Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-07-20

trouble makers only 60 on to other
localities and continue their nefarl0us
propaganda. Work Is at n standstill
In many of the biggest mining and lum-
Der camps Of the country.
The department of labor last week
created the United States public serv-
Ice reserve, for the mobilization Of
adult male volunteers for service In
employncnts Of every kind. public and
private, which are necessary to effec-
tive conduct of the war.
Russia's Drive on Lemberg.
Russla's re.awakened troops, direct.
ed by General Brusslloff and command.
ed by General Kornlloff, continued
their great drive In Gallcia last week
and inflicted tremendous blow on the
Austro-German forces by breaking
through their lines and capturing
Halicz. This city is regarded as the
key to Lemberg. the immediate objec-
tive of the Russian offensive, and last
year was unsuccessfully attacked with
Brlsslloff from the north. This time
he moved on II from the south and
took II with comparative ease, togeth.
er with a great number OF prisoners.
The German and Austrian armies were
separated and their morale so broken
that kornilon was enabled to use his
Cossack cavalry in the pursuit with
telling effect.
Some distance to the north the Rus.
slams hercely attacked in the PInsk
sector, gaining considerable ground,
and the activity Of their artillery In the
Riga region presaged nm attempt to
break that, the strongest part of the
Teuton line in the east.
On the west front the Germans
staged n successful drive against the
British close TO the Flemish coast fore.
Ing them back across the User river
In the dunes. British trenches we're
captured to a depth of GOO yards on a
front Of ] 400 yards. This German at.
tack may he part OF an ATTEMPT TO
reach Dunkirk, or II may have been
made To forestall n British drive along
the coast that would threaten the Ger.
man submarine bases.
There was tremendous fighting In
France, the Germans making desperate
attacks especially along the Chemln
des Danes. But the French withstood
the assaults stoutly and when they
were driven back anywhere, invariably
recapturcd the lost ground.
Germany's Internal Troubles.
Germany's internal ferment Is In.
creasing, the opponents OF Chancellor
Won Bethmann-llollweg nre growing
In numbers and boldness, and the cab.
met seems to be breaking up. But III,
this can have no immediate effect Oh
the prosecution of the war, for II ia
internal and the general staff, headed
by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. domi.
mates the entire imperial government.
Changes In the ministry mean little
more than the substitution of one set
of puppets for another, and even the
fall Of the chancellor will be OF only
academic interest to the outside world.
II would appear that the war must 90
on until the Kaiser, the crown prince
and the Prusslan milltaristic chiefs
are eliminated, or until the German mr..
mics meet such crushing defeats that
the people take matters into their own
means the same thing.
The main committee OF the relchs.
tag refused to vote n war credit unless
the government declared It's policy re.
peace and reform, and this the
government refused to do. Since the
demand Of the committee Is supported
by a majority In the reichstag, a min.
isterial crisis was inevitable. The EN-.
per0r himself went so far as to issue
a manifesto declaring for equal fran
chise In Prussia. This, II granted, will
decidedly weaken the dominance of the
Junkers In the Prussian government.
The attempt to restore the Manchu
empire In China met with dismal fall
ure, and now turns out to have been
by Germany. Another bril-.
liant stroke of foreign policy by Zlm-
hermann. The young emperor again
nbdlcated and General Chang Hsun.
his sponsor and the kalser's agent re-
ired to the imperial city section of
Peking, where he and his fast dwin-
ling army were hemmed In by the ra-
forces.
The weekly report of the British i'd
mlralty on submarine activities was
very gratifying, showing only II mer-
rhantmen We're sunk, while II others
that were attacked, escaped. During
The same period arrivals In British
ports were 2,S9S, and sallmgs 2,79S.
The American steamer Kansas was de-
itroyed by n German U-boat.