking -troops approached a short and sharp fight en- sied in which bombs were thrown and rifie firing engaged in untii at length | more than 40 Sinn Feiners laid down | their arms ir token of surrender. One | of their number had been killed and | several wounded. : f Philad-lphia, Sept. 2lst.—Th: incog- nito ieam of Englandon Saturday wn the two days’ cricket matech with rhe all Pat.adelpnia 'l by five wiekets { loronto, Sept. - 2lst.—ln the «iseus’ sy of preferentigl trade gwithin e empire by the Ninth ‘ongress of ihe Chambers of Commerce of tne Briiish Empire yes.erday. Mr. George Huag- gins, representing the Chambor of Commerce “of Trinidad, W<=st [adies, said:— {he West Indies would like to see (ree trade within the whole Bri ish Empire but want it to- be tair trade and not free trade as it was accepied in ngland. -Mr. Huggins eriticized some of the features oi the ieciprocal irade arrangement -between Canada ard the West Indies. He said that the West Indies were grateful to Canada so. mak- ing a subsidized sreamship service but objection was taken to-the Canadi- ans doing ail their purchases from the West Indies tarough New York brokers. [f the buyers in this county then will, come to us direct, said Mr. Huggins, we will be able v get closer together Mr. Huggins said lor polical reasons polical udiop between Canada and fle West Indies was impo-sible. Mr. Har- ris Cranttord, Ontario, declared that the whole policy of t e British West [ndies is settled in Londor by civil ser- vants or Govt. officials who'know noth- T GRS it IO St R trade. . Constantinople, Sept. 21st.—The Turk- ish Nationalist torces in Southern Asia Minor are continuing their fighting against th2 French troops of occupation there. 10,000 Turks and Arabs are besieging Adana and others ‘are daily shelling larsus with five inch old Gerinan guns, which are being operated by German oilicers, who have been stranded there since the armistice. Frequent attacks are being made cn Mersina, an important seaport south of Adana, but have been repuised by the fire from the guns of the French battleships in-the harbour. Hand to haad figzhting frequently oecars at Aban_ where the French Senegalese and the Turks and Arabs are cutting off the heads of the fallen to be sure they are dead. - New Yorx, Sept 19#h.—Department of Justice agents and the Police were still without a_definite clue tonight to the identity of the person or persons respon- sible for Thursday’s explosion in Wall Street. Alexander~ Brailovsky, . a Rus- sian journalist, wgo was arrested late yesterday on information furnished by an annonymeus correspondent and who admitted hawving been in the financial district a short time after the explosion occurred, is still being held wihout bail on a charge of being an undesirable alien. I'ne only other important development within the past 24 heurs is the suggestion by medical examiner Norris that the sole remaining unidentified body, that of a blond haired boy about 19. may be that