Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-08-30
European.


mics are meeting with defeats which
spell disaster
Numerous towns have fallen and
enemy territory has been penetrated
to depth OF several miles by the
British southeast of Arras.
Additional good gains have been
made By the French in the envelop.
ment OF Noyon.
The entire Arras Albert road has
been crossed by the British
On all fronts on the west the strong
~ fortified positions where the Ger
mans saw disaster facing them If they
fell. we're stormed and captured. and
the Germans retreated precipitately
without burning any bridges behind
them
Interesting statistics issued from
London show that Great Britain leads
all the allies In the number OF ships
in the naval service--on patrol duty
and in actual conflict The figures
show so per cent for the British. IA
per cent for the American and per
cent for France
Al last the German press has given
up struggling against the truth. In
a short notice. which appears in vir-
tually all the papers, the Identical ma.
ture OF which suggests official inspira-
ton, the reluctant admission is made,
says an Amsterdam dispatch, that Sec
rotary Bakers figures regarding the
strength OF the American forces IN
France are about correct.
The Berlin Taeglische Rundschau
says that not more than 100000 Amer.
leans have up 10 the present been no
ticed on the western front
The allied armies have taken more
than one hundred thousand prisoners
since July Is, says Marcel Hutin, in
the Echo de Paris
The allies have damaged six Ger.
man armies since July Is, and the
British are now eating into the seventh
with the spread of the bnttle north
ward and over a front OF more than
seventy miles.
At me request OF Ira Nelson Nor
ris. American minister 10 Stockholm.
NJ Boevgren, Swedish minister Of jus
tice, has ordered that action be taken
against the newspaper, Aftonbladet.
of Stockholm, for having injured a
foreign power and making an attempt
to interfere with the amcable rela-
tions existing between sweden and
the United States
Franklin d Roosevelt assistant SEQ
Rotary OF the navy, who says I'VE have
passed the summit Of the mountain as
regards the war" told the French
press in Paris that there is absolute
necessity that all government minis
tiers and heads of departments see
the war with their own eyes IN order
10 understand its greatness As TO
the submarines off the coast the dan
ger points can now be said to have
been made safe, he opined
The violence Of the Japanese food
riots and the rapidity with which they
enveloped the country have astonished
the japanese and have convinced them.
though far removed from the center
Of the war that they cannot escape its
nor remain untouched
by the world movements which the
war has set in motion.
Anti-wealth demonstrations are de-
veloping in Japan. The property OF
the rich especially is being attacked
Residences OF number OF million
aires have been burned TO the ground
and immense damage done to property
u muchants dealing with people and.
in particular. those suspected OF ex-
,essive protlteering
German military leaders now have
become distinctly worried over the
OF revolution in Germany.
General Ludendorff. in captured Sc
,ret order, has taken steps TO employ
he assistance of his commanding Of
icers and various governmental agen-
Ties to help him stamp out the glowing
spark which has been seen
From scissors to the Belgian Dor
Ter the German armies in various i'm
Iortant sectors are being put TO the
est by the French and British-a test
hat bodies III for the Teutonic arms.
Nowhere have the Germans been able
o sustain the shocks,
The Germans have been compelled
o fall back northwest OF scissors,
tround Roye, in the Arras sector and
IN the famous Lys salient
The French in bitter fighting, have
'arried forward their line to an aver
Ige depth Of two and a half miles in
new offensive over fr,nt OF fifteen
md a half miles from Baily. on the
disc, to the Aisne, near Scissors.
Field Marshal Haig's forces are
,eeping up harassing tactics along the
,carpe, east Of Arras
The British in the Arras sector have
Idvanced their lines to the east OF
he village Of Fampoux.
Premier Clemenceau Of France told
ames Hamilton Lewis, senator from
Illinois, that the war will be over be
ore 1919 dawns. The premier paid
Ugh tribute to the Americans fighting
n France
Hundreds of persons were killed and
in a veritable battle between
.ettish guards and rioters during food
disorders in Petrograd, it is learned by
way OF Amsterdam.
Advices sent out from Japanese
'rovinces are to the effect that the
esidences of several milionaires have
zen burned.