Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-01
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European.
The Bolsheviki government in Rus
STA, represented by Nikolai Lenine and
Leon Trotzky, has acceded to the de-
mands of Germany and announced its
readiness to accept the hard peace
terms which Germany has laid down.
The Russian surrender seems abb
ject The Russians will Immediately
send delegation to Brest.Litovsk,
there to discuss with German repre-
sentatives the final details Of the peace
proposals and sign the compact
AT last accounts the German armies
in the east were giving no heed to
talk peace, but on the contrary, were
methodicaly pushing forward their en-
| tire line over more than 500.mile
front from the Gulf of Finland region
10 Volhynia.
The American and japanese embas
sizes and the Chinese Siamese and Bra
lillian legations are reported to have
left Petrograd for Vyatka and volog.
da and may go to Vladivostok,
Roumana has AT last entered into
peace negotiations with the central
powers for peace, becasue she is fore
ed to by being cut OF from her al.
lies
The British forces in Palestine have
captured the city OF Jericho, and Aus.
tralian troops have entered the city
This is the city famous in Biblical
lore because the walls fell down when
Joshua marched his army around the
city seven consecutive times in a.
many days.
Heavy artillery fighting on both
sides is reported on the western front
around Champagne and in Alsace. No
infantry fighting is reported
II is stated that the Germans have
shot down twenty,four airplanes and
two balloons in three days.
Official dispatches from Rome ind.
cate that the recent closing OF the
Swiss frontier by Austria is prepare.
tory TO movement Of troops to the
Italian frontier
Italian ayiators say that troops are
continually coming up 10 the Italian
frontier from the erstwhile Russo. Rou.
manian front.
Facing absolute subsection. the Boil.
sheviki are now reported to be beg
ging the Slays to fight. Lenine and
krylenko have issued appeals for
real revolutionary army and urge the
people TO lay waste 10 every place
evacuated
Berlin reports that in some instanc
es Russian regiments have deserted
and are offering their services to the
central powers
II is reported that the Russian navy
is completely disorganized.
Five entente allied airmen flying
over the Julian Alps found the town
of Innsbruck. Austrian Tyrol, was not
protected by ant.aircraft guns. The
airmen thereupon swooped down with
in 900 yards Of the ground. picked out
targets and copiously bombed them
Soldiers and civilians were surprised.
and many are reported killed.
stephen Pichon, foreign minister OF
France, made an address in Paris in
which he called America the savior
of the world"
An Amsterdam dispatch says that
Russian courier with the peace pro.
posals of the Russian government has
arrived in Berlin
British merchantmen sunk by mine
or submarine in the past week mum.
bered 10 OF these II were of 1900
tons or over and three were under
/ that tonnage
A Berlin dispatch announces that
the town of Rovno, Russia has been
cleared OF Russians Trains with
about thousand cars were captured.
Important railway and highway juno.
tons have been occupied.
Germans have passed through Wen.
den, SO miles northeast of Riga, and
are now before Wolmar, 20 miles to
the northeast Of Riga.
Two hundred and four Americans
lost their lives on the Tuscania, an
nounces a London dispatch.
One hundred and ten persons per
ished when the steamer Dives was tor.
pedoed in the Mediterranean on Feb.
ruary /, says a Paris dispatch.
Close relations between the German
embassy at Madrid and the most no.
torious anarchists in Spain have been
brought to light, according to The
Paris Daily Matin. 1t is added that
official Spain is shocked by the huge.
ness of German plots.
1t is impossible for the allies TO de
termine in advance how serious and
how prolonged will be the resistance
of the Russians to the advancing Ger.
mans but the allies are not banking"
on strong resistance to the Teutons.
British man power has increased on
the western front, and the allies out
number Germany at present but the
under secretary of war of the British
empire says this condition may not
last long, as Germany is rapidly bring
ing up reinforcements.
Control of the air In the American
sector belongs to the enemy. All the
American army officials admit this
freely. Control by Germany is too OBJ
sion.
A London newsparS" says that if
the German airmen knew that Ameri-
can airmen were waiting for them,
they would not fly so boldly over the
western front