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75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED, V. 11. U. S. A.. TUESDAY. 30ta SEPTEMBER 1919. in Fiume in small boats, making the l journey under the shelter of the numer- | ous Dalmatian Islands while others re- ’ main in Dalmatia ready to face Jugo- l Slav aggre:sion’’. The newspaper des- l cribes an alle ed reign of terror as ex- | isting in districte like Ragu:a and'Spalato which have bheen entrusted to Serbian | 4roops. The Serbians, it says, are en- | forcing military s>rvice on all men from ! the ages of 20 to 40 and wnenever they | meet with resistaice they have recourse to deportations or a la.ge scale to Mace- donia and Albania, which is equivalent to eondemnation to death, since none re- turn from their. forced iabour there. ‘‘Many persons’’, the newspapers adds, “‘not only Italians. but Slavs, in fear of treatment, have led the country. The Dalmatians impl-re the intervention of the Allies’’. Paris. Sept. 26th.——M. Clemenceau’s address in the C'hamber of Deputies yes- terday, in which iie asked for the rati- fication of the treary of peace with Ger- many, was made on his 78th. birthday. The Premier rec:illed how at one crisis the Allies had tc decide vhether to de- fepd Calajs or Paris. . "'A few days - l3ter’’, he contirued. ‘‘Premier Lleyd- « George of Great Britain asked me what \I had decided. I replied., ‘France made Paris, Paris made France. I would burn Paris to save France’’, New York, Sept. 26th.—There will be no recurrence c¢f influenza for many years, is the opinion of Dr. William H. Park of New York, who spoke yesterday before the International Conference of Women Physicians. Dr. FPark said that there might be ‘‘certain infeetions’’, but not an epidemic. ‘‘We have not yet dis- covered a socific accine to protect influ- enza’’, said Dr. 'ark. ‘‘bu: observations of the last few ygars promised a moder- ate protection agiinst pheumonia, bron- chitis and respira ory diseases in general, from vaccination with several final straius of organisns found in respiratory | diseases’ . | Wichita, Kas., Sept. 26th.—-President | Wilson today cancelled the remainder of his tour under orders from -Admiral Grayson, the President’s physician. and will return to Washington direct from Wichita. Admir2! Grayson gave illness | and physica' exlaustion as the reason | for his action. Although there was said to be nothing serious about the Presi- | dent’s conditions. Dr. Grayson declared | a nervous reaction affecting his diges- tive organs made suspension of his trip imperative. ° THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and published daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johansen - at the Avis Office. T RMS---40 cents monthly in advance, 2 cents per single copy. Entered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- wed, St. Crote, V. L. oths 1. 5. A., un- der the Act or March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of general interest, and 18 accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. I'he editor cannot be responsible for the views ofhis correspon- dentsnor does he necessarily endorse them. TELEGRAMS ST. GROIX STATION. Boston, Sept. 25th--An. hope that the policemcn, who deserted their posts and causeda riot in this city recently. have had in returning to their positions, has been once and for all knocked in the head. Governor Coolidge has issued a proclamation in which he zays that the act of the policemen in relinquish- ing their posts *o the enemy was nothing short of treason and he calls upon the citizens of the Commonwealth to stand by him in the execution of his oath of office, by supporting the authority of the Govt. and resisting all assaults upon .it. In part he also siys, ‘‘There is an . obligation inescapable and no less solcmn to resist all those who do not support the Govt. The authority of the Common- weaith cannot be intimidated or coerced. It cannot be compromised. . The main- tenance of the publi¢ security, in the -hands of a. body of .men. who have at- __tempted to. destroy . _'Would be t» float e sovereignty of the laws the people “"nAv. made. Itis my duty to resist any - such proposal. ‘Lhose who would counsel it join hands with those whose acts have threatened to destroy the Govt. There -is no middle ground. Every attempt to prevent the formation of a new police force isa hlow at the Govt. That way treason lies. No man has a right to place his own ease or convenience, or the op- portupity of making money, above his duty to the State.”’ e Rome, Sept. 25th.—'‘Dalmatia is a powder magazine’’, says the '‘Giornale d’[taiia’’,Volunteers everywhere are en- listing and have already reached several thousand, some of them have-arrived No. 224. Rome, Sept. 26th. —Signor Tittoni, the Foreign Minister, declared during the meeting of the Crown Council today that the Peace Conference would not permit Italy to annex Fiame because such actien would authorize the Czecho-Slovaks to occupy Tesche, the Jueo-Slavs to move forces in Klagenturt, the Greeks to claim Thrace and the Roumanians to annex Banat. Paris, Sept. 26th——M. Clemenceau, in the course of his speech in the Chamber of Deputies urging the ratification nf the Peace Treaty and the necessity of main- taining the solidarity of the Allies in peace as in war, referred with deep emotion to the hercism of the British, Australian and Canadian troops. ‘‘Are we to refuse these men, Premier Hughes of Australia, Premier Borden of Canada and Premier Massey of New Zealand the gratitude we owe them’’, he demand- ed, "'l found them to be friends of France, (Cheers.) Must there not have been something in the minds and hearts of these men from the confines of the Pacific to induce them to spring to arms and come to usin courage, the equal of anything known in history. Do you realize the solidarity which is being created and that it is folly to reproach us with having introduced them into the Council of the League of Nations’’. (cheers). London, Sept 26th.—‘‘I do not thfnk there 1s a shadow of a doubt that the miners and the transport workers will join the strike’’, said Mr. Thomas, Gen- eral Secretary of the National Uniefl of* Railwaymen, in an interview with the “Daily Mail”’. According tc that paper the Govt., also expects the miners and transport workers who, with the rail- waymen are members of the ‘‘Triple Alliance’’, to ‘gin the strike. St. Thomas, Sept.. 27th.— Cancel no- tice of ninth August, re British Post Office Dept’s. advice that messages for the Continent of Eu ope are liable to de- lay ete. - . oTt e is hereby given that no charcoal can be supplied by this Institution from date to October Ist. a. c. Richmond Penitentiary, St. Croix, V.L, September 17, 1919. ; . : C. ESPERSEN, % - Director in Charge.