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AN - 4 S A\ & - ./ e St Croix Avis Y@ "L‘ Y&y Y % 75TH YEAR CHRISTIANSTED. V. LU 8. A.¥WEDNESDAY 24t NOVEMBER 1920, ken action as provided for in article ten of the Leagne Covenant to prevent the var whieb had been going on for a year between Poland and Soviet Russia. The British delegate held that it was quite possible for the I.eague to do something to prevent a fresh outbreak of hostilities between Poland and Soviet Russia, which he declared was unmistakably threaten- inz in spite of the pateched up peace. R :garding the admission of former ene- my states, Mr. Barnes said, he was here to represent the labour element of Great Bricain and he koew the vast majority of th~ labour people-demanded that all Cle eaemy siates: be admitied without delay. : London, Nov. 19th. —iieut. Col. L'Es- trange Malon>, Liberal member of the House of Commons, who was arrested in Dublin on November 4ih. for alleged se- ditious utterances, was today senten@ed to six months’ impri:onment. : Loadou, Nov. 19th.—Melbourne advi- ces state tnat a sum of 20,000 pounds In- cludigg gii'ts from Epzland, hasbeen sab- scribed tor Mr, Hughes, the Aust aliao Premier, as a testimonial and recouni- tion of his public service during the war a d the peace conference. CA ¥ 7 Wl NOTICE A @ ALL persons havirg bilis against Cap- tain & . BARYIEIT, U S M. C. are requested to rendaer same at Marine Barracks at once. (Sighied) - S J. BARTLETT Lk > iy & . I\\@ i 5 : . ’\ \./v ‘ é? A2 d 4 2 Py K" > TN . Optical Servi > &+ pticai dervice WOUR prescrintion fiiled, and & special %roun(i lenses promptly duplicated threu~h the mails. Consult our refractionist, moder- ate charge for consultaticu. . M. CORNELIRO. St Sfhemas. 1 = V. L THE ST. CROIX AVIS 18 printed and published daily (Sundays + and Holidays excepted) by G. .Johinsen at the Avis Office. TERMS---50 cents monthly v advonce. 2 cents per single copy. bntered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post -Office at Christian- wted, St. Crowe, V. L of the U. S. A., un dzr the Act of Maren 8. 1878, Contribution to this paper will be glad Ly recewved when the same deals with mat- . ters of general interest, and 1s accompa nied with the author’s name, us a quar- antee of good faith. The editor canno? be responsible for the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorsethem. "TELEGRAMS. T ST. CROIX STATION. New York, Nov. 19th. -Plans for tne diversion of b2tween 160.800 and 200,000 tons of Cuban raw sugar to Euaropean markets are under way by a gioup of lozal sugar dealers, it was announced her: today, as a means of relieving the present f{inanciai st ua- tion in Cuba. The dealers, it was ve- ported, are .seeking buyers among lhe purchasing rvepresentatives of Great Britain, France and italy, in the belief that the foreigno sale will eliminat a geat amount of r:w sugar handlinT off the _market and will provide the Cubans with - money needed. - Geneva, Wov. 19th. —At the opaninyg of seday’s session of the Assembly eof the League of Nautons, M. Hymaans, itho President, read a reply from President Wilson io a messazge sent to Washing- ton by the Asscmbly on Monday. Mr. Barnes, a Sritish d=legate. then took / the floor to begin discussion of the re- port of the Council of the League. uilr. Barnes dwelt espaeiaily on the necgssity of lencing assistance to the Armenians. “They are’’, he declared, ‘‘hemmed in by th2 brutal Bolsheviki on one side and by ichuman beings on the other’. The lahour chapter would become the most jmportant pari of the treaty of Versailles, Mr. Barnes predicted. ‘‘There can be no permanent peace in the world”’, he said, “‘until there is industrial peace and there - ean be no industrial peace until labour _gets a »etter share of the profits it earn- ed”’ Mr. Barnes referred to the League in'the Polish-Lithvasian dispute and In the.questfon in ihe Aland Islands be- tween Finlanda d Sweden. He said the ‘Couneil must have support, bur he want- ed to know why the Opuneil hal aol ta- No. 273. By THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN Is- LANDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Proclamati A Prociamation. HE President of the United States has § by proclamation designated Thurs- day, the 25th day ot Noyember, 1920, a8 a day of thanks@?ving and prayer. WHEREFORE, 1. J. W. Oman, Gov- arnor of the Virgin Islands ofsthe United States, do hereby designate the afore- said date for observance as a day of thanksgiving and prayer by the people throughout the islands, inviting them to cease on that day from their ordinary tasks and to unite in their homes and in their several places of worship in aserib- ing praise and thanksgiving to God the Author of all blessings and the Master of our dest’nies, IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have nereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Government to be fixed. Dana at St. Thonas this sixteenth day )i November, in the year of oar lLord, sne thousand nine handred and twenry, J. W. OMAN By the Governor: LEO F. S. HORAN, Acting Government Secretary ey RS ‘@ A W ’ / & l\., .‘i“: 1 [ B ” L/ (-3 . -~ . 5 & : &,\, R ! X S - ~ : eR 2 . « j ‘3}: e \_m‘v"g - o \*;\’. : . 0 US ') Negligee Comfort for Men in e ‘. { SOFT and restful for midday, even- ning and recreation wear—dressy and durable for all day wear. 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