Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-04-19
Washington.


) against and denouncing the action o
II the United States in taking over the
Dutch ships in its ports has beer
: made public in the form Of memo
y randum, copy of which has beer
= sent by Secretary Lansing TO the Meth
erlandS legation. II Is shown 10 have
been an act Of necessity. and that in
+ stead of being an injustice the steT
results in real benefit to the Dutch
shipowners and people.
A dispatch from Monrovla the CAPT.
tai OF the negro republic OF Liberia,
says a German submarine OF the larg.
est sea going type on April 10 appear.
ed in that port and bombarded the
wireless and cable stations there. The
her deck guns into the wireless sta.
ton, causing much damage. She had
just turned her attention to the cable
office when steamer was sighted.
and the submarine took TO her heels.
In the first three days OF the Lib
erty Loan campaign $212,005.25 was
subscribed in eight OF the twelve fed
eral reserve districts, the treasury de-
partment announces
American marines have been landed
at Vladivostok as well as British and
Japanese forces, according TO adyices
from that place.
With American troops joining The
British and japanese naval forces in
protecting life and the vast stores OF
war material belonging to the allies
at the Siberian port OF Vladlvostok,
the enterprise is given distinctly in
ternational character which, II Is be
lieved in Washington, should quiet
fears OF the Russians and should have
reassuring effect upon them.
The sedition bill, prohibiting under
penalties Of 20 years imprisonment
and $1,000 fine, language or acts OF dis
loyalty or obstruction Of the army
draft and Liberty Loans, vas passed
by the senate without record vote.
/ It now goes to conference between the
house and senate and final enactmnt
is expected soon.
Reference in Vienna dispatch to
the Berlin Tagebatt 10 peace discus
sions carried on at Vienna by PRO
fessor Anderson" OF Washington, has
puzzled Washington officials But il
! is recalled that months ago, just be-
! fore the United States declared a state
of war with Austria. Hungary, man
named Anderson transmitted report
on conversations he had held with
Count Andrassy, former Austrian
premier, and Count Aponyl, Hungari
an statesman, for many years identi.
fed with The Hague tribunal and
movements in behalf OF universal
peace
A message from Zurich says Chan
cellor Hertlng has been called TO Ger
man headquarters by the kaiser TO dis
cuss the revelations concerning the
Austrian emperor's opinion about AL.
SAGE and Lorraine
Felix TaSkowsky, former quarter.
master on a small steamship in gov.
eminent service, died in oil fumes lat
an Atlantic port in vain attempt
to rescue two civilians doing repair
work in compartment in the hold.
The repairers did not appear after
some time had elapsed and Taskowsky
volunteered to be lowered into the
hold, where he found the men uncon.
scious As he was being drawn to
the deck with one OF the reparers
he lost his hold and fell 10 his death.
Administration officials are watch
ing very closely developments along
the Mexican border. The massing OF
Mexican federal troops near Fort
Hancock, Texas, and the sniping re-
ported across the border from dozen
sections OF the Big Bend country, has
again attracted attention to the dan
ger OF trouble there.
II is expected that within the near
future Germany will attempt to bonn
bard England across the channel with
converted naval guns of the type with
which they carry on their long.range
bombardment Of Paris.
American troops on the front to the
northwest of Toul beat of the heavi-
est attack yet delivered against them
when the American lines were assault
ed by 500 shock" soldiers. The enc
my was completely routed and suffered
heavy losses.
Washington military observers opine
that Germany il trying to hack her
way to the sea. They say that the
Germans are driving against the Brit
ish along the Armentierres and Ypres
line and against the Belgians in the
Mercken region in an effort to open
the road to the coast.
France has been called upon to aid
in fastening the movement OF Ameri-
can troop across the sea by sending
additional officers for the training
camps in the United States.
Sir John Foster Frazer, member OF
the Canadian parliament, in an ad-
dress in New York City. said that the
United States would have million
and half soldiers in France by Christ.
mas.
Grave warnings are being sounded
against German propaganda. 1t is
pointed out that this method was part
ly successful in Italy and wholly sue
cessful in Russia.
BY vote of "a to 25 the senate has
denied the legal right of organized la
Dor engaged in war work to strike for
higher wages or better working con-
ditions during the war.
For the protection of the Atlantic
trade routes to southern Europe, the
United States with the consent Of Por-
tugal has established a naval base on
the Azores islands.
II is learned that the Mexican ban.
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