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We beg to apologize to our veaders for the late publication of Official News con- cerning Captain Alfred H. Noble. How the letter from Government came into this office or to whom it may have been delivered we have been unable to ascer- tain, it being only accidentally found yesterday morning upon one of the com- posing cases. Hence the delay. .. It is announced in today’s issue of the ‘*Herald’’ that Mr. D. Hamilton Jackson, Editor of that paper. will deliver a pub- lic lecture on the whart this evening in which he will present his side of a mis- understanding with the clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church in this island. & o OFFICIAL NEWS. Captain Alfred H. Noble, U. S. Marine Corps, who arrived in St. Thomas on the Parima last Wednesday has been assign- ed to duty as Commanding Officer of the 116th. Company at the Marine Barracks, St. Thomas. Captain Noble recently returned from overseas where he saw considerable ser- vice at the front. A brief summary of his service follows: He embarked with the Sixth Regiment of Marines for overseas service on Octo- ber 27, 1917 and was at the front in tne following sectors: Verdun, Chateau Thierry (Belleau Wood), Soissons, Mara- bach, Champagne (Blanc Mont Ridge), Meuse, Argonne and St. Mihiel. He al- so participated in the march to the Rhine where he remained with the Army of Oc- cupation until July 27, 1919, when he re- turned to the United States with his re- giment arriving on August 6th, 1919. Captain Noble was in command »f the 83rd. Company, Sixth Regiment, from March 17, 1918, until August 20, 1919, when the regiment was disbanded. He was presented with the Distinguished Service Tross for the Belleau Wood ac- tion.and the Croix de Guerre for the Champagne engagement and was also presented with divisional citations on two occasions in the Champagne sector and once in the Meuse-Argonne sector. He has the proud digtitiction of being the first American officer on duty in the Vir- gin Islands to wear the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de tsuerre. The Chairman & Road Commission. As Roads are to be re-allotted in the new future, please see that all Road Holders who have neglected to do their bit in tle past yeai, be made to have their Holdings in good shape be- rore re-allotment. Also that new work under way be not as King’s Hill bridge and those on North Side were. (Gone but not for- gotten.) ROAD HOLDER. s 1. e ROX AN 1w { ® 9 | Little Joknny’s Slate. ‘ On the Estate, ‘ Sept. the twenty-third. ‘ Dear Mr. Yohansen: ~ Ist. I must thank you for showing us around the office the last tims we came to towrn and I cane uj to g2t my . slate to rite on. When we got home " Daddy told Mother where we had been and that you said you had lost b sub- ' seribers and got 10 new ones and you thought the war was over but you would not charge any incemnities like Enzland " and France ind Ameriza ckargec Ger- ~ many and Austria and Turkey. It was very late when we got home «nd w 2 had to axe the Central for the tirie because Daddy forgot the Steeple was not wo-king " and had set his watch by it. Mrs. Pius was paying a visit when we got homea. " and when Daddy told Mother about his ' watch, Mrs. Pius larft at the Steeple and Ch istiarsted (Mrs. Pius lives at ' the North Sice, but vot:s in Frecerik- . sted). Daddy told ter tkatat ali e’ents ~ the clock in the Steeple was rice 2 | times in 24 hours arnd some people were ' always rong, and that he wishec the cloek in the Steeple was ¢ religious argu- ~ ment for it wculd be one that had come . toafinish We we-e goiag to Fredearik- . sted to-morrow if Dacdy sold some | cows to be shiped fron there soon, i but our cows are a no-hcrn kbrede | and can’t be <shiped as tkere is no Lorns | to liftthem by to pat them on the boat. l' We may come to Ulristiaisted and if we . stay for the evening Dadly sars we will | go to here Mr Jackson’s “*Nightly de- . sense on daily oporessin’. I hope ' veople will set their watc ies b the flag ' and not by the Steeple so they can be on | time. ; Yours truly . | JONNIE ICNATZ. | TLLEGRALIMS I ST. CROI:X STATIOMN. ; London, Sept. 20th.