Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-19

been arrested and many or thein, III
Guiding 30 socialist members OF parlla'
ment executed Because OF the num-
erous executions there, he said, the
town of Sveaborg has been renamed
Gogotha. Finland is on the point OF
starvation, despite Its German friends,
and General Mannerheim. commander
Of the Finnish army, asked Mr.. Nor
rls, American minister to Sweden,
what chance there was for Finland to
get food from the United States. Mr..
Morris told him plainly 1t was very
slim so long as Germany held the
country under her control. Ostensibly
MS n measure to save food. the Finnish
government has ordered the expulsion
Of all Jews.
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When the news came of the assas-
sination of Count Won Mirbach, Ger
man ambassador TO Russia, In Mos
COW, at the instigntion Of II group of
social revOlutionists, there were
many predictions that the kaiser
would get revenge by sending great
army TO occupy the chief Russian
cities. and indeed It was semi-offlcial-
ly stated In Berlin that such would be
his course. But after. breaking off
diplomatic relations the chief Hun ap-
parenty thought better of 1t and
mild statement was issued hoping
that the Russian government md peO-
pie will succeed In nipping the pres
ent revolutionary agitation In the
bud II is not easy to see how Ger
many would gain much by further
grabbing In distracted and starving
Russia.
The pan-German party trlumphed
over its opponents and forced the
resignation of Foreign Minister Won
Kuehmann because Of his peace I'M
possible by force speech, and then
proceeded to pick Admiral Won Hintze,
the trickiest and most disreputable OF
Teuton diplomats, as his successor,
Great excitement in the reichstag re-
suited and the socialists agreed not to
vote the war credit, which could not
be passed without IT. ir aid, until The
new minister had announced his pol
At Intz Is Ia al In ~
militarist and the creature of Admiral
Won Trpitz As minister to China he
dlsgraced himself, and as minister to
Mexico he deliberately stirred up
row between Huerta and Carranza In
order to embroIl the United States.
The French press accepts the selec-
ton Of Won Hintze as evidence that
the mlltarists In Germany are strong
or than the diplomats and are deter
mined upon war TO the finish They
believe he will do the pan-Germans
much more harm than good.
Military operations Of prime lmpor-
lance last week were confined to Al
banla, n find Of which little has been
heard for n long time. There the
Italians and French got very busy and,
with the aid of British naval forces
IN the Adratic, started an offensive
that met with considerable success
and is still progressing as this Is writ
ten. Within few days the allied
forces had advanced more than TWEEN
ty-tve miles IN a battle front sixty
miles long, had captured Fieri, an i'm
portant town eight miles from the
Adriatc, and had practically sur
rounded Bcrat,, the chief city Of south
ern Albania. They also had occupied
mountain positions of great strategic
value. Before the week closed the
AustrianS had evacuated Berat.
This Albanian offensive was counted
on to have great political effect es
pecialy in Austria-Hungary and
among the small nations Of the Bal.
knns. Already II had caused evident
unenslneSs among the forces of the
central powers that face the allies
from the Adriatlc 10 Saloniki In
Macedonia they made several costly
and vain attacks on the allies. The
apparent objective Of the allies in Al
bnnln is the Shkumb valley and the
old Roman road, the Via Egnatia,
leading to the Vardar valley and open
Ing the way to movement toward the
east that would outflank the enemy
north of Monastlr.
II the AnStrans are deciSively de-
feated In this region the kaiser may
force them to accept Won Below as
their gcneralissimd, despite their pro
tests. The efforts to Germanlze the
Austrian general headquarters have
stirred up the already angry people
Of the dual kingdom Another row
there has been caused by more or less
open assertions that Empress Zta
ruined the offensive on Italy by pre-
venting the use of gas and otherwise
hampering the commanders. A big
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