Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
European

crowd assembled before the relchstag
building in Merlin calling for the abb
dication OF Emperor William and the
formation OF republic.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist
leader in Germany. who has just been
turned out OF jail, was applauded fran
lie was compelled TO enter
carriage filed with flowers, from
which he made speech, declaring the
time OF the people had arrived.
The liberation of Roumania has been
begun by the entente forces after
years occupation by the Germans.
Crossing the northwest portion of Bul,
garia at LON Palanka, French patrols
forced a passage of the Danube and
entered upon the Roumanian soil.
The Germans in Belgium and
France still are stubbornly resisting
the attempts OF the entent allied
forces TO break through their lines
and bring about an immediate col.
lapse OF their defensive positions.
on the northern Italian battle front
between the Brenta and Pave rivers,
the Austrians are being put TO the
test in a new attack by British, ltal-
ian and French trops
In Mesopotamia the British again
have gone on the offensive against the
Turks and al last accounts were max.
ing considerable progress.
In Albania and Serbia the opera
tions Of the allied forces are tending
toward the slow but sure evacuation
of the invaded districts by the enemy
forces.
In the northern French thester the
British are centering their efforts 10
the south Of Nalenciennes to cave in
the salient between the city and lie
quesnoy and move on toward the i'm
portant junction of Maubeuge
The British have taken more than
six thousand prisoners and many guns
in their new attack on the front be-
low Valenciennes.
At Escermain there was desperate
fighting between the British and Ger
mans. The British finally droe the
Germans out, and the town was lit
orally covered with dead Germans
The foundation stones Of the Hebrew
university at Jerusalem, Judea, re-
Gently laid in the presence OF General
Allenby and Representatives of the al
lied powers. are twelve in number one
for each of the twelve tribes of Is
real The university viii be situated
on the summit of the Mount OF Olives.
The success achieved by the allies
in the recent fighting has been very
great and will be pushed home to a
complete victory. King Albert OF Bel
GUM declared TO a correspondent OF
a Paris newspaper.
Emperor William conferred recently
with all the members Of the German
government. talking at length with
each individual, and then addressed
them in body
The address OF the chancellor in
the reichstag is severely criticised by
majority OF the newspapers
III the emperor must go. let him ga
at once says the Fraenkische Tages'
post OF Nuremberg. Bavaria, because
he must not think the German peo
i pie will continue the war for months
just to please him"
A Zurich, Switzerland dispatch says
Il is expected in Berlin that the pres
ident of the United States will not al
low himself 10 be fouted and ridiculed
by the existing German government.
The Germans are making fair
promises in the hour of their defeat
Valuable works of art belonging tc
museums and private owners in the
regions OF Cambria, Douai and Nalen
ciennes, now in the hands Of the Ger
mans, they say, will be returned un
damaged TO their owners after the
war.
Serbian trops are reported to have
broken the enemy resistance on the
line of Rajhani-Stalatz, and are fur
Their reported to have enter the massii
of Mecka and the voltage Of Cicevak
capturing 300 prisoners and important
material
The Serbians report the troops Of
the central powers to be retreating
on all fronts.
The first victory for the allied forces
in the Vologda region in Russia oc
Cured in the Ural region when the
Bolsheviki were completely routed and
retreated in disorder.
On October %, French troops con
tinued their advance to the north in
the Serbian campaign and entered Ne
gotin.
The entire country between Valen
cienes and Journal is as barren as a
desert as far as the personal property
of the French inhabitants is concern
ed. Liberated civilians say that the
retreating Germans took so much loot
that they staggered under the loads.
The Roumanian government has de
clared all the ports on the Black sea
under Roumanian control closed to the
vessels of the central powers.
Seventy persons were killed and A.
~ wounded in an explosion which oc.
Cured in factory at Dessau, on the
Elba,, 81 miles northwest of Berlin.
A state of revolution has broken out
In Sofia and street fights are occur.
ring between Bolsheviki laborers and
the troops and police. 1t is reported
that more than three thousand per.
sons have been killed. This informa-
ton is contained in dispatches from