Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-15
European.

According 10 Captain Pearse, who Is
member Of the Red Cross, says a
Melbourne dispatch, a British gunboat
surprised German prize crew aboard
the British vessel Turitella while they
were laying mines of Perrin. The Ger.
mans took to small boats and blew up
the Turritella while Chinese were in
the stoke hole and engine room. The
gunboat captured the Germans who
were recently tried at Bombay for
murder
The last details relative to the peace
signed with Finland shows that from
the Arctic ocean TO the Black sea the
German power is complete. Semiofti.
cial reports from Berlin also claim that
Germany has acquired direct free
route TO India via Russia, Persia and
Afghanistan.
II is reported that Finland has ask.
ed Emperor William TO place his son
Oscar on the Finnish throne. This.
as was indicated few days ago, alb
solutely deprives Russia OF both
shores of the Gulf of Finland and
makes Pctrograd virtually an inland
city, so far as commerce is concerned.
In his address TO the British house
OF commons Andrew Bonar Law.
speaking of the military situation. said
that the dropping out OF Russia deep.
ly affected every theater of war ex.
cept that in the German colonies, out
Of which the Germans had been com.
pletely driven.
Eleven persons were killed and for.
ty'six others were injured in an air.
plane raid on London. says an off.
cial announcement
Great Britain's loans to her allies
up to February 8 totalled G1.964. 600.
600. This has been announced in the
English house of commons by Andrew
Bonar Law, chancellor Of the ex.
chequer.
The Germans have transferred thir.
ty divisions from the Russian front.
The allies still have slight superi.
ority in men and guns on the western
front but there is possibility that
the appearance OF Austrians there
would change this. More troops NAV
be brought up from the Russian front.
but, OF necessity, they will be OF in.
ferior duality.
German reinforcements continue to
be sent up behind the lines in Bel.
GUM and France. At present the Ger.
mans have sixteen more divisions than
the allies along this front, but the
allied troops are numerically stronger
and also hold the upper hand in ri.
hes, guns and aircraft, but this SUI
periority is diminishing.
From Flanders to the Swiss border
artillery duels OF more or less yio-
lence are taking place on various
sectors.
A preliminary peace treaty between
Routlania and the central powers has
been signed. Under the terms OF the
agreement Roumania cedes the prov.
ince OF Dobrudja as far as the Danube
to the central powers, and undertakes
to further the transport of Teutonic
troops through Moldavia and Bessara-
bia to Odessa.
Official announcement is made by
the British admiralty that the Brit.
ish armed mercantile cruiser Calgari.
an was torpedoed and sunk on March
l OF the Irish coast. Two officers
and as men were lost. There we're
6lO persons aboard, nearly five hun.
dred OF whom have been landed at an
Irish port. The Calgarian was struck
by four torpedoes.
In Little Russia, il is announced
that the AustroHungarian forces are
still going forward against the Boil.
sheviki troops.
Japan Is not only ready to take Wig.
ofois steps in Siberia, but has init.
mated thai she would welcome the as.
sistanee o. the Chinese in operations
which win have for their objective the
safeguarding ef the entente allied in.
terests in the FaT East.
Again the Germans in Lorraine have
attacked the American troops an1
again they have met with defeat. Not.
withstanding the heavy snow and the
previous repUlses they had met with
in their effort to penetrate the Aneri.
can positions. the enemy in the Toul
sector essayed surprise attack in
considerable force.