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A \\L |/‘ ! ‘ B\ /ot \\/‘\ ":\\ \ o \'/, ' 7 T Ll VYWY ' %Y IE PA { a \ J E/@!@ 1& :\ \\,.’X.J 11/ \\/';:? } RV e N W Y V. A A R . 5T YEAR. JHRISTIANSTED, .V. I, U.S. A. THURSITAY 257H. . MARCH 1920 First: It preclude: the possibility of a general strike. wiich was standing 1g S @ threat sit ¢ e (slasgow Con_ ress , S , SRTRY CASE o last Sepr.. whi pledged itself LO - compel the Govt.:tu Nationalize.”’ See- - ond.- It shows 'he Labhour movement is ready to eni. st its hopes for achiev- - Ing its aspirat ons to the -outcome of a general election, and Thirdly it marks . the breaking poins in the iniluenc» of - Extremist elements among the Labour . Leaders who last September seemed travelling towards ascendency in the Govt. of the ou cil. In the course of a speech Mr. Clynes said that force s it ' ~ had been proprsedto employ it “'ls not a British. but 1 Prussian characteristie’’ Mr. J. H. Thomas said the future of the Labour Party and the Trades Union movement decended on the decision of the Congress, ani he declared that re- cent events ointed to a geneial be- . lief of an ez‘ly possibility bdi a La- [ bonr Governmment, A uveneral strike, ' he said, would cad to serious consequen- ces whien wou!l i shake the country 1o its . foundation. Mr. Snaw said that a vdte | in favour of a strike wou'd be 2 set-hack to tha Trades Union movement for twen- ty years, and te advised against' th: ase | of a''Brute Fored’’. Mr. ‘Albert Tnom- ' as, President of the Freneh Socialists, was among thse on the platform and ' Visconnt Astor and Ladv Astor were al- -80 present, having been invited by the | © Chairman. ; ? London. M:ecch 12th. The Ulster ~ ilnionist Council in decidiug in favour of { six Ulster counties for tne ' Ulster Par- ' liament, reluc.antly exc ud2ll th c¢oun- . ties of Cavan, Monaghan and Dotegal, . ~ but political considerations render this . ~ course advisan.e, a good wvorking majori .ty being assurad in the smaller area. | The *‘'Times’”’ thinks that, judged: by .~ what was invilved in the meaninz of | unionism, Sir Edward Carson has suffer- - ed a humiliating defeat, and that his | failure rais2s the question vhether he | has not made a fundamental efforc in ; strategy. 'The paper regards the Uister | Coancil’s decisson with profound disap- i pointment, and bznind it the selfishness of Great Britaia’s interes:s, rathar ihan i the spirit of a Jiving and progressive pol-. i icy. The Daily Mail’s Irish corresponcent | thinks that there will now probably b 2 a l demand for the offer of a™@minion, with i County option to meet the Ulster pied- | ges, and Sir Hoace Pluckett, in a letter | to the Press defending the suggested oonstituent Ass:2mbly method of solution, expresses the oelief that if the Govt. offered Domianion statu:z to Ireland and THE ST. CROIX AVIS: s pranted and published daily (Sundays and Holid vys excepted) by G. Joransen at the Avis Office. T RMS---50 cents montaly vn advance, 2 ceats per single copy. itered as second-class matier May 28th 1917 at the Post Ojice at Christian- sled. St Croixe, V. L ofthe 11. S 4.. wm- der the Aci of Vlarch 3. 1879 Contribution to this paper will be glad- ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of general wnterest, and is accompa- nied with the author’s name, as a quar- antee of good fuith. The editor cannot be responsible jor the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. TELEGRAMS ST. CROIX STALION.; London. March 12th.—Lord €urzon’s speech on the Turkish problem ani other official statements on the snbject are generally regurded as showing that the Near East tangle 1s quite a serious one and is ecausirg the uthorities some anxiety, wiich is increased by the com- plications tnreatened in connecticr with Syria and Jeso potamia. The shadots of Indian and Mesiem opinion darkens the problem, and it ils believed influences the Councils o/ the Allies more than is always immeadiately apparent. 1. e sug- gestion that the employment of force aga:nst the Turks might excite thic gen- erzl hostility of the Mussulman world is regzrden s one which cannot be sately ignorad. . Montreal, March 12th. -A special ca- ble to the Mortreal Star from London"’ says that the irish correspordent of the Daily (GGrapaic telegraphs that big guns are arrivicg in Dublin and that the stree’ - are being pairolled by armoured cars. Exctement is reported to be high. Berlin, March 11th.—The "‘Devtsche Zeitune’’ reports that when the Ger- ran * wonalists offered Field Marshal Von I_.adenburg the candidature of the German Presideney, he asked for time to considec and to consult the former Em- peror to waom he had sworn allegiance, accoraing to a despateh to the L.ndon Times. As he since accepted the candi- dature the despatch adds; it is clear that the ex-Kaiser’s opinion still carries weight in the Reich’s Party. Londom, Miarch 11th.—The defeat to- day of the direct action proposal by the Trades Union Congress must be rezard- ed as having/ three important effects. No i H 9 the majority waived their demand for a Republic conditionally on Ulster’s agree- ing to negotiate upon a Dominion basis, “the Home Rule situation would be trans. formed. The *‘"Manchester Guardian’’, discussing the decision of the Ulster Unionist Council, says: ‘'A nine county Ulster would ia every way be better than a six county. Its Roman Catholic popu- Jation would nearly balance its protest- ant, and in no long time it would inevita- bly come to terms with its - southern neighbours, and thus give some substance to the shad w of a united lreland.” London, March 11th.—An official notj- fieation anncunces the accession to (he Le:cue of Nations of Owitz&iland, [)on- mark Sweden, Norway and Holland. All but two. hamely Salvador and Venezuela. of the thirteen nations, non-signatories ®to tii2 Versailles Treaty. who were In- vited to become original members of the l.eague, have definitely accepted: Sal- vador has signified lis intention of join ing - the League, Lut Venezuela has not yvet declared its intention. Washington, Mareh 12th.— More ship- ping was saved by keeping track of Ger- man submarines and b routing vessels clear of them than :o auy other simple measure, Rear Admiral Sims told the Senate Investiga ing Committee to-day. The Admiral’s statement was in support of his charges that the Navy Dept. had a fundamental misconception of the problem of defending home waters. in keeping the American na*al forces on this side of the Atlantie, rather than by giving a whole-hearted and vigorous co-operation to the Allies. Actual ex- perience has shown, the witness con- tinues, that we could depend upon keep- ing a reasonably accurate track of all submerines at sea. We were certain we would never have to deal with more than one or two submarines at a time on our own ecoast, and it was possible to do a great deal toward providing ‘or the safety of shipping in ocur own home wa- ters without any anti-submarine crait at all He had receivec cablegrams an- nouncing the denarture f{rom Germany of a raider for the American eoast which were sent more than three weeks be- fore the vessel appeared in American waters. The messages, he said, were remarkable for the accuracy with which every move of the enemy was foretold adding that they were founded on abso- lute information obtained by the British Admiralty. This proved® he argued, the soundness of his foriginal recommenda- tions 1o the Dept. tha* all available fore- es be concentrated in European waters.