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the Dreadnought Boys will return home victorious. Two members of the Native DBrass Band here are expected to take part in the Foot Ball match to be played in St. Thomas on Labor Day. We hope our boys will bring back the laurels with them. Look alive, and show our friends in St. Thomas the real kick off, and the stuff we are made of. —Com. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, Aug. 30th--South Wales trade revival is heralded by the opening of the famous Ebbs Vale steel works, after several months of stoppage. 8,000 workers have been taken on in the tin plate works and other branches of the in dustry are also re-opening. Baldwins have secured an order for 17,000 tons of steel rails for China. New York, Aug. 30th.—Raw sugar continued firm at 4.61 to 4.86 for cen- trifugual, the latter being Cuban com- mon price. Sales were 2,800 bags of San Domingo’s at 2% cif, equal to 461 for centrifugal. Raw sugar futures were firmer on the improving spot mar- ket aud advanced two to eight points. Refined sugar was firm on the basis of 590 to 5.00 for fine granulated. Re- fined futures were also firm and from ten to iwenty points net higher on the strength in raws. London, Aug. 30thb—TheRussian Soviet Government, charging that the Russian Allied relief committee intended to over- throw the Soviet Govt, for the purpose of establishing one of its own, have placed the membhers ot the committee under arrest, says a Reuter despatch from Riga today. London, Aug. 30th.—A Reuter cable from Simla, India, reports that the Mop- lah disturbances in some districts are subsiding. Public spirited Hindu Chris- tian civilians are taking a hand by beat- ing off the rebels as they approach. This is due to the belief, which is con- firmed by local newspapers that the rising is directed not merely against the .Govt. but against all non-Moslems Hull- England, Aug. 30th.—Virtually all of the wreckage of the ZR2 which fell into the Humber river last week, has now been raised, according to Sir Fred- erick Young, a salvage expert, today. The British naval salvage ship Reindeer which was used during the war in sal- vaging submarines, arrived today to assist in recovering the remaining debris, Hope was still expressed that the major- ity of the bodies of the airmen who lost their lives .in the accident, would be recovered. The body of quarter-master serg(. Greener of the R A F was washel ashore this morning in the river near Borough, six miles West of Hull. London, Aug. 30th—A Reuter’s cable from Capetown, South Africa, reports ET CRUIX A YIS the arrival there of General Smuths, Premier of the South African Union, who received an enthusiastic reception. Dublin, Aug. 80th.-—The reply of the Irish Republican cabinet to the latest letter of Mr. Lloyd George on the Irish peace negotiations will be forwarded tonight, the publicity department of the Sinn Fein announcad this afternoon. Mr. De Valera had a conference with the cabinet members this nfternooen, Dublin, Aug. 30th.—Optimism in Dub- lin over the Irish peace regotiations received a shock today, when Mr. John Mac Neill. speaker of the Irish Republi- can Parliament, in introducing a deputa- tion from Tyrone and Fermonagh coun: ties to Eamon De Valera, delivered a violent attack against Mr. Lloyd George. The speaker said that the Premier's words in his letter to Mr. De Valera in which he mentioned the pnssibility of civil war, would be taken to be fanatical violence, which the speaker declared haa been the outeome of British policy. The British Ministry, he added, have their hands on the switch of Belfast fanatic- ism. This policy was old. he asserted, but he deciared that Mr. Lloyd George had crystallized it into the local regime. It was not to prevent civil warfare, the Dai ] Eireann speaker declared, bat to prepare for it, that the Govt. had be~2n disarming all, except its friends, and arming its friends as special police or- ganized in Orange iodges, who would be let iloose upon the uparme population. The deputation from the two counties consisted of the chairman ct the county Council and local elected representatives. They told Mr. De Valera and the Cabinet that Tyrone and Fermanagh would not submit to the Belfast Parliament, of whose area they claimed to constitute 36 percent. They declared that in the two counties there was an anti-partition ma- jority of 7,831. Mr, De Valera confined his reply to assuring them that the Dail Cabinet was aware of their situation. Washington, August 30th.—Brigadier General Bandholts, who made a preli- minary investigation around the Mingo districts last week, was ordered back to West Virginia to watch the situation and advise thef War Dept. how the proclama- tion was received. In a report made pub- lic at the White House, General Band- holtz expressed the opinion that the State authorities bhad made only feeble at- tempts to restore order- The proclama- tion was issued by the President after a day of !conferences with Secretary Weeks, General Bandhojtz and Major Gen eral Harbord, assistant chief of staff. A West Virginia delegation, headed by Senator Sutherland, was also in con- ference with the President and Secretary Weeks, and strongly urged the des- patch of troops to the scene of trouble. The intlmation was given by administra- tion officials that if troops were sent there would be an adequate force and that ‘‘there would be no child’s play’’. While some disquiecirng ireports reached here during the day from West Virginia officials, there was apparently a feeling among Govt. officials that the people commanded by the President to return to their homes do so, and that Thurs- day noon would see a restoration of or- der, which would make the presence of troops unnecessary. At the same time, however, there was a firm determination on the rart of the administration to meet an) serious situation that might arise. “We will cross the widge when we got to it Thursday noon, was the way an official expresseo it, ‘‘but we hope and believe troops will Lot be needed.’’ ® American Red Cross. Washington, July I.—Plans for a ne- tional Jconvention bringing together Americar Red Cross workers in all parts of the country were announced at Na- tiemal Headquarters today. It will be held at Columbus, Ohio, from October 3 to 8 next, on the Ohio State Exposition Grounds. President Harding has aec- cepted an invitation to address the dele- gates, contingent upon public business permitting hhm to go to Columbus at that time, and the session will be ad- dressed by other speakers of national and international prominence. The object of the convention will be to bring together for inspiration and counsel concerning the permanent activ- ities c¢f the organization as many active workers as possible. Among the fea- tures of the program already developed are mass sessions in the great Exposition Coliseum and sectional eonferences on the various phases of Red Cross Service. Supplementing these wiil be an historical pageant portraying the past, present and future, of the American Red Cross in which there will be 1,500 participants. There will also be a Junior Red Cross spectacle and reunions of the home base and overseas 'Red Cross personnel that served in the World War. Among those to whcm invitations te address the mass sessions of the Con- vention have been issued are Former President Williem Howard Taft, General John J. Pershing, Secretary of War John W. Weeks, and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby. Various national officers of the Ameriean Red Cross will also ad- dress the delegates, among them Dr. Livingstone Farrand, chairman of the Cerntral Committee; W. Frank Persons, Vice Chai man in Charge of Domestic Operations; Miss Mabel 1. Boardman, pational secretary; and Mrs. August Belmont, member of the Central Com- mittee. Mr. F. A. Coulter has been appointed joint delegate from the Santa Cruz and St. Thomas chapters fto this conven- tion.