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Tonight the current serial will be con- tinued at the Theatre as per ad on previ- ous page. The Christian Mission closed its speci- al service week with a procession through town last night with torchlights, music and singing of lively sacred airs lending a pleasing tone to the demonstration. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. New York, Nov. 21st.—The militarists in Germany already are preparing for another war, M. Clemenceau, past Pre- mier of France, declared tonight in the first address of his American tour. ‘‘Do you read the newspapers, don’t you know what that .means’”. The '"Tiger’’ of France, speaking fervently before a pack- ed house, reviewed the sitvation in Eu- rope; pointing to the apprcacbment of the Turks and Soviet Russia, as ominous war clouds. In the meantime, he declar- ed, Ludendorff and other German miiitar- ists were planning a coup against the democratic government there. Describ- ing the present, as a time of ‘‘greatest crisis’’, he urged that the United States should renew conversations with France and England, which, without definitely committing the TTnited States to any set programme, would present to Germary a picture of three unpleasant facts to ke taced in the war. He said soo.er or later the United States would have to interest herself in the post-war affairs of Europe, b:cause she would not continue to be ¢ mfortable znd wealthy, if Europe was covered with blood. His eXpressed hope was that the United States might estab- lish a plan, as to what was to be done in carrying out the terms of the neace treaty, and join with Englard and France in imposing 1t on Germany. He was frank in his eriticism of the United States post-war attitude, declaring that America had had a large share in impos- ing the peace terms and it was her duty to see them enforced. Challenging the worth of Germany’s signature to a treaty, the '‘Tiger’’ declared that if France had known in 1918 that reparations would have been unpaid four years later, she would have gone on to Berlin. The'‘Tiger”’ received a great burst of applause for the assertion. M. Clemenceau, who protest- ed that he came to America on no official mission,but as a private citizen,to present the truth as he saw it, declared that re- parations was an American icdea, because President Wilson bad come forward with his famous P 4 poir:ts and the armis- tice represented essentially the Ameri- can point of view. Expressing the hope that the United States could find some way of renewing conversations with France and England, looking toward the enforcement of the peace treaty. M. Clemenceau said 1 do not -want to speak of the League of Nations, but 1 might. ““The ‘'Tiger’’ said he did not believe in sl.. C i1 A VIS the League of Nations as a means of pre- venting war, but that he believed in it as a means of arranging matters, deferring war and giving people time to think. ‘““Youhave seen one of the greatest dra- mas in the wxor!d”’, he said. *‘‘We are ‘now in the greatest crisis. Ncbedy knows when it will end ard what «ffect European misery may have on Ameri- can prosperity’’. He asked what Amer- ica had made war for and what she had pained. He raid America had ccme to the last point where the wgs granted time to think. No sacrifice was demand- €d of her except the will to assert her- self, as the people who had conquered were unable to do arything just at the present mcment. Reccanizing M. Pad- erewski, famous musician, and fcimer FPremier es Poland, in a box, the ‘‘Tiger”’ called on Lim to witness to the suffering to wkich Central Eurore had lLeen sub- jectel by Geimany znd Austria. The precple cf thcse countries, he declared, ¢xtended tl eir Lands to Wilson when Le arrived, as a wan brirging justice, tlat brings the right for a nan to live. le jour de glorie est arrive’’. Amnerica bLad freed herself in'l776 ard now the reject- ed the whole of Eurcpe. To all the peo- ples that had been put down under the sceptres of Germany, Austria ernd Rus- sia, America bad brecught the day of glory, he said, but adced: ‘‘A freople may be great ore dey and smzll and me«n another. You, after the contract was finished, told us to execute it as best we might’’, he said, '‘You were wrong in that vou left without any prcposal what- ever. When people have been mixing their blood, they have no right to leave, if there is a Aiflerence. and with- out trying to adjust that difference, you br,o,ke all the oirgans ol econcmie solidari- ty i New York, Nov. 22nd.—The pclice es- cort assigned to M. Clemenceau during his stay in this c¢ity was doubled this af- ternoon, when: the famcus ‘' Tiger’”’ of France received a leiter threaterning his life. M. Clemenceau treated the message lightly. Colonel Bownsal, designated to conduct M. Clemenceau on his tour, in- sisted, however, on taking no chances and turned the letter over to the police with a request for added protection. The letter read, ‘‘Don’tyou dare say too much about our country and Germany. If you don’t heed our advice, you will hear bullets flying around your head. We are sick of having you poison the minds of our people. World war veter- ans’’. : Mezxico City, Nov. 22nd.-—A cdespatch to *'El Mundo’’ says the Banco de lnver- siones’’, of Juarez, closed its dcors to- day. The manager of the bank is now here seeking aid of the government mon- etary eccmmissicn in ercer to re-cpen tlhe institution. : Manila, Nov. 22nd.—President Hard- irg and Congiess will Le pctitioned to allow the Philippine Legislature to call a constitutional conventicn to fraome a fu- ture independent republic in the Philip- pines. This is the result of the adoption in the Bouse today of a concurvent reso- luticn passed by the Senate three weeks ago. Washington, Nov 22nd. —Hous2 Dem- ocrats at a caucus late today agreed to vote solidly against the shipping bill, but representative O’Connor, lcuixiana. an- nouneced afterwards that e would not be bound by the Party’s action. Lausanne, Nov. 22nd. —Turkey found the great powers of Europe arrayed against her today on the question of Western Thrace, on which she demeands a plebiscite, and Greece, helpless and beaten by the armies of the Ottomran State, left a rather heated afternoon ses- sion of the Near Fastern conference with the fedling that cthe is so abandoned, as she feared The Turkish pilenipotentiaries returned to their bomes looking dejecied. One of them said, ‘‘they were all against us on the Thracean issue today, but it 1s net yet decided, we shall precbably have something more to say tomorrow’’. The The Bulgarian Prenmiier, M. Stamboulisky acknowledgedßulgaria’s necessity to have an outlet to the Aegian Sea at Dedea- gatch, promised by treaty. Greece has ad- mitted her obligations to grant Bulgaria port rights at Dedeagatech but has ex- plaired that the war with Turkey pre- vented -ealizaticn unt:]l now. . Stam- boulisky was inclined to support the idea of making Western Thirace autonomous, but the trend of the Allied leaders speeches was opposed to this. While bostile to a piebiscite, the ntente spokes- men favouren demilitarization of a con- siderable zone on the right bank of the Maritza viver which divides W “stern from Kasiern 'T'hrace, so that danger of. an armed conflict between the Greeks and Turksin the future, would be lessened. The ex Grecian Premier, Vi:nizelos, was at his best in defending the interests oi his eruntry. He frankly admitted that Greecce r ad made mistakes and added that she had suffered severely, as a conse- quence of those mistakes The burden of tne Turkish arguments was that posses- sion of both Eastern and Western Thrace was necessary to make Constantinople safe for Turkey and prevent incursions into Turkish territory. Lord Curzon, M. Barrere and the Marquis Garono (?) spoke, respectively, for KEngland, I‘rance, and Italy. The Thracean problem will be attacked again tomorrow by Ismet Pasha. The arrival of M. Voroviky, the Russian Commisary at Rome, indicates that Bol- shevik Russia has acceepted rhe invitation to come to Lausanne and discuss the pro- blem of the Dardanelies. It is reported that M. Arkovsky, President of the Ukraine Soviet republie, and M. Tchit- cherin, Russian Soviet Foreign Minister, will also come here. : De nerara, Nov. 24th.—Seaplane left for Dutch Guiana this morning.