3 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 4

On Sunday, at St. Kitts and throughout the British West

Indies, there were celebrations of the three- hundredth anniversary of the first English settlement in the Caribbean Sea. In 1623 Sir Thomas Warner established a small colony on the island of St. Kitts, less than three years after the ' Mayflower ' landed the " Pilgrims " on the inhospitable shores of North America. Few parts of the world are so rich in historical associ- ations for us as the West Indies and yet, strangely enough, they arc comparatively neglected by British visitors. There is no more delightful holiday in the world than a two-months' tour of the Spanish Main and the Antilles.