- -it is repo ted ' that the British evacuation of Asia - Minor has begun. f London, Sep:. 20th. Viscount Grey, [ Ambassador tc the United States, left ' London this riorning on his way to | America. Lord Reading, V'inston Chure- ' hill, Secretary of War, and Ear! Curzon, j President of the couacil, kade bim fare- | well at the station. Sir W lliam Tyrrell, . Viscount Greys private Secietary is ; accompanying the Arabassador. 1 Melbourne, Sept. 20th.- The .Jouse of ' Representatives has passed without . division the pecce treaty, and an agree- ' ment to defend France against ag- gression.. London, Sept. 19th.—A War Office . communication issued toaight records . a successful ant:-Bolshevik: operation by Pritish, Serbian, and Russian troops with the capture of :wo villagesin :the nerthwest shore of lake Omega. The repulse by aircraft of fifteern 3olshevik vessels whizh at:emoted to intercep: the landirg of an allied columr, on the western shore of che lake, i 3 also report- ed. Mo da es ar: given as tr when hese incidents took pl:.ce, bit they 2r2 regrard od in some (quarters here as ind cati g ¢ moveraent towards Fetrograd, possibly confir ning -he recent sugge stiol that 1 is the inten-ion to evacuate Archangzl by that route. The communi-ation issuec lonigkt clams a series of sucecegsfuvl at ‘acks in th: Tzaritsin district, with the capture of more thar 4,000 Bolsh:vik troops and adds ‘hat the Bo she -Iks have recaptured Kose etz, 1 ortheast of kiev. Lonion, 3eot. 20th.--Grzat 3rit in’s treaty with Persia does not constitu ea protec:orate of the lattzr country in anv way, the only wbject of the agree- ment being to assure Persiz, an oppor- tunity to werk out her destiny as an independent coun:ry, taid larl Curson, Governmen. lead:r ir the Hbouse of [ ords ind Fresid:nt of the coincil in syeakizg a a dnner giver hore last night in Lkonour of the I'oreign lin- ister of Persia. “he speak:r udmifted tiere nad been misunderstancings of the treaty, but said there wis no gre und for suspicior, as woull be p.cved bv the working out of the agreemen:. ""An eva of *haos and ¢)nfus on in Asia’’ wes forecast by Lord Curson, who leel red it woull be some tim2 be ‘ore sradili- tv is rastored in cegions for nerly dom- irated oy Rissia and Turk:@wy.” Waen we spe.k of theirdeper denc :of Perein.’ Earl Curson said, ‘‘me:ning the pcliti- ¢zl anc. natoonal indevendeace of the ccuntry, Iconcede now as I have al- ways conceded thet the indenendence of Porsia :s a britisk as vell 2s a Pervian interest. Inleed, our main interest in Porsia is is indeperdence. We do nct want Pcrsia to be a riere buifer against our cnemizs. ‘We want her to be abu wark for the peace of the wcrld ard I cen assire our gust he neel h:.ve no fears upcn trat yoiut. W 3 sihall respect the ndep-'nderce of his con- tr. We dic not ask ¢t the peesce eo)n- te ence for a mancate i1 res)ect to Par- sir. + Bad it beer offered, we shoild not have accepted it. 1 @&om 0t belicve fo'a momen: tha: Persia would h:ve asiied forit. We prefe- to trace wth Persia as a partier o equal terris, wi-h thkat countr’ en oying her own sovereign anc capaole of deal ng with us on terms of partne.ship. I d> not ecn- cexl from myself, hat ‘ully as we un- derstand the agrcement corcludad be- tween us, suspiciois have boen arous- ed as to its real churacter. T.ese susoi- cions rest in the riain upon a misccn- ception, which shoald not be difficult to reraove. 1 usee i1 is stated in sorie quarters that this cigreement is a veilad prctectorate by Great Britain. I take it that a protectorate means some a:surm p- tion of exclus ve re;pons bility and sotrae curtailment or restriction in the protect-