Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-10-18
Washington

Haggald rom laca Of sleep and
nearly famiShed. The men Of the lost
battalion have been rescued after has
ng been surrounded Tor more than
tour days n the Argonne tores' 0alr
graphs the headquarters of the Ame
lean forces northwest OF Nprdun The
men are now recovering from then
narrowing experience
Under an agreement completed BE-
tween the postofhce department and
the3 Western Union Telegraph com
pany, the government agrees TO bay
all interest on outstanding bonds OF
the company all dividends and inter
est payments due on stocks and bonds
Of subsidiary companies. all taxes and
operating charges on the properly and
in addition the sum OF eight million
dollars annually
The smashing victory Of the Anglo.
American forces north OF 81 Quentin
may be paving the way fol early in.
yasion of Germany itself Striking
hints Of wholly new enterprise di.
rected al the upper Rhine valley. have
come from unofficial quarters in
France, and they follow repeated re.
ports from Switzerland that the civil
populations Of the Rhine valley towns
We're being removed by the German
authorities
While the constant hammering is
kept up in the north to pin the Ger
man armies there it may be possible
10 deliver new stroke on the Alsace.
Lorraine front that may swiftly de
velop into an invasion Of Germany it
self by way of the Rhine valley
The japanese steamship flirano
Maru Of 1885 ions gross has been
torpedoed and sunk. says dispatch
from "A British Port The vessel
was outward bound for Japan and car.
ritd about 200 passengers The vessel
was torpedoed and sunk BY German
submarine when about 300 miles off
the south OF Ireland There were a
few survivors picked up by an Amer.
lean torpedo boat
d. There were 80 men aboard the ri.
conderago. an American steamship of
$3.50 tons and all except the twenty
who arrived at An Atlantic Port" are
believed to have persisted The sur.
viyors got away in the only boat which
was not demolished BY the shell fire
from the submarine Seventeen of the
men reached port were members OF a
detachment OF soldiers detailed to
care for horses which were being
transported
Surgeon General Blue Of the United
States public health service sends out
the following Public health service
will mobilize with aid volunteer medi-
cal service corps all outside medical
aid required in combating present in.
fuenZa epidemic. Red Cross upon
specific request from this service will
mobilize nursing personnel and fur.
nish necessary emergency hospital
supplies which cannot be obtained 9th
erwise Whenever necessary public
health service will establish district
officers to cooperate with state Off
cials and distribute medical and nurs.
ing personnel.
Huge increases in the artillery pro-
gram have been decided upon by the
ordnance department, which has asked
the house appropriations committee
TO add s1,100, 900, 900 to its estimates
of 1855, 100000 to carry out its part
of the enlarged army program. The
war department has decided to pro.
vide nine big guns for each Of the
eighty divisions that America expects
to have in France next year.
The Moscow. Russia. government,
controlled by the Bolsheviki, has de-
nounced the Brest-Litovsk treaty with
the central powers because of the &C.
cupation of Baku by the Turks.