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\‘ £ v | S ' 3R g\\ ) L ) | (“/'H’W’ h Y i /A 3 b |£7 g ' . a5 ® v Y ~. 4 TiTR YEAR. CHERISIIANBIED., V.l U 8. A, FRIDAY, 20mm JULY. 1905 “but the last hardly had been fixed when there was imposed upon us in on: of those supreme councils, where we always left hehind us some o” our rights a schedule of payments that the country accepted reluctantly and wheh redueed our claim in undetermincd yrjo-ti ns. We then accepted this schedule of pay- ments as an /international convention as an engagement of honour pledged to us. A few months later, M .Poincare assert- ed, "‘this schedule again was questioned as certain of our friends seemel no longer to have any other thought than to lighten th2 German d btf, and as they themselves were our creditors, we told them, there are ttree kinds of bonds provided for. Let us keep our part of the first two. As for the third, we will use them against Germany only in pro- portion as our creditors ask us to pay our debts. Still we found this too ex- acting.”” The Premier said, France vas reproached for not having suflicient re- gard for Germany, and for exposing her to disaster, that wou!d effee all other nations. ‘‘And yet”’, he declared ‘‘nas not Germany been so well looked after during three whole years that she has been allowed to default on all her obligations, so that we had to pay with our own money 100.000,000,000 francs she owes us and has not paid? Has she rot een allowed to rebuild her commercial deet and develop her canals and railwavs and enrich her great industiries at the expense of her cereditors? M. Poincare asked if anvone imagined that Germany wouid stabiliza the mark and put her house in order, “'if France watched with arms folded.”” “‘For three years, he added, ‘‘the Allies have fcllowed this mirage, and for three years things have been going from bad to worse, If we were not in the Ruh:, Germany would have continued to slip into the abyss she dug, but we would bave b2en empiy haunded, while now we hold seeurity and we are powerful enough not to have to let go’’. FKrance, the Premier assertei, unceasingly had been making concessions and he added, if we have reached the end, it is because until now they have al- ways been at our expense. ‘the peace treaty had promised reparations and se- enrity. FKor security, France had been given the right of temporary occupation on the Rhine that was tocease at the pre- cise moment Germary should becone s:ronger. France also had b2en prom:sed a guaranty pact, but this had not been ful- fi'lad and nothing had been offered to re- . THE ST. CROIX AVIS is printed and published daily (Sundays and Holwdays excepted) by G. Johansen at the Avis Office. TERMS:--50 cents mo~thly in advance, 2 conts ner single ¢rpy. Entered as second class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- gted, S¢. Croiz, V. L of the U. S. A. un- der the Act of March 3, 1879. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Senlis France, July 15:h.—M. Paincare today proclaimed the French Govern- ment’s unzalterable decision resnlitely to stand for the complete execution of the Versailles Peace Treaty, with the Ger- man debt at 132 billion goli marks, as agreed upon by the Allies at the London Conference and against any international financial committee to replace the repar- ations commissions. M. Poineare, in his address, said France had finisted the making of concessions to Germanry. She was tired of temporizing with that coun- try. The Premier’s strongly worded ad- dress, while carefully refraining from mentioning the speeck of the B itish Prime Minister in the House of Commons Jast week, is considered as the French’ (Guvernment’s preliminary answer to the i,litish position with regard to the occu- p.tion of the Rahr. M. Poincare chose{for his pro: o :ncement thistown, whichmarks the farthest advance of the Germans. The Premier based his conclusions of France’s legal rights under the treaty signed by twenty eight nvations and which cannot be considered after four years an antedeluvian fossil. M Poin- care professed to have no hatred and no spirit of revenge for the devastatisn, the traces of which were visible from where he spoke. ‘'We should like no longer to talk of devastation, or to think of it”’, he declared, ‘‘we should like to f{orget, even to forgive’’. "In the repiration committee estaolished under the treaty” he said ‘‘We are in the minority, al- though ours is the major interest. Never- theless it has been sought for years to re- leve this commission of its powers to re- piace it with international finaneial com- missions so as to attempt to ealesce against us interests opposed to ours”’, “The p-ace treaty’’, the Premicr con- ty.ued, “established conditions under which the commission should fix the German debt. There was pretence of respectinz those conlitions, he added, No. 166. - place it, for the guaranty pact, proposecd ' by Mr. Lloyd Genrge was for a shorter . time than occupation and withoeut pre- . cise engagement. Military aid was nc- . thing. it was only a dangerous deception, | M. Poincare emphasized the Govern- . ment’s and his own personal feeling in | favour of closer relations between France . and Great Britain. He recalled that it . was he who brougt about the ailiance | with Great Britain before the war, when . others were advocating better relaticns 1’ betwegen France and Germany. The ' Premier concluded with what was in er- | preted as a carefully worded remiider | of Franee’s supre.me position on the eonti- ' rent and the danwer of attacking tle . treaty of Versailles, or he said through ~a breach opened in the Versailles treaiy, - other propositions would pass that would . reopen the entire peace sottlement, des- | troy the new status of Central Europe | and menace our friends, Czacho So- | vakia, Rumani» and Jugo Slavia”’. i Lonon, July 16:h.—Ex-service men . from all parts of the Empire gathner- | ed at Wembley Stadium yesterday for i the big sports prooramme, held under | the auspice of the Imperial British Le- . gion, and among the promient persons ' present were the Prince of Wales and . Eail Haig. The chi:f event of the after- l noon was the mile relay race for the | King’s shield. which was won by the | Australian tram three minutes forty and ' fourfifth seconds. The Prince of Wales . presented the shield to the winners and | was given a woenderful ovation by the ey- | service men. LIST OF UNCLAIMED MAILFOR THE WEEK ENUED JULY 14, 1923. Elennora Clendinen; 30 King St., Mr. £ Haunsen (Eleazer Hansen), Miss Cathrine Jackson, Mr. Alfred) James, Charlotte Peterszen; 11 Hill St,, Post Office, Christiansted, Virgin Js- lands, July 16, 1923. B. R. LARSEN., Postmaster, Quebec Steamship Co. THE S. S. GUIANA is expected to leave N2w York on Mon- day. 23rd inst. and is due at rrederik- sted on or abouat the 30th :nst. ROB'T. L. MERWIN & CC. INC., Agents,