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. .- LOCAL. L The Creole arrived hese at® 10.15a. m. | . Wednesday and returned to Si.. Thomas ‘atBa. m. yesterday.- & : Among the passengers who srri-vea here on Wednesday was Mr. Thos. sAsh, newly appointed principal of the ‘St. Croix Graded Grammar School. We welcome Mr. Ash’sreturn home ‘and - wish him all suce=sß in the resump:ion of his old calling. : . : Cable from San Juan, P..R. reports fire abdard the S. S. Philadelphia ard mail damaged. See paragraph elsewhere in this issue, o " The B.°S. Korona from Nzw York vii St. Thomas is expected in . Frederiksted tOmMorTow. ; 5 Thanksgiving Day was almost as-quiet as Sunday. There was no enlivenment whatever exeept some masgquerading in the aftornoom:. . PELEGRAM:;- B CROIX"STAT‘ION. Geneva, November 20th: —Aun inter- national military force with .an intef- national staff was proposed to the assem- bly of the League of Nations today by Senator Henri La Fontaingof Beigian _delegation. Senator LaFomtaine some- “.what startled the Assembly;by. declaring that the world was not yet ready. for pdisarmament. "'t-is necessary. to say “frankly to the people, he said,. '‘that %}\)e time for disarmameni has .got. yet ‘eome’’. Before the world could, dis- arm, he added, ¢atirely different ideag than those that prevailed ozfore the war must be inculcated aad applied He proposed that the disarmament and ar- mies be compressed in an iaiernational staff- ready to be used “in the cause of right in such a casc as arose from the present situation of Armenia’’. 4 Geneva, Nov. 20th. —The first formal step looking. toward the revision of the covenant of the League of Nations was taken by the Assembly of tne League at today’s session. The Duteh Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Van Karnabeek introduced a resolution for reconsidera- tion of article XV, having to do with registration df treaties. The resolution provides that the re-consideration be conducted cither by the Assembly itself or by a committee to make the meaning of the article elear. Dr. Karnabeek first called attention ‘to this article of the covenant at vesterday’s session, and said there were several -interpretations of the article whieh, in brief, provides that treaties between . nations shalli not be binding untii they are registered -with the League, and proposed that it be studied carefully with a view to its elari- fieation. The text” of Article XV, reads: ST CRDIX A NMid “‘Every treaty of international angage ment entered into hereafter by any ‘members of the League shall be forth- with registered with the Secretariat and shall a&’soon a8 possible be published by it. 'No such'treaty or international-en- gagement shalt be binding until so regis- tered’’. be g * Geneva, Nov. 21st.—The responsibili- ties of the League of Nations and the re- . sponsibility of itsindividual members un- “der article X of the Covenantis one gues- tion the Committee ‘on admission’ of new 7 members is econsidering in conneetion with the avplication 02.’4‘ states, no¥ in cluding Germany. These applications are in the hands of ‘sub-committees. They are, Finiand, Bsthonia, Letvia; Liths uania and Luxemvurg, reservedto sub- committees presided over by M. Poullet. Austria, Bulgaiia, Albania and Lichten- stein referred to sub-committees presided over by .Uord Robert Cecil, and Georgia Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Cos- ta Rica to sub-committees presided over by Dr. F'ridtjof Naisen of Norway.- De- sides respopsibilities under Article X, the committees wiil consider M respect to each application the [ollowing ques- tions: “An application in order: is the Governmrent "applying * recognized -'de jure”’or "“de facto” ?.and by which, states? -Has the applicant nation a2 sia- ble governmen: and settled frontier? What is its size and population 7 * Is 1t gets goverping? ‘Nhat hras been its con- /duct includiag: both "acts and assurances “with regard ‘to its international obliga- tions 7 The ‘latter question is supposed to have been inspired by the French _member of the ‘Committee;, M. Viviani, with a view toany propusition that may. be submittedto clect Germany. The preseriptions of the¢ League as to arma- ments will also be considered with*the , militacy power oi each appiication. In the opinion of the delegations the first weeks work of the Assembiy has been satisfactorily accomplished, ev:n more so than could have been expected, as the conference has got beyund the chaotic period oforganization. » - " Paris, Nov. 21st.—The ''Temps™ in a leading editorial today warns France and Great Britain that, with the rapidity with which the new Greek Govt. is acting, the Allies willfindthemselves ‘‘ir the face of a series of acecomplished facts’’. To speak frankly, the newspaper adds, the French publie does not understand how the Fra.- co-British negotiations can be delay- ed by the regrettable ingisposition of Farl Curzon.ef Kedleston, -the British Foreign Secretary, and ho-wv at the same time a British Admiral’ can be talking with former King Constantine at Lu- cerne. The *!'Temps’’ reminds- the A- llies that the‘restoration has been accom- plishe . by ‘the naming of the Queen Mother Olga as Regent of Greece and her issuance of a proclamaticn and instruc- tions to the Government for the courts to act in the name cos the ex-King Con- siantine. [t points. out that the plebis- cite in Greece favoured the former King and that tne new Chamber of Deputies will ratify the-Sevre’s treaty;: thereby . binding the signatories under article X of the League of Nations. e - The Hague, Nov. 2lst.—The condition of the ex-Empress Augusta Vietorig of (t:ermany grows ‘increasingzly sericus. Prince Adalbert and his wife arrived -at Doorn Castle today. The temperature o7 the patient was - announced today as 104 and it was said she was very wezak. ddr. Vandenbergh, a ‘heart specialist of keiden, is being rushed to the bedsidz of the former Empress. . : i:ondon, Nov. 21st.—Mr. desse Col- linsg, ex-Liberal Unionist. member ofPar- liament for Birmingham, died vester- day at ldgbaston, Birmingham. He was born in 1831, . : : / London, Nov. 21st.--Lord Glenconner. _Lord High Commissian: to the generai assembly of the Church of “Scotiand, died here tonight before he was elevated to the peerage he was Edward Priaul:: Tennant. He was brother in law to ex Premier Asquith. . : M © New. York, Nevember 19th.-—Prices in both the raw ‘and refined markets broke -again’ vestérday -into new low ground for the year. The offerings of var ous vaw sugars greatly exceeded refiners’ demands and: the situation has bean developed into one in favour ?t the buy- ers. Local refining .interesid show only ‘oceasional. interest in offerings of verv nearby sugars not: being disposed to buv ahead owing to the very slow movement of their refined product ‘Dublin, Nov. 21st. --Thirty persons are repirted to pave been killed and many injured i a parnic¢ whea ‘'Biack and Tans”” invaded a feootball mateh te-dav and fired on the crowds while the Tip- perary Team was playing against the Dublin Team in.Croker Park in‘the pres- ence of 15,000 spectators. ‘‘Blackand Tans’’ entered in force by the two gates and aftera scene ofwild confusion fired on the people. : : Dublin, Nov, 21st.—Shooting {began ir the streets just before midnight and 2 number of people are repsrted killad There 1s mueh military activity.” The ~casualties in Croker Park are semi-offi- cially given as 10 killed and 65 injured, 11 seriously. . r © Minneapolis, Nov. 2lst.—Marked de- clines were registered in the flour mar: ket here on Saturday, a reduetion of. 40 to 75 cents a barrel being made onfami- ly patents, making the rasge now $8.90 to §9.00.. vl e amnr i ~ London, Nov. 21st.— Although London had no municipal elections on November Ist, the resuit of the hye-election -in Easthamrk, a huge east London industrial municipality, yesterday showed a heavy defeat for-the Labour party, similar io that which occurred in other parts of the country. Seven vacancies were caused by the ejevation of ‘labour councillors to