Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-19
Washington.

Washington.
President Wilson, in behalf Of the
Liberty Loan, has issued proclama
ton setting aside October "A AS Lib
erty Day and urging the people of the
nation to assemble on that day in then
respective communities and pledge tt
one another and to the government
that represents them the fullest Meas
ure Of financial support
In the presidents proclamation
anent the setting aside of October q
as Liberty Day, he says: Let the re
suit be so impressive and emphatic
that II will echo throughout the empire
OF our enemy as an index OF what the
United States intends to do to bring
this war to victorious conclusion.
The requisition by the American
merchant marine will include cargo
ships of more than $500 tons dead
weight capacity and passenger yes
sells of more than $500 gross tons reg
lister. The limit will probably be low.
cred TO include craft OF more than 1900
tons.
Representative Kahn Of California.
the Republican who led President VIII
sons forces in the house when the
army draft law passed, says a new
draft act will have TO be passed at
the next session OF congress II Is
contemplated TO have every man be-
tween the ages OF an and u.
Secretary Lansing has made public
more of Ambassador Bernstorif's
treachery This time it is shown that
he was engaged in plots to blow up
| Canadian railroads and TO use Irish
Americans in the United States for
carrying on sabotage on their own
countrymen.
Government control Of foodstutls has
been extended to take in virtually all
the essential articles OF diet by a
proclamation of the president
After November | the manufacture
age, storage, importation and distribu-
ton of some twenty odd prime com
modities will be licensed However,
many small dealers will be exempt
An agreement between the war m
dustries board and steel manufactur.
ers fixing maximum prices for steel
products about a third under existing
market prices. has been approved by
the president.
The embargo on coal shipments to
Canada has been lifted by order of the
president.
England will renew loans on Ameri-
can farms. The letter from the Brit.
ish government instructing British
companies to call one hundred million
in mortgages has been reScinded. The
1oney was to have been used by the
British authorities for war purposes
The credit the United States govern
ment has extended Britain more than
offsets any money British capital has
invested in the United States
With the swearing in of nine new
cabinet members the members Of the
Liberal party who see in compulsory
military service the only solution for
bringing forth the full strength Of the
Dominion of Canada in the prosecu.
ton Of the war have joined hands with
Sir Robert Borden, says an Ottawa,
Ont, dispatch.
Admiral Mayo, cUmmander-n-Chief
of the Atlantic feet, and his stan have
returned from England where they
participated in naval conference
with the allies. This announcement
is authorized by the navy department.
No details OF the conference have
been made public.
After four spent in the center OF
Europes colossal struggle Pleasant
A. Stovall. of Savannah, Ga, United
States minister to Switzerland. de-
clared on his arrival "at an Atlantic
port that the economic situation in
Germany is most acute and that he
believes the backbone of German re.
sistance has been broken.
Food pledge week set for October
81 to q has been postponed to the
week OF October 2S TO November 4 by
Food Administrator Hoover, at the re.
quest of the president, so that il will
not conflict with the final week OF the
second Liberty Loan drive,
The Ecuadorean secretary of for
egn affairs sent a cablegram to the
Ecuadorean legation at Liman an
nouncing that Doctor Perl the German
minister to Peru and Ecuador, resi-
dent at Lima, will not be officially
received by the Ecuadorean govern
ment in case he attempts to go to &c
uador. This action Is no surprise Ia
official Washington.
The food administration announces
that President Wilson will issue an
executive order requiring that manu-
facturers and distributors of some e
fundamental foods operate under Ii
cense restrictions designed to prevent
unreasonable profits and to stop specu
lation and boarding.
Car shortage leads labor troubles as
a factor in reducing the country's Goa
supply,
The food administration has held M
less than two hundred conferences
and II is pointed out that il talk will
reduce the high cost OF living, thu
country has monopoly on talk tests
Vice Admiral Sims has cabled tn,
navy department that an American pa
troll vessel, on duty at night in tn,
war zone, had fred on an Italian sub
| marine which failed to answer recog
milton signals. One officer and on,
enlisted man were killed before tn,
mistake was discovered