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New ltems On Postal Affairs;j FURNISHED BY THE POSTMASTER AT CHRISTIANSTED. The issue of $5 war-savings stamps, and thrift stamps was discontinued on December 31, 1921, and their sale ceased on that date. The 1922 issue of Treasury-savings certificates will take the place of war- savings and thrift stamps, and may be obtained in denominations of $25; $100; and $1000; at S2O; $80; and SBOO respective- ly. A new stamp of $1 denomination, non- interest bearing,known as a Treasury-sav- ings stamp is also for sale, jand when 20 of these stamps are affixed to a Treasury- savings card, the same will be accepted in exchange for a $25 Treasury-savings certificate. All information relative to this subject will be .furnished by the postmaster who invites public interest thereto. The Post Office Department is willing to establish the Postal Savings sys- tem at Christiansted it there lis any reasonable field for it here. The Post- master will he pleased to furnish .all elucidations as regards its operation, and to hear from any patrons of the office who are interested in this branch of the postal service. LOCAL. The Home Service Committee will meet this afternoon at three-thirty at the Red Cross office instead of tomorrow. To-morrow being Citizenship Day and a legal holiday, there will be no issue of this paper. ) The Mystery arrived at Frederiksted yesterday bringing some forty odd bags mail for Chistiansted which were receiv- ed and delivered to box-holders in the forenoon. Theatre patrons and all who can ap- preciate the stirring and exciting in film production should not miss tonight’s show at the theatre. See programme in this issue and posters at the corners, and secure seats in time. The Native Brass Band delivered a very fine popular concert in the Band- stand last night. All the benches in the Park and Band- stand are being refreshed and made to look presentable under a coat of paint. The footbali match played yesterday on the Holger Danske Ground b:tween Dreadnought No. 1 and the Native Stars resulted in a draw game. s T. ROX AV]S @ Cricket! A cricket tnatch will be played on the Holger Danske Ground, Tuesday 17th inst., between the Christiansted Cricket Club and a picked eleven from the Athle- tic Association. Game commences at 10.30 A. M. All lovers of sport are welcomed. Names of players. ©. C. Club. Athletic Association L. Henderson, C. Richardson, Capt. Capt. D. Armstrong, V. Thompson, ~ H. Armstrong, B. Anduze, 31D. Armstrong, L. Conrad. . Dr. C, Canegata, A. Fabio, H. Edwards, A. Schjang, L. Welthropp, C. Forup, K. Estmann, E. Hassell, W. Messer, L. Edwards, Anselm. Fabio, H. Delamos, Frank Heyns H über. - Extras. Extras H. Bryan. P. Jackson. Umpire. Umpire. G. Lange. A. Danielsen. TELEGR + M>. 851. CROIX STATION. Jamaica, Jan. 11th. —At a special meet- ing of the Jamaican Imperial Association yesterday ™r. A. W. Farquharson was appointed as representative of Jamaica to proceed to England .o place before His Majesty’s Government the position of she sugar industry in Jamaica. Mr. Farquharson moved the following resolu- tion which was called unanimously. Cause of trouble:—That this meating of the Jamaica Inperial Association desire to record its well considered opinion. (a) That owing to the rapid and ab- normal development of Cuba as a sugar producing country there is a temporary over production of uzar having regard to the world’s temporary reduction in consuamption caused by wide-spread in- dustrial and economic depression and by heavy import duties imposed in consum- ing countries. That the price of sugar is in consequence belaw the cost of pro- duction. b (b) That sugar production must suc- camb in those ecountries that are not helped to survive the crisis either by fiscal protection in the countries of con- §umption or by powerful finanecial back- ing. (e) That the United States Govern- ment by means of the Fordney Emerg- ency Law and .otherwise are taking measure to assist. sugar producers in the United States and its Colonies to survive the crisis. (d) That Cuban ;sugar production has the powerful backirg of United States financiers. (e) That efforts are being made to * secure 3 market for the Cuban surplus at the expense of producers in Colonies of the British Empire. (f) That it is essential in the inter- ests of sugar production within the Em- pire that substantial preference should be granted to sugar produced within the Empire and that steps should be taken to prevent the dumping Great Britain of surplus sugars from Cuba or elsewhere. (:) That it is highly desirable that a deputation consisting ¢f & representative from each of the ;sugar producirg Colo- nies of the Empire should wait on His Majesty’s Government to make urgent representation on the subject with g view to obtaining such aid as may be necessary to meet the crisis’’, Cannes, Jan. 11th.——The Allied Su- preme Council met today to consider Germany’s war reparations. The desire of Germany to participate in the consorti- um which is going to engage in - the gigantic enterprise of restoring European countries including Austria and Russia, to normal conditions, is counted upon to overcome any hesitztion they might have to subseribe to the Allied new terms. If Germany does not want to abandon her cherished idea of taking a large part in the economic restoration of Russia, she must declare her intention of paying what she owes. The final terms for re- parations payments that th2 German delegation will be asked to accept are 720,000,000 gold marks and repartions in kind to the value of 1,750,000,000 gold marks, annually. France firally re. nouncing any part of the one billion marks already paid. will get 1,125,000, 200 marks of the payment in kind each vear, remainder going assfollows. 230,000,000 to Italy. 100,000,000 to Great Britain. 125,000,000 to Belgium, 7,000,000 to Japan. The rest goes to other benefici- aries under the treatment of the 720,- 000,000 gold marks: payable in eash in 1922, Great Britain wiil get 159,000,000 of which she will loan 139,000,000 to France, the loan being repayable from later cash payments by Germany to France. The rest will apply on Belgium’s priority. This division applies only to the present year, the idea being that payments in cash be in part ap- plied to payment of interest on series of the German bonds to the value of one billion gold marks, now in the hands of the reparations commission, to secure payment of 519,000,000 marks to Belgium, 45,000,000 to Great Britain and 31,000,000 to Italy, Washington, Jan. 11th.—The Japanese delegates to the conference today tenta- tively agreed to the wiithdrawal of Ja- panese troops from the former German Kiaochow leasehold and from Tsing Tao Tsinar Fu wrailway on condition that China furnish proper policing. The del- egates did not discuss the date on which the withdrawals would take place. Cannes, Jan. 11th.—The situation in Paris, to which city the French Premier