Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-21
European.


The drive Of tho German crown
prince % Paris has been checked def
nitcly
The maneuyers OF the German com
mander- FOR he pas TWO weeks ap-
parenty has gained them nothing but
severe losses In men and supplies, and
the only gam has been on the Noyon
salient and the capture Of a few IN
important positions southwest OF Sois-
sons
The feeling still prevails on the
western from that the main effort OF
The Germans Is yet 70 BE- launched
ana whether It will be for Paris or the
channel ports is purely speculative
Scouting patrols report that the Ger
man armies on the west have been
largely reinforced by the men who
have been operating on the Russian
front
The herosm Of the veteran troops OF
the allied armies who in these last
days have inflicted such terrific losses
Oh ;hr ions, .; ~ .,.4.D" 49,. 49,.
given the foe q rude shock
Considerable artillery activity is re-
ported in the Hangard wood, south
Of the Aisne and in the sector between
Villers Cotterets and Chateau Thierry
There seems no doubt that the cen
trial powers will make one more et-
fort to capture Paris before the Amer
leans arrive in sufficient numbers 10
stop them
The central powers arc showing the
utmost concern about the numerical
strength Of the American troops ar.
irving on the western front and seem
70 be taking no interest whatever IN
what happens to the Bulgarian front
on the Grecian border
british casualties reported for the
week ending June II totaled 3i,l7l
officers and men.
In a recent memorandum issued by
the Austrian Mems Democratic
League. the immediate opening Of
peace negotiations in a neutral Coun-
try" is demanded
Sir Joseph Jonas, lord mayor OF
Sheffield, in 1900, and a steel man
ufacturer. was in the Bow street, Lon
don, police court on the charge that
with various other persons, whose
names were not known, he did OBJ
tain and communicate certain infOr.
nation prejudicial to the interests OF
the state and information useful to the
enemy and information relating to pro-
hibited places and things therein" Sir
Jonas was born in Germany and was
naturalized in 1876
One Austrian dreadnaught was de-
stroyed and second one damaged in
the torpedo attack made by Italian tor.
pedo boats upon the Austrian naval d.
vision near the DaImatian islands, it
is officially stated in Venice
The German admiralty, says a Lon
don dispatch, intends TO declare the
eastern coast Of the United States,
from Mexico to Canadian waters,
danger zone, and will warn neutral
shipping
A majority OF the japanese nation
does not believe that Japan and Ger
many will become allies after the pres
ent war
According to Vienna newspapers re-
ceived in London the Italians used a
sea tank" during their last attack
on Pola, Austria's naval base on the
Adratic. The boat was forty feet
long and six feet wide, propelled by
electricity There is an endless rotary
chain around the vessel fitted with
barbs which cut nets and other obsta-
Giles like the land tanks. The vessel
has two torpedo tubes.
The tobacco substitute supplied to
the German army has proved more
injurious than enemy gas attacks, II
has been stated by member Of the
German reichstag.