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veference yesterdsy is alleged to be masked. ir .‘moonrider’” rig. “He is also ‘reported dresséd -'at times in . female costume. --The whele matter must of course be accepted with reserve, coupled with cautiop. .27 ._ Proper decorum was secured at the show last night by special ‘action of the police. gy The second instalment of the King of the Circus was presented to a full house at the Christiansted Theatre last night. This is unquestionably a serial in which the tastes of a larger percentage of movie admirers will be satisfied,*and it may be recommended as film that would prove interesting to the most fastidinus. ~Correspondence "~ Christiansted, May 18, 1922 .+ Elitor ‘St -Croix Avis’’, el N, SRR OY:— - As regards the matter of dis- solvad corpirations; we fiad: that par. 2, of Sec. 25, Chapter 26,. Title 2of the Code of Laws' providas that all cornora- tions howevei dissolved shall continue as brdies corporateso wind un their af- fairs, ""but not for the purpise of continu- ing the busi iess for which they w:zre es- tablished.’” Paragraphs 3,4, and sof the same Saction - outline, in our inter- pretation, ‘that directors or trustees shall be authorized t» wind up the affairs of dissolved corporations and naturally they shall sign on beh=if of the eorporatior. In our opinion it is the same as a busi- ness in liquidation, or an estate cf a de- ceascd person which is being adminis- tered, but has no potency of its:if. Os c®arse, we are all liable.to be wrong, everybody is. ? Common sense would however dictate that there cught to be some way of dis- tinguishing between - corporations ex. tinct and existent, by the way they sign. . fruly yours, e BUSINESS MEN. - To the Editor St. Croixz Avis. Dear Sir:—. : ; " Please allow me space for a re- mark in your paper. I consider a person who anonymously attack me a COWARD trying to hide'the real motive for his attack: if he was a man, why does h 2 not sign his name.. s - - Very truly BINAR SVENDSEN. TELEGRAMS. = " BT. CROIX STATION. ' Washingten, May 14th. The House yesterday agreed to the Senate’s amend- mwent to the post office zppropriation bill, providing forone million dellars for the operationof a New -York- San Francisco ST { MIIX AViD air mail serviee during the coming fiscal year beginning cn.Jaly fifteenth. London, May 14th. The English and Welsh Railways have announced impor- tant reductions in freight rates, which are likely to givea considerable impetus to the revival of tlace in certain districts. A reduction of fifty per cent has been made in eollection and - delivery charges, while the rates have been ‘reduced on some raw .materials, inclvding iron, steel and bricks, by which the building trade will also benefit. ' London, May 14th. Details of a revised policy for the defence of Australia, ap- proved by the Counecilof Defense and involving a reduction of £1,750,000 below estimated expenditure for 1921, are men- tioned in a Reuter despatch from Mel- bourre. These show that in view of the reserves of ammurition, the output of munitions will be - opped and the staffs of the munitions fa. ories willbe reduced,” whi'e the nucleus - £500,000 allotted for this purpose will ' _ sufficient to prcvide for expansion into' certsin proposed new branches. ‘ + Lendon, May 156 t .. According to a despateh from the " idrid correspondent . of the **Westmins. Gazette’’ th> Por- tuguese Governme. ¢ has received adl- 'vices from the A ores of the outbieak there of a mysterio 1s epidemic, which is rapidly spreading nd causing a consid- erable number of & aths. The despatch ‘adds that two gunboats with medical staffs and supplies have been sent to combat the Jisease. oy Madrid, May 15th. A semi official an- nouncement issued today states that the Tazorout operations are the final action of military and that the army will now begin the establishment of a civil pro- tectorate. ‘The announcement also adds that General Berenguer will probably re- turn to Spain_and. will- be replaced by a civil Governor. : Licndon, - May 15th. According to a semi-official statement made here this afternoon, Mr. Lloyd George and the other 'members of the Bri*ish delegation will return from Genoa at the end of this week. Washington, May 15th. The State De- partment today received a cable from Mr. Child, the United States Ambassa- ‘@or at Rome, sputaining an invitation to the United States to take partin the newly. planned economic conference at the Hague. Southampton, England, May 15th. In the course of an interview before sailing for New York today. Dempsey, in reply to a question. as to whether C:rpentier stood any chance of beating him in their next fight, said, ‘*Carpentier always has a chance to best anybody. Thereis only a difference of ahout four pounds in our weights. He is a great fighter. and if he had hit ove half 2n inch lower the last time he fought m>, it would have been all up with me’”. . : g ’ Manila, May 14th. The Prince of Walas wahs coashnd hava this smcraing, sustained a slight injury in a polegame this afterncon .<“h4q}l striking him over the right ¢ flicting a gash which necessitate. titches being taken. He withdrew ..: the game and retired to the ““‘Renown’’and was unable to at- tend the dir~:~ ~nd -~ ~ception arranged by the Couvernor, but ne will resume his visits tomorrow. New. York. May 15th.—Owing to the purser of the British steamer ‘‘Vestris” having developed an eruptive disease, believed to be small pox, on the voyage from Buenosaires, all the passengers on her arrival here today were vaccinated and placed in quarartine. No other cases occurred on board. Genoa, May 16th.--The forthcoming reassembling of the economic conference at'the Hague on the fifteenth June is due to the desire of the Kuropean Powers to persuade the United States to take part therein also as a means of dissolving the conference at Genoa without admitting that the differences between Britain and France, relzative to a solution of the Rus- stan problems, cannot be smoothed out. Genoa, May 15th.- Sir Edward Grigg announces that the proposal for a com- promises which had been suggested by Mr. Lloyd George and accepted by the ‘Powers invited, will be submitted to the sub commission on Russian affairs and that the powers represented at the Ge- noa conference will be asked 1o send delegates to the Hague, where they will decide that during the meeting of the mixed commission the nations should not make separate agreements with Rus- sia, four- months to be the maximum duration of this truce concerning Rus- sian affairs. » Genoa, May 15th. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece have deciaed that a conference shall be convened this sum- mer at Paris, where their delegates will discuss the question of the production of alcohol in these countries, which is se- riously threatened by the United States prohibition law. O.tawa, May 15th. —There has been a decline of twenty nine miilion doilars in the total trade of Canada during the moath of April as eompared with the same month a year ago. Dublin, May 14th., The Irish peace com- mittee met again yesterday a- the Mau- sion House and some optimism was no- ticeable, but no ground for it was appar- ent. The real point of division is regard- ing the elections and at the conference yesterday it . w2s urged on the treaty side that this should imply the certain accept anc: of the treaty as a fact which altered th- whole situation. The proposals sign- el by Messrs Collins and Muleahy were supposed to indicate the possibility of accommodation as to the nature of the el >ctions, but yesterday the official organ of the party favouring the treaty dis- counted this' supposition.