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5T kK4I2 A Ve CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 8.15. MONDAY EVENING 8.15. At Bethlehem Wednesday 7.30 THE LAST EPGCH OF ; “J> ACCUSE” THIS EPOCH was Made with the Army of the 28th American Division in the actu- al West Area. Show Will Conclude With A sidesplitting Comedys . THURSDAY EVENING: . “HIS WONDERFUL CHANCE” ADMISSION Reserved Seats.... .....25c. (iepneral Entrance..........15¢c. eL O ... ... n ““We are not citizens of the Nation.”’ *“We rrotest against the 18th Amend- | ment.”’ 2 ‘““Help a starving people ete.”’ Telegrams received from St. Croix ex- | pressed deepest sympathy with the move- | ment, . | Telegrams despatched to St. Croix yes- | terday were to Herald and Tribune as | follows: ““Demonstration a Success. Governor | handed protest. Addressed populace satisfactorily. United people. Holiday | throughout. Telegraphed Secretary Treas- | ury, Associated Press Civil Liberties ' Union.”’ | The people have done all they ean: they | are a distressed people pleading mercy | trom the powerful people of the United | States who ;help all other nations when any calamity befall them, and we doubt | not that they wiil come to the rescue of | an almost gone people who are in every | sense of the word law abiding. We are small, too small for the laws of the large | United States or even Porto Rico—Agri- | cuiture would take years and money. We have no money. We need industries. A pitiful sight was to see about 400 | children from Lincoln School waiching | the procession. Many, many of them | looked underfed. The situation is seri- | ous.—St. Thomas Bulletin, May 19th. | Chamberlain and T.ord Birkenhead of ihe Conservative members who went into the wilderness with Mr, Lloyd George. The Central News also says it is not certain that Lord Curzen will consent to continue under Mr. Baldwin. Paris, May 22nd.—Sir John Bradbury, British representative in the negotiations over the payment of the costs of the United States Army of Uccupation, is understood to have received instructions fromn London to withdraw from the agreement the clause to which the United States obje~ted and thus come into agree- ment with France and Belgium as to ac- cepting the United States draft without further change. The objectionable clause stipulated that the agreement should cease to be effective if the Uniied States proceed to collect war damages from Germany directly. Lausanne, May 22nd. No compron:ise to the deadlock on the question of Turio- Greek reparations was found today at the Near East Conference. M. Veneze- los, head of the Greek delegation spent a feverish doy consuiting with various conference leaders, discussing ways and means 1o an endeavour to ameiiorsie the situation. Ottawa, May 22nd.—Support of the provision in the budyet whica limits the extended British preference to goods on- tering through Canadian ports, was promised in the budget debate last eve- ning by Dr. Murray, (Conservative, St. John Alberta). In the same conneciion he expressed satisfaction that the Im- ports under the French treaty and as he understood the Minister of Finance, un- der the Italian treaty, were also subject to the same limitation. These provisions in the tariff and the two treaties would help to provide business for the Canadian nation railway, as would also ihe ship- vient of coal from the West. From both TELEGRA MS. | ST. CROIX STATION. ; Duasseldorf, May 22nd. —Fines in dol- | lars,§ instead of marks, are now being | levied by the military authorities as pun- | ishment for sabotage and other offenses | e gainst the occupation suthorities, London, May 22nd.-—SBir Lamin Worth- | ifgton Evans will also kea member of | the new Cabinet, according to the Jen- | tral News thus leaviaz ouiside only Mr. Conservative and Progressive came criti- cism of the budget, General A. E. Ross, Conservative, of Kingston, referred to it as a political cenotaph to the Liberal platform of 1919. O. R. Gould, (Pro- gressive, of Assiniboia) declared it was no use for the Government to ‘‘hide be- hind the fetish of reciprocity’’. lLiberal speeches, he added, seemed to be apolo- gies for not putting Liberal policiss into practice. On the other hand, L.:W, Humpreys, a British Coivnibia Progres- sive, anpounced his intention of ivoting for an amendment and for the budget, Dr. L. J. Lovett, Liberal, of Digby-Arn- napolis, thought jthe budget would be generally acceptable to the people, London, May 24th. The West Indians made 213 runs in ‘heir first innings against Sussex yvesterday, Sussex making 68 runs for five wickets at call of time. Following are the West Indians score-. Nunes 6 Tarilton 20 Challenor 87 Ferna - des 18 Holt 27 Browne 20 Constantine 18 Austin O Dewhurst 2 Paseall O Fr:neis not out 2. Exiras i 8 213 Challenir was run cut through a misunderstandine with Holt, when well set for naking a century, Hulitax, N.3., May 23rd.—At a special meeiing of the Council of the [ialifax Board of Trude vesterday, it was decided to send telegrams to the Minister of Finance and the local representatives at Ottawa, pointing out the effect whieh the removai ot the dumping clause duty on sugar irom the United States would have on the svgar refining industry in Canada and particularly that Halfax has a very vital interest in the successful eperation of the refining here, also that any tariff changes which endangered the operation of the refinery at this port, also endangered the export trade of the mavitime provinces with the West Indies as Nova Scotia must have return cargoes ol sugar for ships which take out farm prodaeis, fish, 'umber, ete. It was also averred in the resolution that Canada cannot expect to receive nreferential tarifl ireatment for her produets in the British West Inlies uniess she is able 1o buy raw sugar, which is their principil article of production. Lorn.don, May 23rd.—In comn:on with a few leaaing provineial journals the Lon- don Times und the Daily Telegraph have arranged to shortly increase their price to two pence. These Londen paper:, i making the aunouncement explain that the present charge of three half pence was never econowmicaliy justifi- able. Londor. May 25rd.—The Morning Post today recalls that during the war, op- pressed by the consciousness that his ape prevented him from making che sacrifice the young men of the countrv were ren- dering, ihe new Prime Minister, M. Stanley Baldwin, had his whole private foriune appraised and contributed one fourth of 1t to the National Ex chequer, as a [ree will offering.