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THE St. Croix Civil Rights Committee hereby invites the elect of Chris- tiansted to attend a meeti o be held in the building NO 19, KEN& STREET, AT 5 SHARP, THIS AFTERNOON, May 8, 1924. 2 Adrertisemment. THE St. Croix Civil Rights Committee hereby invites the electors of Fred- eriksted to attend a meeting to be helid in FRE'(‘%R[KSTED THEATRE, AT 8 O’CLOCK TO-NIGHT. May 8, 1924. ey Adwertisement, 1 IG eki LOCAL The s. s. "Guiana’”’ for New York is now dre at Irederiksted at 6 o’clock on Saturday morning instead of tomorrow morning as previously announced and in conseguence of which the mail by her wiil be closed in Christiansted Post Of- fice at 4 p. m. tomerrcw instead of this afternoon. The notice appearing on 4th page of this issue was printed betore this advise was received. The slcop Mizpah on the return trip from St. Thomas has not yet arrived. As regards the weekerd dispatch of mail to St. Thomas which should ordi- narily go forward by the 2. s. Catherine it is un<erstood that the vessel bringing over the mail from the steamer will be empioyed to carry the St. Thomas mail Any changes in the time of closing of same will be duly annovnced it is ad- vised. TELEGRA MS. ST. CROIX STATION. Ottawa, May sth.—Canada will take an active part in the appeal to be taken t» the higher United States courts in the matter of the right of the sanitary com- mission of Chicago to divert the Great Lake’s waterways. This is the most r-cent phase of the much discussed ques- tion, according to correspondence be: tween Ottawa and Washington, tabled by the Premier in the House of Com- mons today. The wvoluminous corres- pondence shows that Cunada’s protest against the diversion began in 1912, when the Duke of Conpnaught, then Gov- ernor-General, enlisted the help of the British Ambassador, the late Lord Bryce in presenting Canada’s case. A special committee of the United States Senate investigated. The Secreiary of War, Mr. Stimson, found against Chicago’s right to take water from the Great Lakes and divert it to the Gulf of Metvi- co in order to carry on sanitary and water power operations. The District Court of the United States later upheld this Government’s dictum. An appeal is to be taken shortly in the Supreme Court of the United States against the ST 101 X A YVIiE \ District Court’s findings, Canada wiil be . represented in this appeal. the date for - which has not been fiz d. Washington, May 4th.—- The Cuban Government has applied for the purchase of three million rounds of ammunition angrabout thirty machine-guns from the United States Government, for use in | suppression of the revolutionary uprising | in that Fountey. - ’ Washington, May 4th.—The United . States eruiser ‘'Cleveland’ hzs been or- dered from Havana to Frontera, Mexico, ~ to relieve the cruiser ““Tulsa’. Havana, May 4th.—Presicent Zayas -of Cuba has gone to the scene of the armed revolution to learn conditions. . The entire island is quiet, with the ex- . ception of the district around Cienfuegas ! and Trinidad, where several mincr en- . gagewnents oceurred on Saturday be- . tween th2 loyal forees and small rebel ' bands It is reported that the Cuban i Government has orderead a »>umber of | airplanes from private firms n the Uni- | ted States. ,‘ London, May 6th—A questicn was put | to the Secretar’ of State for the Chlonies . in the House yesterday, whether a rve- | port had beea received from the Govern- ' or of Jamaica regarding the use of his ' power to invoke the paramount import- . an’ clause of the constitution in connegtion with the vste of the elected members of . the Jamaican Executive Council to eus off .~ the salary of the managirg director of .~ the Government railway, what had been . the Seceretary’s reply? and whether he . would support the Governor in any ac- . tion tn protect the Managing Director | from the attacks made on him. The Mi- -1 nister, Mr. Thomas replied that he had | received a telegram from the Governor, | but he proposed to defer consideration of |~ the matter until he had received a full ! report. Replying to the supplemreniary | questions, Mr. Thomas ren arked that in | fairness to the officer concarned, all the | evidence tended to show ihal he was'a | most efficient and capable nan and that . nothing ought to be done te prejadice his . position until a tull report on toe situa- | tion had been received. ° hegGovernor, | Sir Leslie Probyn on May I.t directed the official membeors of the Jarnaica lLeg- islative Council to vote z2bcut 300,000 pounds as railway estimats, after the elec ed members of the Housc had wita- drawn. The elected members had vot- ed to strike out the salary paid the Man- | aging Director of the Government Line, | but the Governor put itthrouzh, under ; authority of the Paramount Importance I' Clause of the Constitution. Thte elected | members later gave out a statement, i declaring that the people lad no. confi- denee in the administration : nd that if proper officials were not placec in charge, the British rule in Jamaica wig ht come to an end. | Hong Kong, May 6th.—Thirty eight- l Chinese, convicted of piracy of the | steam launch ‘‘Kwongtak,”” were shot to deatn today by the Cninese authori- ties. The pirates recently seized the “"Kwongtak’’ in Hong Kong waters, A Chirese customs cruiser attacked and sunk the vessel and captured the pirates. Loondon. May 6th.—‘'Bad as the ship- building industry is at home,’” says the Teehnical Journal, *it is worse abroad. Actually we are construeting nearly halfa miilion tons more than the rest of the world put togeiher. Thus we have regainad the lead and stand pre- eminent as tenrage producers.”’ Belfast, May 6ih —The Ulster Cabi- net has decided to maintain its position and refuse to appuint a representative on the commission to delimit the frontier between the North avd South, as provi- ded for in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Ap- pointmentof the cowmmissioner was re- quested by the British Covernment. The Cabinet’s decision was tiken at a mecet- ing under he chairmansaip of Sir James Craig, who returned yesterday from London. Sir James was given 23 great reception on s return and this, he said in a brief speech, greatly encouraged him after the “"very trying time I have just had in England.”’ Caleutta, May 6th.-—''l am most em- phatically not competing wih A nerican or British round the world flyers”’, Lieut. Pelletier Doisy, fHrance’s peace time “*Ace,”” who has outdistane-d all eom- petitors in a flight from Paris to Caleu - ta, said in an interview bere. Doisy said he was flying to Hanoj, in Indo- China, and might go on to Japan, but that he was not on a world flight a‘- tempt. L.ondon, May 6th. The Priice of Walcs spent more than an hour yester- day in the Canadian pavilion at Wem- bley, examining the various exhibits and expressing himself as highly pleased with all he saw. The thing that secemed specially to delight him was the series of panoramas of Canadian scenery and he recalled many happy days spentin. tne scenes depicted on these canvasses. The only eriticism offered by the Prince was that wit regard to the great statue carved out of Canadian butter, whica he described snceincetly as “'rather fat’’. Vienna, May 6 . —What are declared to be remoants of the original tablets bearing the Ten Commandments wric- ten by Moses, (nave been deciphercd by Prof. Hubert Grimme, of the Uaiversilv of Munster. .*’l was taken out of the Nilus by the iigyptian Queen’’, is the sentence written in the almost for- gotten old Hebre v at the head of one of the tablets which were found som: time ago on the plateav, Serabit Xi Chadam in the Southwestern part offthe Pen dsu- la of Sinai, by the English scholar Flin- ders Petrie. The iablets contained alss the names of Joscph, Menassa and Mcs- es- In an article pubiished in the Vienna Morgen Zeitung, Prof. Grimme wn) de- ciphered the tabi=is from photographs, declared the fact that so far oniy poriions