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the head of the Island, today 1} am the only, and in a short time there wili be none. Now, like every- thing else, the cost of materials for the fishery is much dearer than formerly; for example sails that used to cost 24cts. per yard, today is sl.lO, Manila rope formerly 18cts. per lb. is now 4(cts., wire for fish-pots formerly 20 to 25cts. is now $1 40a roll, Wisr-rope which was 14 to 15cts., is now 35 10 40 cents, Faint that was 12c¢ts. per lb., is now 4dcts., Qil 80 cents perv gallon is now $2.70. Sno far the immense advance in the cost of materials to keep up our work. but now what abourt the fishermen’s personal re- quirements, iheir living cost three times as much as ormerly. Can they then be expected to sell their fish at the same rate as they did when everything near- ly was one quarter of what itis today? When these figures and others too num- erous to mericion are compared, it will be seen that Old Conk’s ignorance is far greater than the most ignorant of ail the fishermen. Now Mr. Edi- tor, in anciher paper oi yours, it was stated that two tiny gizard -doctors were sold for 20c.5.,Ifirmiy believe ilhis statemoent 1o be perfectly untrue and call upon yu o prove it, if notl will be forced to charge your paper with publishing falsechcods. - You ought to be sure, that th se statewments, which most likely :wre 2iven you by some of your colleagues who profess to know much but in reality know little beyond their daily work. You ought to prove and cor- rect before you publish false assertiins and insulting unoffending persons and misleading tlie public in general. Whiie thanking for spaceI cannot omit advising you in the future not to be so easily misled; we know a thing or two of the shore although we are on sea often, Christiansted, 3St. Croix, V. 1., March 22nd 1920. PHILIP K. G TUTEIN. Fisherman. TELEGRAMS : ST. CROIX STA lION. ® London, ‘t:arch 10th.—Mr. Asquith spoke scarhingly last night of Irish conditions before the Eighty Club. Nev- er, in the memory of the oldest club member, he said, had the method of government in Ireland been so re-action- ary, or the denial of the elemeatary principles of Ireland’s political liberties so complete, so defiant and so insolent as odday, and he charged that a very jarge portion of crime in Irelani was due to the seuseless policy of the pre- sent Govt. While he and the Liberal Party were pledg:d to apply coercion to Ulsier, they were equally pledged to the Home Kule Act now in statute books and he would think himselt more than a traitor if he asked .he Irish pecple to accept any form of self-government less =k L. EKEtpeX 2oy )8 than was contained in gthat Act. The great obstacie to fran? and friendly co-operation between Great Britain and the United States, he asserted was Bri tain’s failure to apply to Ireland the princivles they had both agreed on at the Peace Conference. Referring to Turkey the ex-Premier said that the rnassacre in Cilicia ought to be the last chapter o’ Ottoman rule. Beltggt, M-rch lUth.—Sir Edward Carson in an address to an Ulster‘ggle- gation, which had just returned from a visit to Canada and the United States, said he had been kept informed of the movements of the mission throughout and had come to the conelusion that the whole of America, barring the hyphen- ated Irish, who are in a conspiracy with the hyphenated Germans, wsas con their side. Washington, March 15th.— Advices from Copenhagen state that an unofficial count in the second zone of Scnieswig shows §that in Flensburg 18,947 votes were cast tor Denmark and 26,911 for Germeany. 1i134 eountry distcicts about o Germian votes for each Danish vote were cast. Berlin, March 10th.—-Prince Joachim Albrecht, cousin of the former German Empercr and Captain von Platen, :re stili locked up in tl:e Mobite jail await- ing the final action of the court respect- Ing the legality of their avrest. Both disclaim responsibility for the attack in the hotel Adlon on the members of the French commission, but the State Attor- ney has confronted them with damaging evidence given by the dining room em- ployees and several guests whose corrobo- rative testimnony apparenily implicated the Prince and captain with those who began the assault. Count Maternich and an Austrian who sat uear the Prince’s table, charged Prince Joachim not only with shouting ‘‘throw out the swine,”” "‘kill the dogs if they refuse to go’’, but with throwing crockery and glassware at he French party, whereupon the other guests joined in the attack up- on Captain Klein and Troughebin. A certain Prince of Popenlope is charged with removing one of his boots and striking one of the Frenchmen with it. Ge er | Noliet, head of the French mis- sion, has forwarded areport io Paris ir which Prince Joachim is primarily blamed for the attack. : London, March 11th. - It was statedi the House of Commons today that the warship ‘‘Stedfast’’ had been fired upor in the Black Sea by German guards and been struck by a sixty pound shell. No details have yet b en received of casual- ties or damage. Portsmouth, England, March Ilth. The Prince of Wales will start on his trip to Australia on Tuesday ndqkt. Belfast, March 11th.—The Uxfer Uni- onist Council decided yesterday in favour of the six Ulster couniries being con- trolled by an Ulster Parliament should the new Home Rule Bill be enacted. The council aiso declined to accept any respon- sibility in regard to the bill and it is un- derstood they will make no attempts to defeat it. Belfast, March 11th.—Sir Edward Carson in the course of a speech yes- terday said that if the present Home Rule Bill was passed and Ulster won they would be lucky in getting without fightiug what they had covenanted to fight for. If the bill had included the whole of Ulster they would h ve op- posed it tooth and nail, then if rejected, the 1914 act would come into force and they would have a Home Rule Pariia- ment in Dublin. - (Delayed in transmission.) New York, March 11th.—The United States Shipping Board showed a profit of 166,483,990 dollars to June 20th last, according to a statement by Chairman Paine before the Senate Committee. He said that the Government should get out of the shipping business and stay out. London, March 11th.—It was stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the earnings of controlled ships had ex- ceeded the estimate by fifty-four mil- lion pounds, and with the surplus from the dominions and Ailies of seven mil- lions, there was an excess total of siXty- one millions. London, March 11th.--Sir George Pais», speaking before the National Financial Commission, said that friend- ship with the United States must be the cornerstone of our policy. We must take down our tariff walls, admit Amer- ican goods into the Empire on the same terms as we have admitted goods produced within the Empire. London, March 11th.—Empire cotton. growing on a eommercial basis, almost immediately is foreshadowed from a meeting held yesterday in the House of Commons, which was attended by some Lancashire members of the House and persons financially in the cotton trade. According to the Manchester Guardian a suggestion was approved that Lanca- shire capitalists should provide fifteen millions sterling for commercial develop- ment to be invested in cotton growing in a selected colony or colonies, and that reasonable facilities by road and rail be provided by the colonies where cotton is grown. The meeting adjourmed for a week, in order that inquiry might be made into the praciicability of Lancashire providing the sum named. The Guardian says it is believed the money will readily be forthcoming. iondon, March 11th.—-A despateh to the Times says that acccording tc ad- vices ‘received in Cairo irom Beirut, Prince Feisul, son of the King of Hed- jas, has been proclaimed King, of Syria. Prais, March 20th.—A Hava’s despatch from Berlin states that the fighting at Kiel has ended. The Bauar Goverament has been appointed with a committee representing the left party.