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ST Lll X ANV CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 8.15. MONDAY EV NING 8.15 ENDING OF THE GREAT PARAMOUNT DETECTIVE SERIAL “Who lls Number One” Bpisode 13: “‘CORNERED’’ ¢ Episode 14: '‘NO SURRENDER" Episodels: ‘THE T1" These three last Episodes are worth seeing !! Show ends with a Jolly Comic “FATTY ARBUCKLE” BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY. ADMIBSIUN B Bt e e s Se A Geie 8l Eiitrance ... ... .. .. e s e ee Children 20 and 10c. iLOCAL. We have been asked to mention that the Native Brass Band. will give a con- cert on the Wharf tomorrow evening. In this issue we publish an advertise- ment of the West End Movies at which there will be staged this evening in Fred- eriksted a cine exhibition to be followed by boxing contests between loral pugi- lists and at which Mr. Bonaparte will mest anyone who will stand before him after undeigoing the exercises incident to training, a prize of §5 being offered to the person taking up the challenge. It is regretted that the advertisement reached us too late for yester ay’s issue in which it was intended to appear. According to a notice issued by the postmaster at Frederiksted the mail-car for Christiansted will leave his office at 2 p. m on Saturdays, matter posted after that hour being forwarded by return of trip carrying Christiansted overseas mail. It is requested that the public be re- minded that the post office will be closed at 4p. m. today as per previous notice explaining reasons therefor. Mr. R. A. Sylvis has established an automobile garage and repair shop at No. 5 Hospital Street in this town. Mr. Sylvis is a competent autowobile man and is qualified to give good service in the line he has entered. The S. S.. Guiana for New York due Frederiksted Tuesday morning 6 o’clock. All passengers for St. Thomas and the States must secure their tickets not later than Monday 24th inst. # TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Washington, Oct. 19th—Belief that the British Government and its repre- sentatives 4t tae armament conference will work togerher with the ocher nations to reduce’’ the burden of armaments, through the diminishing possible causes of war,”> was expressed by Presi- dent Harding yesterday in a cablegram to King George The President’s cable- gram was in reply (o one received from the King yesterday, in which the British Ruler expressed his appreciacion of the bestowal of the United States medal of honour on Britain’s unknown warrior. London, Oct, 19th —A committee of the Sinn Fein and British delegates to the Irish conterence, which has been holding sessions here for the past week met at the Colonial Office yesterday to consider facilities that should' be given the British air force in case an agree- meunt should be reached on the Irish question. Wh:n Mr. Liloyd George made the original proposal on this subject the terms of which was the necessity of the air force having certain privileges in Ireland the Sinn Fein officials strongly objected, but it is understood they have since modified their views regarding the proposals with the result that the delegates yesterday met Mr. Churchill, Mr. Frederick Augest, Major Genl. Tren- chard, Sir Laming Wothington- Evans and others interested in the air force, to discuss the matter. News from Ireland today tended to saow that the Sinn Fein is intensifying its boycott against Belfast goods, despite the truce. Several large shops accused of selling such goods are being picketed it was reported. London, Oct. 19th.—Reviewing aru- moir that Great Britain is preparinga new naval base in the South Pacific, the ““Daily Sketeh’ says it is intended to spend £2,000,000 in converting Singapore into a first class station, while an alter- nalive base of less importance is to be created 1n Australia. The ‘‘Sketch”’ adds that if an agreement 18 reached at the Washington conferznce, the ar- rangement can be ~ountermanded. The newspaper further says that the Bermu- da’s are also to be converted into a first class base,”” which suggests cooperation with the United States. London, Oct. 19th.—Lord Robert Cecil, in opening yesterday a natinnal campaign in behalf of funds for the League of Nations Union, announced that Lord Cowdray had piromised to contribute 50,000 pounds. He read a letter from the Marquis of Landsdowne strongly advocating arbitration in international disputes, instead of resorting to force. Viscount Grey, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs, spoke in support of the League of Nations and congratulated the British and ¥rench Premiers for having resoried to the League in the Silesian deadlcck. It the League solved that question, he said, it would achieve a great riumph. Waskington, Oct. 19'h-—The Senate last night ratified the treaty. of peace with Germany with the reservations re- ported by the gforeign relations com- mittee. The vote was 66 for ratifica- tion to 20 against, or more than the necessary two thirds majority. Four- t<en Democratic Senators voted in fa- vour of ratification and two Republican Senators, Mr. Borah of Idaho and Mr. Latollette of Wisconsin, voted against it. A third republican Senator, Mr. Norris ot Nebraska who was absent on account of sickness was paired against the treaty, soon afterwards tke Senate ratified, the peace treaty with Austria by the same vote. Another and simi- lar Peace Treaty with Hungary also was ratified compieting the administra- (tlons imediate peace programme with the former central powers. London, Oect. 19th. The Munich cor- respondent of the Times is informed by an unnamed expert that the Germans have perfected a triple barrelled machine gun, electrically operated, weighing some twenty two lbs,, and capable of spraying two thousand rounds per min- ate in a complete circle. I'ne three bar- rels couli be operated by a gunner one and a half mile distant. This is cited as instancing how German industries are devising engines of war, and the corres- pondent farther declared that chemists are conducting researches into poisonous gases an‘ bacteriological possibilities of. destruction. The correspondent asserts he has heard the convietion expressed by ‘‘more than one authority’’ that the