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bution to a six-year-old institution does not give any embployee thereof the right to throttle those of us who have built up . the Union with the sweat of our brow. None of us however can prevent the Secretary or any other official of the Union making a fool vs himself in print by signing this or any other such notice. Yrs. truly JOSEPH MILLER. Dear Mr. Editor, - I am glad to see by your cotem the W.'E. News that the other end of this island is the ‘‘wet’’end I think that those of us who are complaining so much about the ‘‘dryness’”’ of this end had better move down. Yours truly, J. TO RECAST AUSTRIAN FINANCE. GLUCKSTADT, DANISH BANKER, WILL UNDERTAKE TASK FOR ALLIES Copenhagen, April 4th.—The Entente has asked the Direcctor of the largest Danish Bank, Den Danske Landmands- bank, of Copenhagen, Emil Gluckstadt, to take over the work of organization of the finances of Austria. The direc- tor has decided to answer in the affirm- ative. Gluckstadt, with two other Danish financiers, participated in the financial conference at Brussels, -where the En- tente evidently saw and appreciated his ability. He will arrive in Vienna April 14th. [Mr. Gluckstadt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the West Indian Sugar Factories (the Bethiehem Concern.). Ebp. Avis] ; TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, April 18th.—Goveranmental authorities were anxious today to reopen negotiations between the miners and the owners of collieries throughout the United Kingdom with the hope of bring- ing about a settlement of the wage question, which caused the strike of miners on April Ist, and came near involving Great DBritain last week in an epocal industrial erisis. There seemed iittie probability however, that the mem- bers of the Miners Federation of Great Britain would take any steps to meet the Government officials or 'mine owners before next Friday when re presentatives of the British miners will confer on the situation in this city. In the meantime Great Britain- is facing a serious coal shortage, and every effort is being made to eke out the present stocks until adjustment of the situation can be made. Beginming today train services were curtailed and steps taken to bring to the people a realization SIT. R Uulx A ylISs that the coal shortage was really serfous. New York, April 18th.—Raw sugar was quiet early today, no sales were reported, with prices quoting @ 4% cents for Cuba’s, C&F; equal to 5.77 for centri- fugal, as quoted by the committee, while uncontrolled sugars were quoted as 5.64 for centrifugal. Refined was quiet at 7.65 to 8.00 for fine granulated, Futures were steadier and prices at midday were unchanged to points higher on covering and trade buying. Paris, April 18th.—The new customs regime established in the occupied terri- tory of Germany. under the inter-allied Rhineland commission ordinance of April Oth. constituteda new flagrant violation of the Versailles treat, says a note trans- mitted by the German Govt. to the coun- cil of Ambassadors here today. ‘Jopies of the note were also sent to the British French, Belgian and Italian Governments. Paris, April 19th. —Consideration of the coercive measures to be applied to Germany, should 3such action become necessary through refusal of the Ger- mans to give satisfactory assurances on May Ist, of an intention to pay the reparations due, was taken up early to- day by Marshal Foch, General Weygand, acting secretary to the gereral staff, M. Loucheur, Minister of the liberated regions, anl M. Beydoux, who repre- sented France &as financial expert dur- ing the Brussel’s Conference. Absolute secrecy was maintained as to the decision of the conferees, who will meet fre- quently to frame the details of the propose measures and assemble them for presentation to the Allies of France. At a meeting of the cabinet on Friday to discuss the question of eventual exten- sion of the military penalties to be applied to Germany it vas announced the French Government wonld take no action un- til consulting with France’s allies. London, April 19th. —The owners of coal mines throughout the United King- dom met here today, and it was ex- pected that Mrm Lloyd George would submit to the conference suggestions which might lead to a prompt renewal of negotiation with the striking miners for the settlement of the wage con- troversy. A formal conference with the miners’ leaders was not expected until Friday, when a general conference of the Union leaders willi be held here, but there appears to be a belief that means might be found to bring the par- ties to the industrial conflict together without great delay. A distinctly favour- able atmosphere regardinga settlement of the conflict has developed as a re- sult of an address made yesterday be- fore the House of Commons by Mr. Lioyd George. The Premier declined to alter his position in opposing a national pool of profits, but he likewise stood firm against attacking the rights es unions. Rome, Agril 19th.—Conditions ap- proaching anarchy seem to prevail in northern central Italy, where parties o’ extreme nationalists have been in arin - ed conflict with socialists and com- munists almost daily for the past week. The disorders, whith are the outcome of partisan feeling aroused by the elec- tional campaign “in progress, appear to centre about Florence and other Tuscar cities. Reports received here do not in- dicate the authorities are able to cope with any degree ,of success with strife between the nationalists and the radi- cals. Upwards of a score of persons were killed in Meleos on Sunday and there were several ambush and running fights during the day. A number of socialists and communists’ clubrooms have been wrecked by the nationalists. Leaders of the communists have been forced to declare their fealty to the Italian Government and the tricolour has bee. raised above ccmmunists halls. General strikes have been called in a number of cities where there has been bloodshed in recent fighting. Menphis, Tenn., April 18th. -With the death roll in the tornadoes, and storms which swept six southern states on Satdrday remaining at approximate- ly 100, relief work in the devastated areas is being pushed by national, state and ciyvic organizations, with reports tonight indicating that the immediate need of sufferers have been cared for. The list of known dead stands at 94, witha number of persons missing and believed dead in Arkansas and Texas. A dozen more of the injured are ex- pected to die. London, April 19th.—The funeral train bearing the body of the former Empress of Germany reached Wild Park station at Potsdam shortly before midnight,ac- cording to a Berlin message (o the Ex- change Telegraph. The whole station was crowded an| cordoned by the police. Prince Henry, the former Emperor’s brother, ‘he former Crown Princess, the Grand Duke of Baden, Marshal Von Hin- denburg and Generals I.udendorff and Mackensen were on the platform. Offi- cers mounted kept guard around the bier. London, April 19th. —The mine owners late tonight completed proposals which, it is believed, may go some way towards the settlement of the coal strike. lhis was the outcome of 1 conference held at the Board of Tr: de between the owners and the Government officials, where pro- popals of their previous offer to the min- ers were considered. London. April 19th —Sugar in stock on the 16th. inst., was 160,000 ton.. Last year 73,000 tons. . Jamaica, April 20th. —The four-masted British schooner “‘Edgewood’’, St Thom- as to Mobile, which drifted on to a sandbank at St. Margaret’s Bay recent- ly and was subsequently floated by a wrecking steamer, is now reported com- pletely destroyed by fire at Fort Anto- nio. ‘The origin of the fire is unknown. \