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&5 ¥ 7gS” # s £ ‘T\é\??: :;S '!/ ( . /‘\,; '.\ 3 R ’:\\/ \ b /fg ; ("}‘;\ . ’../ ‘\'3 )8| 4\| NV BNy ’? ‘% ) R 4 o DL RN SdULS, e e 78TH YEAR. CHRISTIARSTED, V.l V. 5. A., THURSDAY, litß FEBRUARY 1924, and Soviet Russia, it was learned defin itely today- The premiers suvgestion that this step be taken is acreed to in the Russian repiy to Dritain’s note granting recognition. {he reply was re ceived from Moscow today 1= ceouched 1a the most friendly terms. [t intima‘es that M. Rokovsky will b 2 named Charge d’Affaires pending the appoiniment of a Russian Ambassador. London, Feb 8. h—The London news- papers this morninz again devote their principal columns to the "‘secret Rhine- land paet’’ story priating at length the statements of ex-Premier L'oyd George and others, cabled reports from the United States und France and a muli- piicity of details. The Times says, **somebody has bungled, that’s all. The world will shrag its choulders and pass on. We cannot see that the incident needs have ahy effect on our po'iey. What Mr. Lloyd George thinks cor theught on the Rhineland matters little now.’”’ Some 97 the other papers regret that '‘so mueh has been mnace cut of hi- tle’”” and Mr. Liovd George’s hostile orities bid Mr. MacDoald cease worry- ing, assuring him that M Poincare knows Mr. Lioyd George and furthermore knows tuat his influence new ''is absoluiely niil.”” Syaphy is eitfered Mr. MacDon- ald for being dragzed into an unplea- sant occurrence over whien he had no control end it i 3 made ciear thal the French Ambassador’s request for suohi- cation of the Paris Conference docu- meats was made oa January 8:h, while sending them to Mr. Lioyd George was s act of courtesy by pernanent oificials va January 22nd, during the transition from the old to the ne'w government when there was actually no puiitical head >f the Foreign Office. London, I'eb. Bth, -The mest interest- ing thing about the list of hLonours be- stowed by the King today, on the occa- <o of the retirement of the Baldwip aovernment is that it falsifies the ru- aicur which predicted a dukedom for Lord Curzon of Kedieston. OUnly one aew Peer is created, Sir John George Butcher being made a Baron. Sir Mon- ~ague Barlow, Minister of Lavour in the ißaldwin Cabinet, is made a Buronet. and sir Harry Brittain is tade a companion »f the order of 3t. Michacl and St Seorge, for his services in connection with the Imperial Press Conterence. Washington, Feb. Bth. —Chief Justice Taft has recovered frem his iecent at- iack of indigestion and was at his desk THE ST. CROIX AVIS is printed and published duily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. PERIIS-=SO e2ats morthly in advance, 2 e>uts per stagle copy. Saterei as sceond class matter May | 25th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- | glad Nt Croie, V. Las the . S Acuns | der the 4ct of March 3. 1879. | Contriiution to this paper wiil be glad- lg receivod when the snme deals with mat- ters of general interest, did is ICCOMPi- nied wit! the autlior's namz, as a guar- an‘ee of good faith Thecdilor cannot be responsii e for the vicws ¢ fiis corre.poi derts nor ines he necessariiyend rgel.iciv, TELEGRAMS. ST, CROIX STATION Bomb: . Feb. Bth.—The [nlian Na- tiona ists "Maharma' Moovandis Gand i has wriiien tothe ['rosident of the Na- tional Conuress Mohameoed Ali, expres.iar regret taat th: Bimbay Government ro- leased him froqs prisoa, owing o illaess, because .2 does not rezard theillness ol o prisoner as atfording grounds for livera- tion. Moreover Gandhi says hisreleas? has not brouzht him relief, becau-e b 2 is vver- wholmed with a sense of the responsibil- ity which: he ls now unable to d.scharge, Ha deelares that the Matiwnal osrobiems are more p2rpi2xing tolay thn wa2a he was 1n prison, owing o ine deplorania disunion of the Hindus and Mussulmans and he appeals for cessation ot the mu- tual distrust and the promotion of uuiiy. ‘Two years of solitude and hard thinking, the Nationalist Loader says, have corvia- ced him of the necessity fur a consirueiive programme, in the prosecution of wnich tne people need never resort o civil dis- obadience, although his belief in the lot- ter plan has not weakened, Gaudhi aryg- es his colleagues to reirain from quarrel- ling with the moderates, beciise ihey also are well wishers of the countvy. “The Enxiishmen are also friends no not treat them as enemies’”’ he writes. I'he struggle against the system [or o w ven the Britizh Goverament s aeds is not against toe Englishmen who are ad nin- istering ‘he system. Those who _fuil to bear in m:ind this distinetion harm the cause. London, Feb, Bth--An Angla Russian conferenc: will be held in London short- ly for the purpose of discussing ail gues- tions outsianding between Great Britain No. 36. in his home today attending te corres- pondence, Washington, Feb. Bih.—The Depart- ment of Justice wiil immediately set in maotion its machinery to ge to the bottom of charges by Governor MceMaster of South Dakota, «that Allies interests of the Standard Cii had corvered ithe ervede oit supply and enhanced gasoline prices. The department’s action has been taken upon instructions from President Cool- idge. Luxor, Feb. Bith. The oflicial ovening of the Sarcophagus of King Tutakhamen has been fixed tor next Tuesday London, Feb. 9tn.-- A storm of nation- al proest against the Prince of Wales recklessness on the hunting field has been aroused by the incident 1n which the heir to ‘he Throne broke a collar bone near Leigh‘on Buzzard vesterday. 'lhe Prince’s phvsicians issued a bulietin at ten this mo rning, sayving the patient had slept well and was progressing. Upon lcarving that the Prince of Wales had not suffered serions injurv, the putlic reaction was indiznant. s is believed to be the fourteenth bad fall suffered by the Priree, who is untiving and feur- lcss and is out every day during the huoting season. People attach more in:- portance to the accident to His Royal Higbhness, 1n view of the recent death of Capt. Benuett, prominent Steepie chaser, who was killed through a tall Luxor, Egypt, Febh, 10itb, —Professor Laufleur of MeGtl Universitv died |eve last night of preuvaionia. He had been ill only a short lime, Sandiezo, Cal, KFeb, 10th.—The 1 nited States scout cruiser ‘‘Milwaukee’ has bzen ordered to Amapala, UHonduras, 1o protect American interests, lLondon, Feb. 10th.—~The Government will face Parliament next Tuesday with the onerous task of steering a sate course against an adverse wajority and its iife depending up o wiaieve r assistance may be accorded it by the large Liberal Party The Premier, whose health is not the best, is spending the weekend revising the speech in which he will announce the policy of his government, The three weeks recess since the Labour Govern- ment was formed has been all too short, it is sa‘d, for the committees of the Ca- binet to prepare all the necessary work and define the detailed lines of poliey for the ensuing session, thzrefore it is not unlikely thar the Prime Minister’s (Continned on 4th page.)