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West End New Grocery offers small assortment FRESH Bacon, Hams, do. Picnie, Lunch Tongue, U. S. Sausages, Family Mess Beet and Pork. BEETS, LIVABEANS, PEAS, SJABBAGE, KRAUT, WAX BEANS, FRESH CHEESE, BOUILLON CUBES, FRESH POTATOLS, ONIONS, ¢ Strawberries, Raspberries, Peaches, Pears. Pineapple & Apricots in tins. SOUP VEGETABLES, Vegetahle Soups and asst. CAMPBELL’S SOUPS, Crisco, Coup d .ard, Oleo Mar- garineand good TABLE BU"TER fresh made every day from Christiansted’s Co-operative Dairy. Fresh Ginger Snaps and full assort- ment Biscuit & lece-Uream Walers, and all the Staple Articles. WEATHFR REPORT. ®ah Juan, 2ar. 30.00, Ther. 74, S. Vel. 4, partly cioudy. St Thomas, Bar. 29.98 Ther. 76, E: Vel. 4, partly cloudy. St Kitth Bar. 2998 Ther. 74 N.E Vel 4, cloudy. Dominica, Bar. "29.96, Ther. 72, N. E. Vel. 4, clear St fucia Bar. 2994 Ther. 714. 8. E., Vel. ,2 clear. ; Barbados Dar. 29.96, Ther. 74. E. Vel. 4. clear. Fort of Spain, Bar. 29.92. 'Ther. 74, calm, partly cloudy. St Uroix, Har. 3000, Ther. 86, E.. clear. Rainfall for past 24 hours, 0 - Mail-schooner Virginia arrived at f're- deriksted last night with 20 sacks of mail. The ‘‘Parima’’ is looked for at 9 a. m, today. ' THE ICE CREAM PARLOR afforded a very enjoyable time to its regular pat- rons and the general public last eve- ning on which occasion a special assort- ment of good things were served. (Con- gratulations are due the proprietor for the success of the evening which it is hoped he will find it- inducive to repeat at intervals. "HELEGRAMS ST. CROIX STATION London, Sept. 80th. ~Suear in stock on the 27th instant was 125,000 tons. [Last yvaar 262,000 tons. St. Thomas, October 2nd. - Censor re- strictions withdrawn on cable messaces to and from France. = XLoo AER AV I 3 London, October Ist.—At the meeting of the transport men today it was ar- ranged that eleven Delegates from the Transport Workers Conference would meet the Premier at three o’clock. London, October Ist.—-Captain O’Grady a Labour Leader and Member of Parlia- men*: for East Leeds, on entering the Conterence of the Transport Workers Fed>rucion this af:eracon, said ‘‘some- thicg very important will happen. I hope this Conference will succeed in effecting a settlement’’. Mr. Smillie, leader of the miners, and one of the sponsors »f the movement, demanding direct action in the recent Labour Con- ore<s at Glasgow. pledged this morni g that fifty per cent of the manual workers of the countiv would be idle within a week. He de-lared he expected the min- ers’ steel works, shipyards and all fac- tories to shut down. London, Oct. Ilst.—Throughout -Great Britain the various local schemes of food distribution are working admirably but the rai.way “trike ha§ almost completely paralized industry, aad from every cen- tre come reports of works closing duwn through lack of t.ansport facilifies and coal. More than 150,000 north England miners are idle, fheir number being added to daily. In Manchester which reflects the views of the textile industry grave fears are expressed that tnless a settlement is reached betfore the end of the week, many thousandsof cotton oper- atives will be thrown out of work and all business suspended, seven steel works in Shoflield have already closed down and others affecting 100,000 men can only hope to carry on until Sunday. Twenty thousand iron workers are idle in the Middlesborough district and the Leices- tarshire engineering works, and Burton which brews beer rtor all England has entirely stopped work througt lack of casks. London, Oct. Ist.—While the delegates of the Transport Federation were as. sembling today to decide whether the 325,000 workers they represented, shouid g 0 out in sympathy with the striking railwaymen of Great Btitain the Gov- ernment’s official report on the situation, issued at noon, announced a continued improvement in actual conditions. The train service had been bettered. the communique asserted, more than 800 trains having been run yesterday, in- clusive of those in operation in the un- derground service. Additional railway- men had returned to work, it was de- c¢l-red. Arrangements have been made to replace the b.smen and the tramway-. men should they strike, tae statement announced. It was added that the move- ment of food was proceeding remarka- bly well. The meeting of the transport federatic n marked thé most critical move- ment so far in the labour situation, hrought about by the railway tie up. The meeting was attended by represen- tatives of other organizations invited by the transport men. These included the amalgamated engineers federation. the shiphuilding and engineering trades, the printing trades, the electrical trades. the raiivway cierks, the new postal fedsration and the national federation of miners and workmen. Most of the Labour members of the House of Commons also were present. [t was expected that the transport workers demand a general strike by all trades, but a considerable difference or opinion existed, some of the delegates being inelined to ask fer a bailot of the members of the organization before reachinga decision. Mr. Thomas, the railwaymen’s leader, >n enterine:tho mee'ing, said he was still using all lis influence to confine the dispute to the originai participants, the Govt. and the railwaymen. _ : London, OQOct. Ist —Admiral Beatty speaking at Kirkeaily said he had noticed that the railwaymen’s leaders had con- gratulated the men on their loyaity tc the Union. Admiral Beat'y remarked that it seemed to him lovalty required a much broader interpretation. London, Oct. Ist—The response to ih. Govt’s. appeal for volunteers continuc. astonishingly great. Liembers of 1o Cavaliry Club, Royal Air Feree Club, ‘|- onels, Majors, Barristers, Accouniants, Consuiting Eleectrical, Mechanical aud Civil mnginers, are to be found among the stokers at the urderground jower- houses and undertaking traffie dites at stations, workinglifts ete. The latest news from South Wales shows that most of the leading Welsh industries includino coal wining and tin plate are working badly. The strike has affected at least 400,000 miners and 26.000 tinplate men, while work on (he docks is at a stand- still. Pickets near Cardiff last night cap- tured 1 number of pilferers and handed them over to the police. San Salvador, Oci. Ist.—An epidemic of yellow tfever has terminated and no new cases have developed. Paris, Oet. Ist.—Caypiain Mornet who was Government Presecucor in the casts against 8010 Tasha, Pieme J.enoir, Charles Humbert and M. Duvai, all of whom were tried for having commuari- cated intelligence to the enemy, has beep appointed in the same capacity at the trial of Joseph Caillaux, Ex-Premier. Copenhagen, Oect. Ist. The lines at Bulata are reported broken by the troops of the finnish General Balakovieh, in a despatch received here from Helsingfors., Whoie divisions of the HRolsheviks ave declared to have surrender. Cineinnati, Ohio, Oct. Ist.- Cincinnati today won the. opening c¢ame of the world’s scries irom Chicago Anericans by a score of 9 10 1. Washington, Oct. Ist.—Boris Bakh- meteff, the lussian Ambassador, inform- ed the State Department today that General Razanoff, the Superior Russian Commander in Sibervia, had apologized for an incident at ima, Siberia, on Sept.