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s 1 (RIX SCHOOL ATTENDAN * No. 6. Week Endirg e £O, 1921 ScHooL CLASS{PERCENTAGE Frederiksted®funior Higb Urban 99.56 Annaly Rural 98.46 Christiansted Junior High Urban 97.22 Christiansted Public ! 96.02 Diamond Rural 95.19 Friedensfeld - 94.16 “vrederiksted Public Urban 94.14 * Princesse Rural 92.10 r’s Ress . 74.52 LU THOMAS HOOL ATTENDANCE REPORT NoO. 6. Neek Ending September 16, 1921. ScHooL CLASS PERCENTAGE Senior High Urban 100.00 Sixth Grades o 99.66 Monroe Rural 99.02 Jefferson Urban 98.85 Washington - 98.54 Junior High - 98.09 Nisky Rural 98.06 Lincoln 98.04 Town J7.92 St John Roi.. 92.86 Madison o 92.31 EDITORIAL. iave information to the effect ‘hat erman Hedemann Sarauw, a na Frederiksted, and at present :t- --) the Navy Ba: .at St. Thomas, .« been awardeu a diploma of the sity Extersion Conservatory, Chi- -1., for advanced composition in It is with mueck pleasure we re= is additional step in the progress of the natives who shows parse- ice, 21d assiduity in his studies :h we trust will ever be crowned 1 the s ccess he has gained all along. aty cot gratulations. LOCAL. We are glad to welcome Fighting Bon- ey and his training partaers from Freder- sted. who has arrived at this town and ‘ive a treat of a performance on Fri- -vening at the Theatre where they e pleased to meet the Loecal Stars. + Programme in tomorrow’s issue. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. serlin, Qect.3rd.—The village of Los- eim near Malmedy, amid great popular joicing was restored to Germany yes- rday by the frontier commission. It declared that this action was taken cause of the unanimous desire of the villagers to rejoin the fatherland. EB i ROAN oMI Dublin, Oct. 3rd. —Th~ Sinn Fein dele" gation to the conference in London, be- ginning Oct. [lth. wnich w;!l explore the possibilities of the Irish situatinn with a view (0 a definitc seitlement, will leave Dublin next Mandav. it was announced here todav. Mr. De Valera wiil not be one of the Sinn Foin delezates and will not gu Lnadon in ermnzcion with the conferonce aceording to Desmond Fitz- geraid to the Sinn ein Minister of pro- poganda who made t e announcement rezarding the delegations departure. Budanesr Oct. 3rd. —A resoiurion was passed bv th> Cabinet council vesterday to comply with the ultimatum of the council i Ambassadors issued in 2aris on Sept. 23rd, 'instrueting Hungary to evacuate Burazenland,”” the council ex- pressed apprchension as to the exfent to which it would be abie to deal with the insurgents in West Hungar, . New York, Oct 3rd.—With the ma- jor league baseball season passed into history the eyes of the sporting world are turning towards the polo grounds. There on Wednesday the Giants and the Yanks will begin their struggle for the title of world’s cuampion. The National Ledacue champions finished the season with a defeat by iheir old rivals the Brooklyn Superbs yesterday, while the Yanks wound up by winaing from the Boston Red Sox. Pittsburg maintained seccnd place in the National League by a vietery over the St. Louis cardinal’s and the Louis Browns won third place in the American circuit by subduing the Detroit Tigers. Cleveland lost its final contest to Chicago. New York ™ °2+4.—The raw sugar market was "33 for nneon- irolled eentrifug: e CHDa'S with no sales repo. *ap {u- ture wera steadier on 2 and prices at midday wz2re aooat two uoints net higher. There appearedto be # “ittic better inquiry for retined sugar antl ear- ly prices were unchanged at 550 for fine granulated. Kefined futures were nominal. London. Oci. 3vrd —The Archbishop of Canterbury, as president of th: world alliance for promoting international friendship throughout the churches, has addressed a letter to the president of the nvatiopal councils in America, Eu- rove and Asia, appealing to all the Christian churches to set apart Sunday November 6th. as a day of prayer for the divine blessing on the Washington eonference on limitation o/ armaments and far eastern problems, beginuing November 11th.. Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 3rd.-- Af- ter more than fifty hours of recurrent earthquake shocks and almoest continuous tcembling, the seismie disturbances at Richfieid, Elsinore and Monroe, 120 miles south of Salt Lake City, have subsid- ed. Property damage at Elsinore and Monroe lis estimiated at more than SIOO,OOO. Svdney, N. 5,08 t 3rd.—Dr. A. Cal- der of Whitney Pier, who graduated two vears ago at an upperj Canadian college today received an offer of ap- pointment .as chiet’)aedical nfficer of the island of St. Vficent in the West Indies. The g - was sent by the Gov- ernor of St. & ucent through the Lieu- tenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Washington, Oct. Ist.—There are six- tynine, reported strikes in the Un ted State,al this time, a greater number th» existed simultaneously any (ime ¢ . iao war, Seeretary of Labour .Da- said yesterday The Secretary at Jbuted wage reduction as the causes .0 most cases, remarking tbai the buil” ing and garment trades weds wc par- ticular sources of ingustrial troubie. , London, Oet. lsé--—Sug‘ar in stock on the Ist. inst, was 112,000 tons. Last year 117,000 tons. f.ondon, Oect. 4th.—Mr. Lloyd George planred to leave 3airloch today after a holiday whiech was often interrupted by state business. Irish problems and the unempioyment situation were considered so frequentily by Mr. Lloyd George, that during much of the time he spent at Gairioch Lie has been as busy as 1f he had remained in London. The Prime Min- ister’s health is reported to have been improved by the air of the Scottish High- lands, but his physicion had forobidden him to address any public meetings for some time. Mr. Lloyd George however is so impressed with the gravity and ur- gency of the unemployment question, that he has decided, it was reported to- day, to lay before the public without de- lay information as to the important con f2rences he held -over the last week-end with finaneial, commercial and industrial experts. London Oect. 4th. T'he South Wales Coal Mine owriTis 4t a meeting yesterday at Cardiff de:ided to accept an invitation of th» Mines Department oi the Govt. to vefer to an arbitration board the dis- putess over the terms under which the subsidy was granted, to hasten the end of the recenr strike of coal miners. Un- der the Govts. interpretation of the terms, the mine owners are asked to pay £75.000 more in wages to the men. London, Oct. sth —Under the sliding scale adopted by a board of conciliatio and arbitration affecting the manutac- tured iron and steel trade of Norih Eng- land, wages will be redueed 25% imme- diately, making the total reductions since January 132§% The presert wage scale is 974% above the pre-war scale. The Viliiers Spelter Works at Swansea has reopened and is the oniy spelter wor..s in South Wales now operating. The management announced that wage reductions enabled the plant to resume operations. ‘ Rome, Oct. 4th. —Yhe marching of Jugo-Slav troops aiong the Albanian frontier, tor the occupation of strategi