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EOCAL. The S:'S. Marina arrived here on Szt- urday, landed mails and passenzers, and sailed for Frederiksted ai 2 p. m., from where she sailed for Porto Rico via St. Thomas at 1.00 p. m. yesterdav. The Raporel S.S. Bridgetown called at this port yesterday, landed a small quantity of cargo, and one bag of mail, and sailed for the islands in the after- noon. ; American schooner ‘‘Zurah” with cargo of salt and two bags mail arrived here from Antigua yesterday. ; The Creole sustained some damage-to her s:ils in the rough weather of last Thursday and was force® to put in to Frederiksted. She arrived here on Sat- urdry and is expected to be ready to sail for St. Thomas tomorrow evening. Patrons of the theatre should not fail to note the programme for this evening’s show. Turn out in large numbers and emphasize your preference for the Maon- day night performances which are un- doubtedly wnat the majority like best. <Football. The football mateh played yesterday on the Oval, Frederiksted, between the Merry Juvenile Club of this town and a picked elevan of the St. Patrick’s Club was won by the West End team, the score being two goals to one. The Fred- eriksted players were, however, grown up young men aud the tcams were, there- fore, unequally matched. the Christian- sted Club being composed of boys 14 to 15 years of age who were nevertheless too sportsmaniike and game to bhack out af- ter they reached the ground and found the odds against them. ‘ TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Paris. Feb. 20th.—The British Govt. has conditionally accepted the French proposal to allow the Reparations Com- mission to deal with the German reply regarding reparation payments this year aad reformation of the German finance it was stated. The vrincipal reservation made by tae British is that the contribu- tion of the German reply is referred back to the Reparations Commission. A meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Allies to settle this question is awaiting cnly the formation of the new Italian ministry. The Govt. is willingto leave the entire question of organizing the In- ternatinnal economic conference at Genoa to the League of Nations, it was said this morning by a high official with referenee to a report from London that idea was gaining ground. The Frenche a T LLLIX AVis representatives at the Cannes confer- onee, at which the Genoa meeting wag decided upon had -advocated the coopera- tion.of the League of Nations in the ar- rangements for: the ‘economic conference this official said, %nd the idea had been abandoned only.bßcause the presence of representatives of the United States was hoped for and complications were feared if the conference were organizad by the League. London, Feb. 20th. —Labour scored another big victory at the polls today when the labour eandidate C. C. Ammon ciptured the seat for the North division of Camberwell. He polled 7,854, against 6,719 for the conservative Mellor in the Bye-election. The last election in this constitucney was in 1918, when the coalition unionist potled 6,910, the liber- als 2,777 and labour 2,175. Paris, Feb. 21st.—Louis P. Loucheur Ex-Minister ;of Liberated Regions de- clared last night it was his belief that France never would be able to pay a sou of her debt to the United States. This statement was. made at Lyons at a banquet of the Industrial Commercial and Agricultural Associations. ‘I say plainly that I believe'we never will be able to pay a sou to America. I say it because there aré Americans here who 1hope will cable mv werds across the sea we never can pay the fifteen billion francs we owe America with the added interest. America has all the goid and we could never pay in gools on ac- count of the customs barriers raisad by the [Tnited States itself’’, he said. He added that Mr. Lloyd George had agreed in principle to cancel France’s debt to Great Britain on condition that the Uni- ted States cancel Great Britain’s debt. Referri~g to the question of rdparations M. Loucheur said France was determined to make Germany pay to the utmost. Londou, Febh. 21st.—Reuters Johan- nesburg Correspondent cables that the strike of the coal miners and the staff of the electric station at Vereenining was broken today by the return of as many strikers as were wanted tc the Cornelia colliery and of thirty-one of the operat- ing staff to the Victoria Falls power station. There has also been a resump- tion of work in the brick tile industry. The position of the gold fields strike is unchanged, except for a slight increase in the number of men who have returned to work. Norfolk, Va., Feb.2lst. Thirty four men were killed, eight were injured seriously and three were uninjured, or only slightly bruised, when the army =irship Roma, with her ecrew aod a number of civilians totalling 45 in all aboard, plunged today from a thousand feet or more from the air to the ground at the Hampton Roads Naval Base. The airship capsized across a high tension electric line and burst into a rvolling furnace of blazing hydrogen gas. Long after dark tonight, maay hours after her fall, the ship was still a mass of flames from end to end. The fire feeding an the million cubie feet of gas that had distended the great bag for the flight. Barely a dozen of more than two score men aboard had been picked up alive. Oae died enroute to a hospita!. All of those who survived the fire es- caped by jumping as the ship struck the others, pinned in the hull beneath th fallen bag were burned to death. The heat of the fire fought back the rescue:s for hours. Washington, Feb. 21st.—The accident to the Roma oceurred wken the vertical controls were carried away, Captain Doyle of the N val Station at Hampten Road said in a telephone conversation la = today with Rear Admiral Mofiett at the Navy Department. This he said caused the dirigible to dive nose first aod iniis deseent it struck a high tension electric wire, causing the ship to cateh fire. Cav- tain Doyle reported that thirty eight were believed dead and that ten or twelve had escaped. Belfast, Feb. 21st.—While the great mzajority of the Unionists captured in the recent raids in Northern Ireland have been released, the Ulster Homo Office announced today that 26 of tue kidnapped men had not yet been lie- tarned. Os these men apparently stiil held in custody, 14 are class A special constable and eleven class B speciais. The other missing man is Ivan Carson, former High Sheriff of Fermanagh, wiio was kidnapped at Clady or February Bth. Mr. Carson’s wife received a letter frow him the following day stating he was well, but not revealing the place of his detention. Sydney, Feb. 21st.—It was reported here today that plans are maturing for a world wide cooperative wheat marketing organization which will eveatually con- trol the Canadian, United States and Australian ecrops. The Chairman of the wheat poll, is proceeding to London and thence will go te fCanada and the United States to consult with jthe organizations in those countries concerning the plan. London, Feb. 21st.—Speakiog at Not- tingham tonight Sir John Simon, who was a member of the Asquith Ministry, said the shadow of death was resting upon the House of Commons and most of its members were gloomily preparing like condemned men to be taken back tc the place from whence they came. London, Feb. 21st.—Twenty-five mil- lion pounds sterling will be provided ifor in the next budget estimates to cover six months interest on *the debt to the Uni- ted States. This announcement wus made in today’s parliamentary papers. It is pointed out that 25,000,000 will not necessarily be the maximum amount pay- able in interest to the TTnited States dur- ing the next financial year. Dublin, Feb. 21st.—Tke French Gov- ernment today jinformed Germany that it had requested Italy to postpone the econcmic conference at Genoa, for the