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at an illegal p.ofir of more than rfour cents per pound. Tae sugar is said to be owned by a Canadian refining ¢ m- pany. Whaen e food administrator ac cused the broker of profiteering he cou- tended th-t the sugar could be sold here at apy price as it did not come under control of tiie United States Sugar Equal- ization Board. Mr. Williams informed the broker that under the lever law a conviction with two years’ imprisonment or a fine of $5 000 or hoth could be brouzht. He advised him to notify the Canadian company of the seri»us short- aze here and urge ihe sale ot the sugar . at a reasonable price. Shortly after Mr. Williams was told by t.¢ broker that the company’s fficials lLad instrueted him to ship the sugar back to Canada if he could not get the price they wanted forit. Mr. Williams p omptly communicated with Mr. Matthews, Assistant United States Atoorney, . ho said he would summon the broker veicre him. Helsingtc s, Nov. 4th ~ Petrog ad has been withoit bread for the last two - wesks., Taousands of persons are dying daily, aceord ing to information brought to He singfors vesterday by a Finn who escaped fromn a prison camp at Moscow on Uet. 121, The population of Petro- orad has faiilen below 100,009, he said. The schools were elosed cwing to Jhe lack of fuel. It is aiso reported that the prices of foond-stuffs now avauabic were g 0 dear as to te entirely out oi the reach of the poor. Herrings were dringing 20U rubles eacn and poiawoes 120 rubies per pound. Miiz was 80 rubles per pint and meat was ui obtainable. Montreai,. Nov. 4th. Outstanding an- nouncemer i, at the vietory lecan dinner at the Windsor hotel here last night were that Cardinal Mercier bad subscribed SIOO to the victory loan, and that the Sun Life A:ssurance had repeated their last year subseripdon of $10,000,600. The Cardinsg in making his subscription, said he did so because of his hopes for the future : nd prosperity of Canada, a country, he added, which bad done so gloriously in the great war. Montreal's total at a (onservative estimate is now $46.000,000. New York Nov. 4th.— Give us freedom from Gouver ment interference and we will see ther the American people get pienty of suzar, a refiner says. ““The Govt. has sicceeded in keeping down the price v* sugar, but it has caused the supply1o become inadequate for tte balance of the year, were it not for the Government control we would havz been buying Peruvians, San Domin- go, Demeraa, St. Croix, Venezuelians. These are going to Canada which is in a position to »Hic higher prices. The St. Croix and '‘enezuelian sugar crops, of course, are s¢mall but in the aggregate all toese svgars count. Phillipine su-. gars, which tormerly came to this coun- try, have bien sold to Japun at a prive far above what the United States » T 4 Bt2 KR Yl> re‘ ners could pav ander Govt. confrol. | As for the price going to 18 or 20 cents a | pound if controlis discontinued [ don’t be- | live i.. Higher prices narturally t:ndto | reduce buying. Government con rol may keep down prices. Without control, on the oiher hand it would always e possi- ble to get sugar at some price aad there would be less incentive to hoad. That | wouid tend to equalize the d mands. With no definite- action on the MeNary | sugar bill yet taken, 1t hecomes Increas- ingly probable -hat Governmen control he continued. The bill has not been ever reported out of the ecomittee. Last year he copiract with the Cuban producers, was sicned about October 15th, and the oreliminarvies had been arramged eaviy in September. The Federal Sugar RQefining Company is the only refining intervest tirat has appe.red before. the Agricultural Committee in opposition (o the MeNary bill. They are not the only refiners how- ever that tavour discontinuatior of eon- trol. The American Sugar Resin ng Co. has remained absolutely neutral and has advanced no argument for or against the bill. london, Nov. 4th.—A despateh to the EKxchange Telegraph Company from Johannesbhurge reports the purchase by an Anglo-American company ior one million pounds of all German priiate and state interests in the diamond telds of wwhat wase formerly erman South-west \frica. Some protests are expressed ov.r what is called the ''secrecy of the deal’” and alicgaticns are made inat the purcnase was effected through undue influence in politieal quarters. Berlin, Nov.. 4th.-——Dr. Glehssing, Burgomaster of Weisbaden, in the v~cu- pied territory, has been deposed by the Allied Commander-in-Chief on a charge of mal-administration. Blame for ‘he coal shortage of the city, is imputed to him and he has been ordered to leave the occu- pied regions. St. Thomias, Nov. 6th.—('able between Falifax and Bermuda interrupted Grenada, Nov. 6th.——Slight shock earthquake felt here 3 a. m. THE EFFECT OF LIGHTNIMNG ON HEAVY RUBBER TREES. It is well known that rubber tries are killed by lightning in the tropies iust as other trees are in northern countries. | Dr. Rutgers has given an account of | othar efféects of lightning. Insomo2cases | it appears that trees. may begin to die back at the tips of the branches, thus | suggesting the disease know hy that nare and due to a specific fungus. In . other cases the branches of the tre2s may | be only withered. In some instances, | sirips of bark bhave been killed. He I further reccras that trees affect2a by | lichtning are very liable to the ¢ttacks ‘ of borers, these evidently gaining anen- ! trance through damaged bark, even though the latter may not be quite dead. Vertical lightning scars are also seme. times cbserved on trees which have been struck by lightning. In vne or twe cases the ou er bark of treess affected by hoht- ning las scaled off, this result being known on the East Coast of Sumatra as Seur!’: in such ecases the tree are npt killed. (The India Rubber Jeouvnal, July 19. - 1919) . —Agricultural N ews. Resolution Be it enacted hy; the Colonial Couneil Jor St. Croix in Session ussembled. The Governer is hereby authorized to renew the sum of Fres. £5.000 from the Reserve Fund, tc be deposited in the Cglonial Treasury and to be applied in acceptance with the terms of Colenial Counceli Bill Ne. 12, £nd Session 1919-1920. That theloap thus auilicrized is to be secured by a mortgage bond to bear no interest. : . “hat the building acquired in accord- ance with the terms of Colonial Council Bill No. 12, 2nd Session 1919-1920 i to be rented for the sum of Fres. 125 per month. such rentals to be deposited in a redem tion Fund to be Kknown as the “Frederiksted High Scheol Redemption Fund’’. there to remain so deposited until such deposits equal the amount of the mortgaoe bond, when the total amount shall be deposited in the Colonial Treasn- ry and applied in satisfying the mortgage beld in the Reserve Fund. Thus duly passed at the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of the Colonial Council held Monday, October 20, 1919. Christiansted, St. Croix, October 22 1919. D. C. CANEGATA, ROBT. L. MERMIN. Se retary. Chatrman. The Ibove Resolution is hereby sanec- tioned and approved. Witness my Hand and the Seal of the Govern.ment of the Virgin Islands of the United States at St. Thomas the 27th day of Cetober, in the year 1919. (SEAL) J. W. OMAN, Governor. NORTHERN Assurance Company Limited OF LONDON GEO. L MARKOE Agent for Frederiksted’s Distric M. K. ARMSTRONG. Agent for Christiansted’s Districi Policies are not subject to a2verace.