Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-07
European.

European.
Dispatches from all the lighting
zones in the west declare that the
strength OF General Fochs reserves Is
being felt by the armies OF the Ger
man crown prince in his Md ram.
page to capture Paris,
East of the line running from Sois-
sons to Chateau Thierry, wnere the
Germans in continuation OF their
mighty strokes, gained several add.
uonal villages and then attempted
to proceed farther westward. magplti-
cent opposition was imposed by The
newly-strengthened lines and, with
terrific smashes, the French forces re-
captured Long Pont. Corey. Favereles
and Troesnes, vantage points in the
center OF the line Leading 10 the for
est of Villers Cotterets, which seems
to be the present objective OF the Ger
mans.
The Germans now have in their pos
session the village Of Vaurezis, lying to
the west OF Scissors. and farther
south, Saconin-Et Breuil, Chaudun,
Ley and Bouresches. the last named
directly west Of Chateau Thlerry. A
little to the southwest OF Chateau
Thierry the enemy has reached the
Marine
Just how many men the allies are
opposing against the forty.hve German
divisions actively engaged on the
Scissors Rheims front has not become
apparent
The discovery In Moscow and Pc
trograd Of large counter revolution
airy plot which stretches through the
whole Of Russia is announced in
Russian wireless message received
in London. To this plot is attributable
in part the mutiny of the C2echo-Slo
wax troops which have captured sew
eral important railway functions and
lines.
Moscow Russia, has been declared
in state Of siege, and il is reported
that energetic measures have beer
taken regarding the press
The question dominating all others
in Russia is that OF supplying the PEG
pie with bread now that Russia has
been deprived OF the Ukraine gran
airy
Aside from the flying drive OF the
German armies southwark, two other
significant incidents OF the tremen
dous battle are noted one Is that tbs
Germans have extended their attack t
the northwest along the Ailette river;
the other is that the battle ha. ex
tended to the east OF Rheims.
More than fifteen hundred German
and Bulgarian prisoners, among then
ihirty-three officers and a large guam
tity Of war materials have been cap
tured by Greek troops on the Macedo
MAN front according To official com
munication received in London from
Saloniki.
Casualties in the British ranks re
ported during the month Of May reach
ed total of 166,sO2 Killed or died
Of wounds-offccrs 1886, men, 90,
SIS; wounded or missing Officers, s,
1872; men, 1856 The total reported
during April was 52,745
Plots and Internal disorders Of all
kinds are increasing in Bohemia
Vienna newspaper says that what I.
happening in Bohemia resembles the
Lombardi and Venetian uprLsings ir
1S4S, except that the empire is ham
pered by her engagements in a waI
from which she does not see a way
TO escape
AT Chozen, Bohemia, crowds, exas
perated by police brutality set FIRE &c
the barracks and 20 the city hall
where the mounted police were lodged
Eight OF the officers we're burned tc
death.
Plunging southwark, the German
war machine in France has driven It's
wedge into the allied lines along the
front until its apex has reached the
Marine river, south OF Fere-en-Tard,
nois. near the place from which theJ
retreated two years ago, when Genera
Joffre threatened to exterminate them
The desperate efforts OF the French
and British to stem the tide against
the invaders have served only to slow
down the rate Of speed Of the German
advance on the western front: the de
tenders Of the heights north OF the
Marine seem to have been swept aside
in the rush OF the Germans ostensibly
with Paris as the objective.
The transport ship Leasowe Castle
has been sunk by an enemy submarine
and one hundred and one persons were
drowned. the British admiralty an
nounces. The vessel was sunk in the
Mediterranean on May &c. The Lea
HONN 1oSAIt Nho buliA III lJlt at Or
kenhead and was owned by the Union
Castle Mail Steamship company OF
London.
Internal disorder In Austra-Hungary
has paralyzed the projected Austrian
offensive against Italy Serious riots
have broken out again at Labach and
Gratz, where Slavs and Jugo-Slavs at
tackled Austrian troops.
Recent riots at Prague. Austria-Hun
gary, are said to have been decidedly
serious, 1t being estimated that there
we're over two thousand casualties.
Premier Clemenceau had the narrow.
,st escape possible from falling into
Ierman hands recently. He left Ger.
ain point on the front only few
minutes before the arrival of a pa.
rol OF forty Uhlans.
A French general was killed in an
ncounter with the Germans a few