, 1913-08-09

announced of Law Historian Ludwig Hot
berg.
Herr Eric Schaeffer has been appointed
Police Assistant at Frederiksted.
Twenty thousand persons were present
at Aarhus at the funeral of the late Member
of the FoIketing Sabroe, who was killed
III the recent railway accident near Esbjerg,
Jutland.
The "St. Croix" left London to-day.
London, Aug. 8lh-The "Daily Mill" APP
proves of Sir Edward Grey's statement re-
gnrding Eng!and'S abstention from the forth
coming Panama Exposition at San Francisco.
The "Eveuing Standard" comments similar
ly, but f"vours exhibiting, because Sir Ed
ward Grey's statement will not convince
either Engiishmen or Americans, and will
leave al unpleasant impression, therefore it
faVours reconsideration.
At Cowes the schooner "Margherita" won
the Empelor's Cup.
The Duchess of Connaught has become
suddenly i'll, but it is believed to be merely
a temporary indisposition. The DAILY Elk
press says that the Duke and Duchess will
sail for Canada on October seventeenth, i'm
mediately after the wedding of Prince Ar
thur.
The DAILY Mail" Gays the Admiralty will
build ten more airships and two hundred
water planes, to assure England the same
primacy in the air rs Oh the water.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, represent
ing the King, opened the international Me-
deal Congress, for which thousands of the
worlds leading physicians have assembled,
us also hundreds of women doctors, instead
of the dozen who attended the last Con-
gress held in London.
A demonstration was made by suffragettes
III the neighhourhood, but the police exclud-
ed them. Sin Edward Grey made a stirring
address after Prince Arthur of Connaughl's
opening speech, and Sir Thomas Barlow, in
his presidential address, paid q special tri-
butte to the United States for conquering
the tropical diseases Of yellow fever, malaria
and sleeping sickness in Panama and the
Philippines.
Messrs. Vardon, Ray and Reid have sailed.
and will compete for the United States Golf
Championship.
On account of the difference in their reli-
gions, the Earl Of Rocksavage and Miss Sybil
Sassoon, a daughter of the late Sir Edward
Sassoon, were married at a registry office,
only the necessary witnesses being present.
Dispatches from the Near East state
that the Balkan Allies have agreed upon
NV iii - PN"NSJ "Iph y ~
to occupy Sofia on Saturday unless BuIga-
Tia accepted Che p%roffered frontier. Bulgaria
obtains more territory in Northern Macedo-
MIA than the Allies wished to concede and
also sixty miles of HGgean coast, which will
enable the construction of a railway from
~PhilIppopelis to a seaport, nevertheless Bull
garia resents the loss of Kavala to Greece.
The problem of the expulsion of Turkey
from Adrianople remains unsolved.
The Chimes" says the Treaty of Peace
is merely a provisional settlement,
Russia and Austria will oppose the cession
of KnvaIa to Greece, and the Power will
insist on revising the Treaty to meet their
views, otherwise a third Balkan war is pos
sible.
New York, Aug. 9Th Mr.. Mears, a re-
preventative of the New York Sun" has ar
rived here after completing a journey
around the world, having covered u ,O66
miles III thirly-hve days, twenty hours,
forty three minutes, or nearly four
days under the previous record of thir-
ty-nine days, twenty hours, by NJ. jaeger
schmidt, u representative of the Paris OK
celsior' in 1911, although the latter trav.
elled two thousand fewer miles. Mr.. Mears
spent eight hundred dollars on his journey,
aud Mr.. JaegerSchmidt fourteen hundred
and twenty six.