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Mails Close for the United States and other places via New York by s. s. “Pa- ria’’ at-5 o’clock this arternoon LOCAL 5 lises of rain was measured at the Fort this morning. Kingshill 2 and Fred- eriksted 1 line, The s. s. *'Paria’’ is due at Frederik- sted today at 1 o’clock, anl is expected to sail for New York tomorrow noon. Mails by her will be closed in Christian- sted Post Office at 5 o’clock this after- noon. The Mizpah from St. Thomas with mails, cargo and passengers arrived here vesterday afternoon. [he s.s. ""Byivar” from New York via Frederiksted arrived here at noon vesterday and after discharging her cargo sailed at 4 p. m. for the islands. She brought fourteen bags of mail for this town. We beg to welcome back to the island Mr. J. B Gebhart, Public Works Officer, who arr.ved here yesterday by the s. s. **Bolivar’’. Two new instruments (cornet and clari- net) were received by the Native Brass Band on Tuesday by the s. 8. "‘Surinam’’. The subject, ""JESUS THE MESSIAH, IS COMING AGAIN’"will be preached by Elder F. Hall at the Adventist Church Sunday night the 16th inst. This truth is no cunningly devised myth; it is based upon eleven lines of prophecy that the Master Himself gave when upoun earth the first time.”” Bap- tism will be held at the sea Saturday or Sabbath morning the 15th.—Com. St. Thomas News The enrollment during the first week of Jschool was about the same as that ot last year, and divided as follows: Grades 1,200: 11, 188: 111 237: 1V o 0 Y. 0: ¥l. 188: Y. 10y YL 34; IX, 17; X, 20; XI, 3; XII, 6; making a total of 1,515. This year’s enrollment shows an in- crease in the high school of 74 pupils, the number being 185 enrolled as compared to 109 last year. : In Grade I, there are enrolled 200, which shows a decrease of 52 chlidren from last year’s enrollment for the same grade. —The St. Thomas Times, Sept. Bth. The Department of Eduecation now boasts of a complete s:aior high schoo!, ST &1 3 22 with pupils in the teath, eleventh, and twelfth grades. At the present time there is.sucha demand for the services of high school s*tudents: that it will be very difficult to keep them in sc' sol. Two stuldents from the tenth and <lev- enth grades, respeciively, have already left for more lucrative employment,— Ihid. : . TELEGRAMS. . ST.. CROIX STATION.. London, Sept. 11th.—Typhoid and dysentery have bruken ¢ t in Tokio and there is great need for .edical supplies says a despatech to th Daily Express dated Sunday. Distressing scenes are being witnessed daily, as the foreigners and Japanese continue their search of tie ruins for relatives. Many bodies -are still lying in the streets. The British and United States Embassies have establisn- ed headquarters in the Imperial Hotgl, which escaped demolition. A group of foreigners marooned at Miyadsobhita, a Summer resort in the Hakone district, have .ben rescued, many Japanese have begun to build homes of some kind, in order to protect themselves from the elements. : London, Sept. 11th.—A special Iheelir g of the first committee of the League of Nations, which deals with allinternatio - al leg@l affairs, has been summoned to meet tomorrow to hear Sir Lomer Gouin, the federal minister of justice and Cana- da’s representative tothe League present the case for the dominion for the ameunéd ment of article 10. : London,3Sept, 11th.--A Central News despatch from Berlin says it is report-d from Moscow %Pat Leon Trotzky, the Russian Soviet War Minister. has been as- sassinated. No details are given. There is no confirmation of the report. San Diego, Sept. 11th,.—Navy aviato-s are depended upon by scientists to fur- nish them with plotographs showing the corona of the sun. Fifteen airplanes from the U S battle fleet squadrons took to the air more than an hour before the totality period of yesterday’s eclipse of the sun and each of them rose to more than 16,000 feet, considerably above the foz and cloud banks that interfered with the view fro.n the ground. Many photo- graphs of the eclipsc were made. Scien- tists at Point Lota stated that because of adverse conditions prevailing. the eclipse observations were unsatisfactory. London, Sept. 11th.—Three syndica- lists attempted to as:assinate Premier Sylva of Portugal today, according toa Lisbon despatch to the Central News. The attempt was unsuccessful. Berlin, Sept. lith.—The Soviet Em- bassy here deseribes the reports of a re- volt at Moscow and the assassination of Leon Trotzky, the war minister, as fabri- cations. : Geneva, Sept.. 11th.—Believing that any comment on his part wvould be un- timely and liable to comyplicate the situ- ation, Lord Robert Cecil has abandoned the plan he announced yesterday of mak- ing _today a detailed statement on the Gredo Italian contrav:rsy, especially from the standpoint of the League of Nations. Lord Robert had indicated that he would summarize the situation to the represen- tatives of the press here. Athens, Sept. 11th. -The crisis be- tween [taly and Serbia over the Fiume question is causing grave anxiety here, where it is looked upon as a possible menace ‘o immediate adjustment of the Greco-Italian situation. It is feared that in the event of hostilities, Ttaly willfind some pretext to continue the occupation of the island of Corfu, the occupation of which seems to be the uppermnost factor in Greek circles. Advices from Balgrade say that the populaca of the Jugo Slevian capital is in a state of high excitement and that the Government will follow step by step every military move taken by Italy. The Alban'ans have closed their Greek frontier, according to private ad- vices, and are recruiting all men of mili- tary age in the eastern part of the coun- try. Paris, Sept. 11th.-——At the request of Baron Avezzano, [talian Ambassador, the Ambassador Chuneil nostponed its meeting this afternoon until tomorrowy. Baron Avezzano said that he had not yat received instructions from Rome regard- ing the evacuation of Carfu. Some ner- vousness has developel here over the efforts to settle the Corfu occopation before the measures adopted for the satisfaction of Italy’s demands are in- augurated. ¥ The feeling in French cir- cles appears to be that Italy ough' to be taken at her word and withdraw from the Greek islands as soon a3 the terms of the Ambassadors proposals are eom- plied with. Rome, Sept. lith.—Premier Mussolini, who arrived here today from Milan, where he spent the week attending the Grand Prix auto race, went immediately to the Foreign Office to receive the latest reports concerning the Greco-Italian and Jugo Slav-Italian situations. Later he sent instructions to the Italian Minister at Athens and the Ambassadors in Lon- don. Additional instructions were issued today by the Ministers of War and Ma- rine for preparations made necessary by the situation. London, Sept. 11th.—The Greek Gov- ernment has arrested eight persons suspected of the murder of the members of the Italian boundary Commission in Janina, according to a. Rome despatch to the Central News. The arrest of Colonel Botzaris, Greek member of the Greco- Albanian boundary commission, is said to be imminent. - Rome, Sept. 11th.—It was announced, semi-officially today that Italy is not pre- pared to consider any mediation or arbi- tration of her differences with Jugo- Slavia with regard to the status of