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Egg Plants. The best variety to use | is the Black Beauty. The sead should be II planted in boxes and the plants trans- | ferred to the ground and spaced about | 3x 2 feet apart. i "Sweet Peppers. Pimiento Pepper is | one of the best. Ruby King is also good. | Plant the seed in boxes and transfer to | the soil spacing the plants 3 x2% feet | apart. 1 (To be concluded ) | eRe ! | b] { Football. | Yesterday on the Holger Danske the | Christiansted Athletic Association Foot- ! ball Club was defeated by the Dread- | nought Football- Cilub by one goal to l none. , I must congratulate the Athletic Boys | for the good playing they showed, and may they continue in doing so. The Dreadnought Boys played in such a good manaer so that their Club shall still bear the name the strongest in St. Croix. The day being favorable, the Ground | was filled with spectators and everything | went on in a peaceful manner.—Com. | TELEGR= MS. ST. CROIX STATION. | London, May 26th.—In summoning a | conference of coal owners and miners for ! tomorrow the Govt. has not laid down | condition of any kind, nor has it given a sign that it has any definite plan of its | own to propose. It is howevoer believed | that the Premier would not have taken | this step unless he had reason to believe | that either side would hold out stiffly for its extreme claims and a great deal of | reliance is placed upon the force of public opinion being able to prevent the conference failing altogether Both the | mine owners and the miners knoxy that | their own friends are anxiousiy hop- ing that they will finl some way to in- | dustrial peace. Lord Inchcape, one of | the chief ship owners of t e country, | wrote today to the Times 2 serious warn- ing of the effect of the dispute on the | very life of the country, where are we | going he asked, and pointed out that if the trade returns of the first quarter of 1921 be reduced to the same value as those of the first quarter of 1913, exports rave | fallen off by 49-5 and imports by 25-7 per | cent. He reminded the nation that it had lost most of its foreign investments dur- ing the war and had acquired a foreign | debt of one million pounds, and declared. if we do not speedily make np our minds | to work and save we shall inevitably lose | the peace. | London, May 26th.—Lord Burnham on | behal. of the Empire Press Union, of | which he is President, yesterday in- | formally invited the United States news- | papers to send delegates to an Anglo- I United States Cenference -in Loundon within the next year, for the purpose of 52 £ RL X A VIS furthering the good relationship between the two people. Athens, May 26th.—Ministers of Allied Powers in this city have been handed the answer of the Greek Governinent to the Allied poté which announce that Constantinople and the Straits of Bos- phorus and the: Dardanelles would be considered neutral territory duringhos- tilities between ‘the Greeks and Turks. The note expresses confidence that the step taken by the Allied powers will stop the forwarding of supplies to the Turkish Nationalist in Asia Minor from Constantinople. Sofia, May 26th--A bomb was thrown from a window ofa house near the Royal Palace today as King Boris stood on the balcony of the Palace reviewing a procession composed largely of school children. lhe ‘explosion injured ten of the school boy paraders. Attribut- ing the outrage t> the communists, a mcb ran sacked:the Communist’s Club and set the building on fire. Belfast, May 26th. —Unionist leaders are already calculating the possibility of returning all” their forty candidates to seats in the Ulster Parliament, The report of the first Count in Londonderry last evening showed that Sitr Robert Anderson, former Mayor of that city, and Professor John MacNiel, Sinn Fein member of the Dublin University, had been elected. ‘ London, May 26th.— The side for Eng land i n the first test match at Not- tingham next Saturday against Austra- lia, has been definitely chosen, It is as foilows. The Captain will be Dou- glas, the others will be Knight, Surrey Rhodes, Yorkshire, Henderon, Mid- dlesex, Wollwy, Kent, Holmes, York- shire, H. Howell, Warwickshire, Rich- mond. Nottingham, Jupp Sussex, and Tylderley, Lancashire, A wicket keeper and another batsman will be selected on Tuesday. Leipzig, May 26th. Sergt. Hayne, accused of ‘having ill treated British sol- diers who were prisoners of war at the prison camp at Herne, Westphalia, was sentenced to ten months imprison- ment by the High Court bere today. He was the first German soldier to be tried on criminal charges arising from the conduct of the war. The evi- dence in the case was ~ompleted yes- terday and in his summing up ad- dress the prosecuting Attorney General emanded that Hayne be sent to prison for two years. In reviewing the testimony received during the trial the prosecutor declared that waile prisoners of war could not be expected to be handled with kid gloves, the appli- cation of violence and the use of offen- sive epithets was not warranted. He declared that Hayne was shown to have exceeded the requirements of nis posi- tion as guard over British prisoners in 28 instances. Attorney for the defence declared the sergent was constantly beset with difficulties, due to the hos- tile attitude of the prisoners. They were said to have been generally un- ruly, to have constantly organized mutinies and to have falsely report- ed themselves ill. Hayne made an ad- dress in court declaring he had faith in the judges sense of jastice and asking for an acquittal. The next case to be tried will be that of Captain Muller who *was accused of illtreatment of British prisoners at the Camp of Karlsruhe. Oi the other ac cused the interest of the British is keen- est over Carl Neumann, who command ed the 67 which sank the Hcspital Ship “‘Dover Castle’’ off the coast of Africa on May 26th 1917. He is not yet under detention, but the Govt. has promised to produce him for trial. Hoylake, May 26th. lubbs of Sunning- dale defeated Beddary of Penna in the sixth round of the British Amateur Golf Championship tournament here this morn- ing, 3up and 2to play. Beddary yes- terday eliminated Tolley, the 1920 Cham- pion. Allan Graham, Royal Liverpool, beat A. C. Harrison 2up and Ito play. Hunter of Walmer and Kingsdown de seated Holderness 4 up and 3 to play. Tubbs and Graham will meet in the semi finals to be played this afternoon. Right of Boston the last of the United States entrants, was eliminated this morning losing to Bernard Darwin of working by one hole. London, May 26th.—Four batallions of British troops began to advance from the Rhine to Upper Silesia today and the transfer is expected to be completed by the end of the week. The War Office announced this evening that two batal- lions also would be sent from England, making six batallions in ali despatched to reinforce the Allied troops already in Upper Silesia. Paris, May 26th.—The Chamber of Deputies this mo ning have a vote of confidence to Premier Briand Govt The vote was 403 to 162. The vote was taken on the question of the Govt’s. stand with regard ‘o Silesia and gencrally concern- ing its attitude towards Germany. Belfast, May 27th. Sir James Craig premier designate ot Ulster, who polied almost 30,000 vofes in the elections for the northern Irish parliament. estabiish- ed a record for the bailoting in Ulster, his nearest competitor Edmond de Valera receiving approximately 16,000 v tes. London, May 27. h.——A despatch is the ““‘DailyHerald’’, the Labour organ from Vienna, says the Supreme uouncii has notified the Hungarian Government tnat when the reparafions commission ar- rives in Budapest at the end of June. it will assume control of the couniry. both poiitically and economically. Belfast, May 27th. Mr. Arthur Griffith was elected to a seat in the Ulster par- liament Tuesday.