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76TH Y EAR THEST. CROIX AVIS is printed and purlished daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Johanseg at the Avis Otfice TERMS-- 50 cents monthly in advance. 2 cents per single copy Entered s second-clags matter May, 26th 1917 at the Post )ifice at Christian ged. St Crote, V. Lotthell. 5. 4. un der the Act of Vlarch 3. 1879 Contribution to this paper will be glad- lg received when the swme deals wih mat- ters of general interest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. Theeditor caunot be responsible for the vicws of his correspon- dent:nor does he necessarily endorse them. FTELEGR - MS. ST CROIX STATION. London, July 6¢h. A, G. Hill, the Bri- tish olympic runner, wcn the mile run in the analeur athietic association meet- ing on 'he Stamford Bridge Ground, in 4 mipuies 133 seconds, a new amateur record. . Taylor, of Pennsylvania, won the broad jump with 22 teet 1 inch. Rcexw Port. R. 1., July 6th. —Oxford and Cambridg 1 took two of the three doubles matches from Harvard and Yale in the opening of the international inter- collegiate lawn tennis tournaments at the New rort Casino ©Cou... ,esterday French and. Duane. Harvards stars, de- feated MeCarthy and Horne of Cam- bridee 62, 1-6, 63, 8-6,. Hophins and Barbour of Oxford took he match from William. 3amby, of Yale in five sets. Hepburn of Oxford and Lowrey of Cam- bridee woi the third mateh from Whee- jer of Yale and Holmes of Harvard in straicht sets. {iverpool, July 6th.—A remarkable foature of the visit of the Prince of Wales to Livervoo! today was the dis- piay in iany streets in the Irish quar- ter, of Sinn fein flags entwined with Union Jacks. A prominent Sinn Feiner questioned as to whether any significance was to pe attached to this replied, “‘ali I can say is that the order to do this came from Dublin. London, July 6th.“-Mr. Harmsworth, under seeretary tor foreign affairs, sta- ted in the House of Commons today that the action o1 seneral Harrington, com- mander of the British forces in Constan tinople, in arresting an assistart of Rron- islau Koudish, soviet commercial dele- gate in Constantinople and other mem- bers of the soviet mission there late in CHRISTIANSIED. V. LU. S. A% MONDAY ilTh JULY 1921, sune was cotirely justified. The arrests were pecessitated by the discovery ofa plot to start a revolution in Constantino- ple beginning with the assassination of General darrington, said Mr. Harmsworth who made his announcement iu reply to a question. General Harrington arrest- ed 52 undesirables, he added, of whom ei~ht belong to the Russian trade dele- gation. Nine of the Russians were re leased the same day, and nine were de- ported. Mr. Harmsworth said he under- stood that the Russian delegations office was searc! ed, he did not know what dis- position had been made of their contents. A note frem Le nid Krassina, Russian soviet minister of Trade and Commerce, asting for an explanation of the arrests, had been received and a reply was under consideration he declared. Leipsic, July 6th.——Major Crusius tried on a similar charge as Major Stenger was given a sentence of two years in prison and forbidden to wear the Ger- man uniform. General Stenger was commander of the :53rd German Infantry Brigade andl Major Crusius held a com- mand under him Major Crusius assert- ed at the trial that the order had been given by General Stenger that no prison- ers shouid be taken and the wounded men should be killed. General Stenger in his testimony flatly denied these aceu- sations. ‘l'ne verdier rendered in the cases of Major Crusius was one of man- slaughter. London, July 6th.—i.ord Balfour of Rurleigh died today. [ord Balfour was born in 1849. e was a Chairman of the Royal Commission on closer trade relations between Canada and the West Indies 1n 1909, spending considerable time in these countries. Washington, Juiy 6th.— Refusing to accept the House action in reducing some appropriations in the naval bill, the Senate today returned ‘ne measure to conference. There was uvo dispute over the Borak amendment authorizing and requesting the President to call representatives of Great Britain and Japan to a Naval disarmament confer- ence. The Senate’s acticn tcday finally assured retention of the Borah order. St. Lucia, July .6th.—His Honour Aunthony Defreitas Chief Justice of St. Lucia left here yesterday to take up hlS‘ appointment 28 2nd Puisne Judge of Jamaica. T e Hon. J. Stanley Rae, At- torney General and the Hon. W. V. De- gason, have been appointed to act as Chief Justice and Attorney General re- gpectively, : No 160, London, July ©ih.—Generai Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa who has just returned from a visit to Ireland, publicly expressed his opinion tonight that the Irish probilem is a sol- uble problem. This statement was greeted with loud apjplause by the dis- tinguished companv which attended a dinner given in honour of General Smuts by the South African colony in London. General Smuts opened his speech by de- claring that he had not abandoned hope of the United States. ‘‘She is a shy maiden and must not be wooed too warm- ly’’, he said. '‘l want to see that the United States pull with us in this great world service that today is being ren- dered by the British Empire almost alone’’. Alluding humorously to his visit to lrelan . he declared that he found the people divided in two classes, those in jail and those on the run.”” He added, that he himself had been among those on the run, seek- ing to escape reporters and cameramen. The Irish problem, said General Smuts, , was one largely engaging ‘‘the whole British Empire.’’ It was a problem how- ever, on which he could not speak to- night except to express the belief that it was soluble, a d that there was a bet- ter atmosphere. ''lf we all help to create a better atmosphere and are determined = . to wipe out what is really a stain on the . Empires record, we shall succeed.’’. ‘““Therefore,”” he continued emphatically, I think I am hopeful, I trust that the . question will be solved ard that thereby the British Empire will be freed from the imputation that in this ancient part of the United Kingdom there still exists violation of the fundamental principles upon which the Empire rests. 1 say that the problem 1s soluble, because I have seen it solved in my own country, under circumstances less embittered than in Ireland, but certainly of a very difficult character too. If ever this problem of ; the subjection of one people to another : presented a hopeless view it was in South v Africa, but finally in a spirit of give and take, forbearance and trying to render something to the point of view of the other side, we solved the problem, and today South Africa is one of the happiest.. countries in the Empire. Our forbezr- : “ance and self sacrifice have pr id us hand- L some dividends in our national life. ; Washington, July 7th,— House Repub- licans at a conference last .nignt fixed July 21st as the date for a final vote on the general tariff bill, consideration of which began today.