Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-09-13

oluiionlsts in Moscow is being carried
out with II heavy hand About five
thousand of them have been arrested
! anu sentenced to death, and It Is said
they VIII be executed II their party
shows any further opposition TO the
soviet government. The streets OF
Moscow are under the strIctest mill.
tary guard.
Details Of the supplementary Russo.
German agreements have been made
public. Germany promises to eyacu-
ate all occupied territory east of Ii
vonla and Esthona MS soon as boun.
daries nre established, and to get out
OF all other territory east of Germany
when Russia has fulfilled her tinan.
cinl obligations, which must be with.
In four months. Russia IL pledged to
night against the entente forces In
northern Russia, and Germany prom
ises that Finland shall not attack.
Russia renolinces It's sovereignty over
ESlhdnia and Livona, but Is TO have
free transit to Reval, Riga and Win.
dau.
An attempt to assasSinate Ncolal
..enlne. soviet premier, was made by
n girl In Moscow. but at last reports
he was still alive though In serious
condition. Very likely his death
would be godSend to Russia.
There Is not much to say of the war
on the Italian, Albanian and Greek
fronts. Small engagements are nu-
merOus, but no decisive operations have
been started lately. In Albania the
retirement of the allied line for u short
distance Is explained by the necessity
OF preparing for winter by occupying
certain dominating heights. Austria
has not attempted anything important
In Italy, possibly because she is too
busy trying to settle her internal trOu-
bles, or because of the call on her for
troops to help out the sorely-pressed
Germans In France. Several Austrian
divisions have been identified on the
west front. Meanwhile the Italian
alrmen. aided by American flyers. have
been doing lot of bombing Of Aus
trian towns, railways and naval sta
tIonS.
According to dispatches from Mu-
Mich by way OF Geneva Count Won
HertlIng, the imperial chancellor, re
signed Thursday. giving poor health
as the cause of his action.
From Cologne came the news that
the commandment Of the Brandenburg
province had placed the province, In
Guiding the city of Berlin, under mar
tial law In order to stop the Invention
and circulation of untrue rumors cal
culated 10 dlsquiet the popuace."
ID
General March said last week that
more than 100000 American troops
were landed in France during August,
and that up TO the first of September
more than l,6O0,0oO had embarked for
the various fronts, including those
sent TO France, England, Italy and 81
IBERIA. There has been no official men
ton Of late of the First American Field
army. and observers In France and IN
England believe II Is being prepared
for great drive, Of which the present
big offensive Is but the preliminary.
n
All preparations have been com
pleted for the registration Of men be-
tween the ages of eighteen and twenty
one and thirty-one and forty-fve, I'M
der the new draft law. General Crow
der has called on the people to aid in
making the registration a complete sue
cess. and, so far as the older men are
concerned, has given assurance that II
very large proportion Of them will not
be required to go to the front. The
young men. he and most others believe,
VIII be only too glad to get into this
greatest and most righteous of all
wars.
Spain has not yet come to the break.
ing point with Germany, but another
Spanish vessel having been torped0ed,
has decided to seize German informed
ships without further parley. The
tone Of the press there. and also In
other neutral countries, Is becoming
distinctly proally.
American shipynrds set record
during August. turning out 68 ships
aggregating $40, l4a dead weight tons
F0rty-four were of steel. The total
tonnage built for the shipping board
has now passed the two million mark.
British merchant vessels completed
during August amounted to 124,875
gross tons. The new construction In |
the allied countries Is now well ahead |
of the destruction by submarines.