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. LOCA'.. The Creole has not yet putin anap- pearance. The wind is favorable and probably she is not far out. The 8. S. *‘Parima”” for New York lis due at Frederiksted six o’clock 31nday morning. The attention of readers is invited to the snappy program for tonight’s show at the theatre. Here is an opportunity for those who appreciate the one night drama to indulge. Two shiploads of cattle lefr bere for Porto Rico yesterday. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. “aris. April 14th.—France’s attitude, if disarmament question is brought for- d at Genoa. will be to demand that question be referred to the League lations which has had it under consid- ion for several months, it was stated n official note issued today. This cude it is explained, is in conformity ith the agreement reached with Great Britain at Boulogne, and is in line with the Govts. memorandum on the Genoa agenda which the French Parliament unanimously approved, the Cabinet main- taining its previous decision. If this de- ma. for rzference to the Leacue was not » ~pted, the French delegation, the, note st ed, would not take part in the debate, & Sir Robert Horne of the Brit- ish delegation in Genoa has declared, having been excluded from the program- me for the conference. Paris, April 14th. -The Nationalist agitation in Tunis on the eve of the visit of President Millerand, who is due here toward the end of the month, is attract- ing considerable attention, although up to the present time it has not developed any great forces. The Communists have joined the Nationalists in the agitation, but it is said in official circles that the number of persons engaged in it does not exceed five or six hundred. The abdica- tion of the Bey has been reported and denied several times. It is now reaffirm- ed by a Frenchman, M. Fabre, who was expelled from Tunis and who declared the partisans of the Bey presented 21 demands for reforms to the French au- thorities, the Bey abdicating when no satisfaction was given To this report also an official dental ha~" been given. Ottawa, April 14th<z—-Just what date M:. Fielding will choose to deliver his budget speech is still a matter of con- jecture, but a statemeut issued from the office of the minister this afternoon advised all those wishing to make ve- presentations in relation to the tariff to do so at once. Mr. _Fielding, while declining to make any *atement of the Srl. CRU i X :3 VIS date for the delivery of the speech, says he will be unable to make appointments or receive deputations in relation O the tariff after Saturday April 2203 the end of the coming week. Washington, April 14th. —Legisiation providing long term credits for farme:s, reduction of railroad rates, adeguate tarif protecticn for agriculcural produce- tions and devzlopment of the musle shoals Alabama projects as a fertilizer producer, were announced to the Senate today by Senator Capper, Repubiican, Kansas, as among the objectives oftthe agricultural bloc Washington, April 14th. —Former bloc members hav: been assured of th2 sup- port of a number of soutbern democrats in both Houses in getting thewr high tariff programme through Congress. Thesz democrats r2present what is de- clared to be increasing protection senti- ment in the south. In view of this sup- port, bloc members declare thereis not the slightest doubt that the high rlcs “which they demand on whealy grains geperally, live stock and olher farm pro- ducts, will be enacted, despite a orowing protest from the great centyes of poptila- tion where consumers fear they will be hard bit. Dublin, April 14th, —Eariy this morn- ing the pizgest coup yet effecied by the anti-treaty party was earried out. Some three hundred arme} men, marching in +wo forees, seized th: Four Courts build- ing formerly the seat of the Nationa} Court of Justice, and the Kouy Courts Hote! nearby. No apposition was en- countered. Fwo or three eonstables on duty were arrested, but were liberated later. Guests at the hotel were ejected and the two biildings were fortified, passers by being pressed 30.. > Flline sand bags and pilinz up sacks ot books and documents. The seizure was réminiscent of Easter week 1918, when the same buildings were seized and similarly fortified. Great alarm was eaused in Dublin when the events of the early morning became known, lasting aniil the explanation was vouchsafed by the anti-tceaty men that the buildings had been taken because they were more fitted for their headquarters than the present headquarters in Rutland Sguare. This explanation however failed to re- assure many people, who are apprehen- sive that the adjournment of yesterday’s peace conference may prove significant, especially as it is alleged that the inde- pendents gave no_guarantees that aets of violence would be avoided. Com- mandznt O’Connor reiterated tonight his assurance that there would be no revolu- tion and that the only reason for the seizures was that the Rutland Square premises were far too small for head- quarters. Four hundred men occupied the seized buildings tonight, many of them baving come in the course of the day’ from country districts in cars and lorries. A van load of bread was seizad ic the strest f-:*;.-;/éw us> of the acen- pants. Stropg - "ards have boen posted outside the gruit. Lhe Provisicnal and B-itish aut¥rities in Dublin Castle were notified ofthe seizure. bat up to tonight no action had been taken. > ““ast. April 14tb.—The Ulster Par- liament adjourned yesterday to May 16th Finance Minister Polloek, ip making the motion to adjourn, expressed pleasure taat the recent agreement reached ip Ipndon betwezn the Northern and South- ern leaders had brought about eompara- tive peace. He added, bowever, that the Ulstey Govt bad taken the necessary Lre- ecantions 0 meet any emergency that micht arise along the border. (Genoa, April 14th.—The dispute over the Bessarabia which has eptercd na secondary way into the ecopomic econiey- ence discussions, was taken up todayg Caristian Rakovsky of the Soviet ciffa- tion. In an interview he repied 1o sfate- ments yesterday of Foreign Mi196 Dia- manday of Rumania who set forth Ru- mania’s claim to Bessarabia declaring this territory has always belonged to Ru- mania until 1878 when she had ceded it t 9 Russia, her ally, for help given in war- time. It was quite true said M. Rakov- s<y today, that the Imperial Regime took o sov in 1875 ¢orinin departments of Bes- sarabia bot not the entire region. bl. Diamanday had forgot.en, however, the Russian delegate d2clared, that Rumaaia recaived the Provinee of Dobrudja in exchange and alse that the Bessa- rabia» departments in question had be- lonced to Russia Until 1854, when aiter the Crimean war, they were annexed to Rumania. Aceording to Ra- kovsky the question today is whether the peopie of Bessarabia wish to jo.B Rungania. The Bessarabian peasants, he pointed cut, I®ld a econgress in Ki- shinev in 1918, during which hostility was expressed for Rumania, which had occupied Bassarabia under the guarantee of the Entente, ‘‘which we possess iz writing that the application was only provisory’’. In addition, Rumania, Ra- kovsky said had concluded in March 1918, a treaty with Russia promising to evacuate Bessarabia within two monibs. Russia, declared Rakovsky,, favon‘? self-determination for the Bessarablan people and if in a plebiscite, properly and frecly erganized, the Bessarabian peopie showed their desire for Rumania, the de- eision would be readily acquieseed in by Russia. Genoa Apri! 14th.—Europes financial tangle was brought to the front for consideration at today’s session of the Genoa Conference, further discussion of Russian affairs having been postponed until fomorrow. Sir Basil Blackett, Con- troller of Finance of the British Treasury called his special consultative committee of financial experts together hoping to solve the basis for a preliminary report to the financial committee of the conference tomorrow. This special committee, ‘