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) ! f i iL{\ ____,,\\ \\ i, «;‘\ (.1 —_~ K, PN SVU L. 75TH YEAR. iHE. 3T. CROIX AVIS . vs printed and published deily (Sundays and Aolidays exespted; by G. .Johangen at the Aves Office. . Tl 2 {5---50 cents monthly in advonce. 2 cents per single copy. Kntered as Becond-class inatier Muy 26th 1917 at the Post Dffice al _arisiadn sfed St Oroie. Ve i oliliie t. & 4., un der the Act or Marcih 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper will be glad- Iy received when the same deals with mut- ters of general interest, und s accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good faith. The editor cannot be responsibleJor the views of his correspon- dents nor does ne necessarily endgorse them. TRLEGRKAMS. B ST CROIX STAKN Dublin, Sept. 21st.—Auxiliary police forces last night wrecked the town of Bal- brigean near here in retaliation for the shooting of two police officers there eany n the eveuning when distriet Inspecior Burke was kilied and his brocher, Ser- geant Surke, was seri usly wounded. Pwo civilians were shot dead and sev- eral persons wounded. Many houses were set on iire; and the larzest Losiery factory iu ireiand belonging to an Ene- iish firm was destroyed. This morn- ing the town was in ferror and streams of refugees in all sorts of vedicies were abandoning the place for neighbouring villages. = Paris, Sept 21st.—Wiile HEngland is negotiatin,; fur resumption of trade with Soviet Russiu, Hrance is ratnering an active imoveme=nt to. resiore normal trade relations wiii: anti-BolsheviK Russia. A powertul association 18 formed io Paris comprising proprie.ors and managers of three-guarters of the Russian indastrial, commeareial and financial institutions. and plans to wosk in cooperation With the Govt. Madrid, Sept. 21st.—A dynamite bomb exploded yesterday in front of the Wriends Uiub in [alavera, a suburb of this eity, doing enormous amage, but inflicting no casualties. Une arrest has peen made as a result ol the ourage. Washinglon, Sept. 21st. President Wilson, it is believed heve, has dec d2d o delav earrying out tae directions of “ar- riele 34 of tne merchant marine act re- lating o termination of ceriain comm=-r- --cia, treadies until Congress reconvenes In December. Section 34 of the act directs that :he Presideat within 90 days df the @RIETIAI\S'IED. V.E U & MONI'AY 27th SEPTEMBER 192( signing of :he biil whieh became a law on June 4th, is to gi7e notice to the gov ernments of ail countries, parties to com mercial treaties with the United States, that the provisions of any such treaty whicen rastrics the United States in 1m posing diseriminatory import duties and tonnage dues on foreign vessels will be determined. Paris, Sep:. 21s: —{he ninth session of the Councilof the League of Nations adjourned yesterday aiter haviag smooth- ed out dJifficalties between {our na tions in controversies whieh at one time threatend to result in vrar. Througn its acrion in ihe Polish Lituanian cni siz the —ouncil succeeded in getting the’ w 0 countries to agree to an iminediate suspension of hostuities pendinga set- tiemen: of their, dispute, whieh both sides agr-e to aceept. Riga, Sept. 21st.—Poland’s attitude eoneerning the ethnographie boundary has been given officially to the Associa- ted Press exclusivelv. A description of this line by the Poles is at present impossible because the question, it is contended, musi be determined by an agreement between the Poles and the Bolsheviki for several reasons. First Russian statistics are considered unre- ilable by the Poles.. Second the popu- lations of the territory involved in the question o ethnographic Poland was changed materially during the war bv immigration, some cections, formerly Russian in character, being now Polish while some formerly Polisn, may possi- bly now be mostlg Russian, therefore the ethnographic line is uncertain and must be discussedgand determined by the peace conferengs upon facts to be established. This s the first definite statement ihat has wuveen obtained from the Poles. The Poiish representatives also s»id they copsidered that the size of their armg.'must bhe propor- tionate to the a\.g]ies of adjacent states, principally Russia and Germany. The size ot the Russian army will be determined at the Riga peace confer- ence. That of the German army has already been determined by the treaty of . Versailles. The Poles are not vet prepared to announce all their counter. proposais. How long it will take to demobilize their army after peace de- pends upon the sizeé of the army deter- mined by the treaty. New York, Sept.. 21st —Departmont of Justice and Govt. high officials ad- mitted tonight that five days invest gation has failed to solve the myvstery 9. 2eß of the explosion 1n Wall Street last Thursday. Officials generally agree that the explosive was carried into the fin ancial district on a ramshackle wagon, left standing at the curb in front ot the Essay Office just before noon. London, Sept. 21st.—Failing an elev- enth-hour development, virtually every coal mine in the [Jnited Kingdom will be idle next Monday, a meeting c¢f the delegates from ali distriets having this afternoon accepted the report of the exec- utive committee of the federation to the etfect that nothing had been achieved by the negotiations to prevent a strike. The deiega'es who number nearly 200 also endorsed the proposal which the execu- tive ma e to Sir Robert Horne. Warsaw, Sept. 21st.—The peace nego- tiations between [ithuania and "oland have been broken off, and the Polish le- gation has left Kalawrya, and is return ing to Warsaw. Lithuania agreed to withdraw her troops behind the Foch lines, but insisted that the Poles retire a similar distance behind the line thev now occupy. To this the Poles refused to agree. London, Sept. 21st. —~Queen Alexandra has altered her will for the fifth time this year, disposing of goid, silver and treasures at Marthorough House, half the value going to dependents on charity lists, and the other halt to Prince Olat. London, Sept. 21st - The ‘'Times’’ Melbourne correspondent says that Siv Joseph Cook, a navy minister, will suc- ceed Sir Andrew Fisher as Australian High “ommissioner in London. Recent- ly a special correspondent of the '‘Times’’ wrote: ‘‘Confusion and uncertainty rule the federal politicians of Australia. The party in power, the national varty 1s the survivor ot a coalition formed by Premier Hughes in the days when the conscript controversy tore him trom the bosom of labour, and flung him into alilance with his lifelong opponents, the liberals led by Sir Joseph Cook. With the war over, the bond of that union seems to grow 1n creasingly irksome.”’ Quebec, Sept. 21st. --Viscount Burn- ham who acted as president ot the im- perial press conference, and was head of our great mission of newspapermen during their entire stay in the country, was guest of honour at a luncheon offer ed by the Quebec Men’s Capadian Club at the Chateau Frontenace at noon to- day. Lord Burnham made his address to the province of Quebee, and this city (Continued on Lth page.)