Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-09-21
Washington.

extended TO the central powers
Washington.
Congressional plans, completed, con
template adjournment early in Octo
Der. Speed in the senate alone is es
sential to carrying this plan into ef
feet.
Appropriations for Red Cross SAM
tary units to assist local authorities
in protecting health about army camps
including $4,000 chiefly for eradicat.
ing malaria bear'ing mosquitoes around
Camp Gordon at Atlanta, were an
nounced by the American Red Cross
war council.
The Netherlands minister to the
United States, Chevalier W. l.. +. c.
van Rappard, has been recalled by his
government He called upon Secreta-
ry Lansing to announce the fact that
he has been transferred to a European
post and to ascertain il Mynheer van
Rosen, his successor, will be accept.
able TO the United States.
A dispatch from Montevideo, Uru.
quay states that Uruguayan marines
boarded all the German ships in the
harbor there. and seized them, as a
result of the government having heard
OF plans by the Germans to sink the
vessels.
Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria. died at
the capital city. Sofia. She had been
i'll for some time The queen had
taken an active part in the work OF
the Red Cross in the war
The administration trading with
the enemy bill. which passed the
house last July, has been passed by
the senate, with many amendments.
however, one giving the president the
power TO embargo imports and prohib
iting publication Of war comment in
the German language unless accom-.
panied by parallel column by trans.
lation in English
A dispatch from Buenos Aires. Ar.
gentina, recites that the downtown sec.
ton of the capital city was the scene
of the widest disorders in connection
with the anti-German demonstrations.
in which thousands OF Argentine cfti.
zens took part. Many OF those in the
mobs carried firebrands and, as a re-
suit, scores Of buildings were set on
fire.
The Liberty motor, the airpane en-.
CINE upon which the United States is
relying to establish definite air SUI
premacy over the Germans in the bat.
tlefelds Of France. has passed its final
test and is a complete and gratifying
success, Secretary OF War Baker has
in fifteen hundred word
contribution to the press.
The news of the great victory"
over a fotilla Of German submarines
proves a great mistake due to a ty.
biographical error in transcription OF
the official report Only one submarine
went down, and one steamer went
down.
Comptroller Williams isues a state.
ment asserting that investigation dis.
closes that the late ]. b. Martindale,
president Of the Chemical National
Bank OF New York. who died in July.
1917, was an embezzler and forger to
the extent Of about three hundred
thousand dollars
Presbyterian church authorities
complain to the war department that
restrictions on sale of intoxicants at
American canteens in France are very
lax, and ask the department to rem.
edy the evil.
The war department announces that
Sergeant NJ. G. Calderwood and Pri.
yate W. F. Branningan, both of Com.
pany F, Eleventh Railway Engineers.
have been slightly wounded by shell
fragments in France. They were on
duty when the accident occurred.
The war tax bill, the largest single
taxation measure in the history Of the
United States, has been passed by the
senate. 1t provides for levy some
what under $4,000. 900, 900, as compar.
ed with the $780,. $40, 900 proposed in
the bill as 1t passd the house, May %.
The bill will be returned to the house
and then will go to conference with
enactment promised within ten days
or two weeks.
The United States government has
extended Italy an additional credit of
ffty-fve million dollars. This brings
the total credit of Italy in this country
to $255 1000, 900.
Negro troops Of the national army
will be organized in separate units as
is done in the regular army and, as far
as possible, will be trained in the
states where they are raised. The call
for negroes to mobilize at their camps
will be postponed to allow the officers
at the camp to arrange for the organi.
zation of these separate units.
How German submarine hid be.
hind his schooner until it got within
range TO attack an American tank
steamer and later was sunk by the
tanker's gun crew, was told by the
captain Of an American sailing vessel
in IAN Atlantic port