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Quite a large audience attended the show of last night. “Many persons do not seem to have teen the pointin it, and others think it was not so aftractive as had been expected. - For our part, it appeared to be full of life and as catchy as any seen in a long while. ‘ ‘ Rumeor says the Food Commission is to be abolished. This means, of course, that dealers will have a free hand to ask any prices they feel. Alre dy the laborer is paying almost 26% of his wages for a pound of sugar, and pretty soon with - prospects of no Food Control we may all be driven to the wall in the desperate struggle to secure the necessaries of life. It will be interesting to keep the old price list of the Food Commission and note the prompt shoot in prices =s soon as the restrictions are removed. While the commission is greatly handi- cayped, it is a fact that it helps to govern ! prices of the articles that can be got. Korona sailed for the islands at mid- night last night. We are glad to announce that Mr. Th. Zeilau, ‘well known to many, having served as lieutenant here during the Dan’sh regime, has been attached to the Danish Embassy in Christiania, Nar. way.— West End News, June 3rd. Mr. . Carbel, once principal of the St. Croix High School here, has been ap- pointed Danish Consul of Buenos Aires,. Argentine, where he is sojourning since his departure from our shores. -Ibid. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. De ayed In Transmission. Paris, May 30th.-—-The Chamber of (Commerce of this city has called the at- tention of the Minister of Commerce to the necessity for amending the law pro- hibiting the importation of certain ar- ticles. Helsingfors, May 380th.—The Soviet Government has accepted the nepotia- tiorés for peace between Russia and Fin- land. Paris, May 30th.—The ‘‘Matin’’ an- nounces that Peesident Deschanel, who took an -automobile drive yesterday, is not suffering as a consequence of his ac- cident, but from his previous indisposi- tion, and that he will leave Paris next week for the country. He will preside on Tuesday at a council of ministers. Paris, May 30th.--At a a meeting of unions in the Orleans system it was de- cided, after an examination of the situa- tion, to order the immediate resumuvtion of work. Madrid, May 30th.—Normal conditions have been restored, only the maso .s now continuing the strike. At Valencia a 51. CRy.LX%A VlB factory for the manufacture of bombs has been discovered.- SR Rome May 30th.—A Government plan, relative to the conferring of power on the . responsible execytive, stipulates that ev- ery declartion of ‘war, except in urgent cases, must first be approved by the Chamber, and that the putting into oper- ations of all treaties, even commercial ones, shall be effected only after ratifica- Won by Parliamient. Also that amy terri-. torial change must te made the subject, of a law. Ly E Vienna May 30th. —Dr.* Renner, the Chancellor, in 4an interview declared that the debates in the English and French Parliaments, relative to the ratification of the Austrian trea‘y, proved that Eng- land and Franee had confidence in Aus- tria and that Frarce is endeavoring to. reacha rapprochement with her. Paris May 380th, —lmposing Franco- American ceremonies marked the comme- moration of Memorial Day in the Ameri- can cemeteries inFrance, no.ably at Sur- esness'and Chateau Thierry, at the grave: ol the American soldiers who fell . during the war. During the- ceremony at Suresnes Mr. Wallace, the Ameri- can Ambassador, declared that the United States, in.intervening in the con- flict, wished to'.destrny an evil power and establish a lasting peace, the great and ieal obstacles to which are anarchy and idleness. ‘‘The peace we won and which we will maintain, is a peace of justice and ordar’’, he declared. He expressed the recognition of the United States for the participation of France in the commemoration, to which Marshal Petain, replying render~d the homage of the ¥rench Government to the Amer- cans who had died in the war. At other places processipns were formed and placed flowers on the graves of t ose who had given their lives in the caise of civilization. T'he newspapers publish many speeches, notably those of Mr. Wallace, Marshal Petain, General Man- gin and Major Parker, the latter declar- ing that if ever war broke out again American would be found at the side of France from the first days. Paris, May 3lst.--A Turkish delega- tion has addressed a note to the peace conference asking for an extension, until . the eleventh July, of the time for presenting Turkey’s observations on the treaty. ; ; Paris, May 3lst.. -The ‘‘Temps’’ re- ports the arrival in Paris of Professor Struve, a delegate from General Wrangel, the successor of General Denekine. General Wrangel is said to command seventy thousand men in the Crim:a and to have formed an anti-Soviet Govern- ment. Berlin May 31st. —At a meeting of the majority socialists par.y Herr Muller, the chancellor, in a speech declared that the treaty of Versailles enchains the German people, who will soon prove that Germany is satiated with war for all time and is anxious to-eater alearue of nations wor- thy of the name. : - Paris, May 31st.—The ‘‘Journal”’ pub- lishes a Hava’s despateh from Berlin -stating that a concentration of troops at Porsdsm appears to presage a new coup .d’etat. e NEW YORrRK. May 29nd 1920 Flour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence I-ran s : pr. orl. $14.00 Meal, Kilndried per 100 ibs $4.45 New Season’s Pork per brl. $43.00 - Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $42.00 ‘Sugar---Crystals maximum spot per 100 Lo ' tbs. $23.57. Molasses: Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Meotton, Middling Upiand, at Liverpool 3 per lb. 26 10--1004, rxchange, New York and London, 60 : iy { days’ sight $3.85 Exchange New York and London, sight g . $3 88 LONDON, May 29nd 1920. Sugar-Demerara ('rystals, (free of Govt. - trol) duty paid per ¢wt. 1455. od. 150s. od. Sugar Muscovado, (free of Govt. control price for May)duty paid per ewt. 1425. 9d. German Beet 88°/. f.o.b. no sales White Java sugar cif United Kingdom 120s. od.—os. od. Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. -I'rinidad -Cocoa, Good Middling Red per cwt 1355. : Uotto = Medium Fine Sea Island, at lav erpool per Ib. nominal . Bank of England rate of Discount per cent. 7.- Consols 47%. Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes. 56.75. Moseovado Govt. controlled price for May duty paid 1375. 9d. Moscovado free of Govt. control duty paid 110s. od. 120s. od. TURKISH SITUATION VERY GRAVE. There has been nu more disheartening result of the Peace Conference than the failure of the Allies to settle the I'urkish problem. Who would have thought a vear ago that the Allied High Commis- sioner in Constantinople would be de: claring that it is not the desire of the Allies to destroy the Sultan, but rather to increase his power! That power has been used for evil for hundreds of years past. When at last the Turk hasybeen beaten to his knees and had to accept any conditions of peace that -sere offer- ed to him we find the representatives of the Allies throwing away their advan- tage and prepared to re-establish Turkey as the strongest power in the Near East. There are two reasons advanced as an explanation for the abject spectacle we see in Turkey today. 'l'he first is that because of the failure of the United States to accept responsibility for con- troling the Turkish Kmpire, the Allies are not in a positionto do so. The other reason is that supposing jealousies be- tween Britain and France make it im-