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SWEEDISH AMERICAN LINE: S/.3 Stoekhotm May bth & June 22nd. S,S Droctningholm about May 15th. , ® Johnny’s Advice To Readers £ > .9 Os The “Avis’. Don’t buy an Encyclopedia when by binding your year’s subscription to the ‘“Avis’’you can have for your library a volume rreating exhaustively from the points scored by two beliggerent dogs in an a. m. street fight to the defining of saeraments, inclusive of Tutein’s ravela- tions from the depths of *he sea ‘o Mr. Svendse. ’s ‘‘peak’’ of the load; besides the lictle flashes of wit by me. We are compelled to give credit to the editor ana bhis worthy compeers for tle boldness and zeal exhibited in his valuable columns, aud presume that the peak-load musi be often on the “‘Avis” office. The peak-load does not hover long on the editor, however, for he fre- quently drowns his care at the sanitary bath-nouse, frolicing in the pure water adjoining the hospitai sewer. The peak- load seems rather to have an affinity for the power house for in the morning itis on the proprietor; betrween 12 and 2 it is on any party desiring to see him; at 7 it is on the lights; later it’s on the piano whea the light-weight musician plays the latest rag regardless of the soft pedal, and at the end of the month when mother hands Daddy the D. W. [. Power House flat-rate-bill, with the few fifty- cents extra for fuses, and instructiors “‘how t» use the light’’, the peak-load is unmistakably perceived on Daddy. That bill hits Daddy hke the man who plans o go to Mars in a vacuum tubz will hit the planet, if he gets there. Os course there is a possibility of that man falling back to earth and as the earth will have been revolving while he was in space it is quite reasonable to suppose that he will land at some other point than that at which he started, say for in- stance, in Cnristiansted. Imagine his falling on the wharf while the peak load is on: ; When the ’lectric lights are dim and low, Anidickering shadows come and g0; When the moon her radiance has czased o shed And the noisy postmaster has gone to bed, Thnere being no mails to distribute And -he telephone truck has ceased to toot; When the T M.’s dog has ceased to roam And La Bega’s fountain has ceased to foam, When cats come out to mew and fight, For in Christiansted, cats can though dogs have ho right; » » Where do you think he’d think he fell? Wouldn’t you think he’d think in **** : 3.k 51. - - L L’l.( A 1\ TELEGRAMS : ST. CRQOIX STATION. : De ayed In Transmission. . Paris, April 2nd.—M. Millerand has received a long note from Gerniany, endeavouring to justify the entiy of German reinforcemeats in the Ruhr Basin and asking, after the act, for the authorization of France. M. Millerand received shor .y aftera telephone mes- sage from Berlin, officially announcing that Germany hd% intimat® that the commissioner of the empire in the Ruhr had assum d responsibility for the action in the neutral zone. M. Millerand dec 2red to the represer:rative of the Hava’s Agzen- cy that the svstemati¢ violation of the article of thc treaty she ed the evi- dent bad faith of Germany. The situ- ation in the Ruhr was on its way o improvement, but the intervention of troops which kad paricipated ir the counter-revolution in Berlin, would have the worst consequentes. France will however not be to blame, as she did everything to prevent bloody conflicts and acts of destruction in the mining basin which might occur. .he mea- sures considered after a consultidcen with Marshal Foch and thze Allies are probably the guarantees already de- manded from the beginning, and the request for the authorization of the oc- cupation of Frankfort, Darmstadt and Hanau. There was ‘every reason, he said, to believe that the Allies would associate themselves with the measures asked Tor by Fraice. Paris, April 4ch.-—The military mea- sures consid red by the French (ovt, have for their sole object to co pel Germany to respect articles 42 to 41 of the peace treatv, whieh forbid the pres- ence of German troops in the zon: 50 kilometres east of the Rhine, and are therefore exclusively measures of con- straint.” The suggested occupatior of the zone of Frankfort, Darmstudt and Hanau has beeun proposed solely to per- mit the Allies to obtain pledges in re- ply to the violation of the treaty. 'The territories which the Allies may ocecu- py are outside the Basin of the Ruihr. Sin2e the 28th. Mareh M. Millerand roti- tied Berlin of the guarantees that Frince wonld econsider indispensable in the event of the entry of German trcops in the Ruhr. Berlin should thersiore expect the occupation of the zone named, which apparently would fake place without incident. This ocelpa tion had not yet commenced, but would take vlare at an early date not yet de- cided. The ‘‘Temps’’, commenting on the German violation of the treaty, says that Germany still follows the same traditions and the same military castes, and that the Prussians are ore- paring in 1920 for revenge, as in 1914 they prepared for war. No methods of persuasion, it says, will reduce his militarism, and the military measures being ccosidered are therefore neces: Sary. Paris, April 4th.--An official despatch from Berlin states that the troops of the Reiclswehr have occupied Duis- burg, Karnap, Rockbinghausen and Oberhausen. All the newspapers em- phasize the importance of the new atti- tude of Germany relative to the Ruhrand declare that the situation in future is clear. They believe gencrally that mili- tary action has now been decided upon and declare that in case he Allies hesi- tate, France will act and take the neces- sary guarantees. The ‘‘Journal’”’ says the object ~f the operation is simply 0 put an end to the flagrant -iolation of the treaty while the ‘Petit Parisien’’ believes that the Allies will approve of Frarnce’s action and will understand the danger of interi ational peace if one hun- drea thousand German soldiers are per- mitted to occupy the right bank of the Rhine and submit to the horrors of mili- tary repression the most industrial region of the world. The ‘‘Petit Journal” in a despatch from Mayence, states that the Reichwehr appears to have decided to occupy the entire basin of the Rhine. The Imperial artillery is bombarding vuisburg, the Communists have occupied Essen, and the Reichwehr have entered Dortmund, Hamburg and Hagen. Paris, April 4th.--The London corres- pondent of the '‘Petit Parisien’’ staies he has reason to believe th t the British Govt. will decline to cooperate in the occupation of Frankfort, Darmstadt and Hanau, but will take regard to the gra- vity of the situation and will follow fa- vourably action by France. The ‘‘Echo de Paris’’ says that on the northern dis- trict the Reichwehr troops advanced without resistance, but when approaching the central portion serious engagements occurred and according to information received yesterday, 200 were killed in a conflict near Buissurg, Vladivostoek, April 3rd.—M Techither- in has sent Japan a note declaring that he considers the recent Japanese attack against the Red army at Nikolaiewsk as a violation of existing agreements. 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