Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-01-17
Washington


Memorial services for Theodore
Roosevelt will be held at the capitol
on February 8.
The injunction suit brought by the
Commercial Cable company and the
Commercial Pacific Gable company 10
restrain Postmaster General Burleson
from taking over for the government
their respective cable lines controlled
by the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany was dismissed by Federal Judge
Hand in New York City. Counsel fer
the companies announced that an ap-
peal would be taken.
Battles between strikers and police
are raging in Bunos Aires, the capltai
of Argentina. There was particular
ly sharp conflict in front of the postof-
fee. If the fighting spreads in this
dis trict it is probable that 1t will be
necessary to close the cable office.
Over one hundred people are report
ed to have been killed and many
wounded in the first days fighting in
Buenos Aires.
The shipping interests of the coun'
tr yhave gone on record as opposing
the establishment of secretary OF
transportation and federal incorpora-
ton OF railroad companies, as advocat-
ed by railway executives, and propose
that the rates be made sufficiently lib
eral to guarantee proper maintenance
of railways and ample returns to Sc
curity holders.
Loyal Russian troops, operating un'
der the authority of the Omsk govern.
ment. have defeated large Bolsheyik
army. capturing thirtyone thousand
prisoners and large quantities of war
material, according to telegram from
the Omsk authorities to the Russian
minister at Stockholm.
American and allied operations in
Russia are friendly and not hostile TO
the Russian people, although in op-
position to the German Bolshevik fore
es, Chairman Hitchcock of the senate
foreign relations committee. said in
an address replying to the recent de-
mand of Senator Johnson of California
for an official statement of the Amer.
lean policy in Russia
All restrictions on the importation
of corn and rice have been removed
by the war trade board. At the same
time the board announces it will con
slider fayorably applications for the ex
port of rice and for licenses for the
shipment of jute and jute products, ex
cept yarns and nitrate bags, TO all
destinations.
Casualties in the French army, ex
Guiding colonial troops, up to Novem
Der /, were 4,762, 800, according to Of
fetal figures made public by the high
commission Of France to correct con
fiicting reports hitherto published.
Figures made public by the ordnance
department of the interallied bureau
of statistics show that the production
-of munitions in this country had grown
so rapidly that in the last month:
of the war the United States was fal
ahead of Great Britain and France.
A dispatch from Coblenz says thai
ten million German marks arrived
there from Berlin by special train, thu
sum being the first payment by thu
German government of the twenty-flv,
million marks due in January for tn,
expenses of the American army of oc
cupation.
The royal train with President anC
Mrs. Wilson and party aboard stopped
at the station of Santhia, almost mid
way between Milan and Turin, wher,
1t remained until the next day, in or
der TO permit of a good nights res
for the president.
President Wilson has called on con
gress Immediately to make available
to him an appropriation of one hun
bred million dollars for the purpose O
providing food and other urgent sur
plies to the starving and crushed pee
pies OF Europe.
Naval guns and gunners placed OF
American merchant ships to protec
them against German submarines ar
being removed as rapidly as the yes
sells reach home ports.
Germany has turned over to tn
American authorities for the curren
expenses of the occupying forces GA
100000 marks, all told.
President Wilson, according to pre-.
= ent plans, intends to leave Europ
about February IL for the Unite
: States. The president not only il
4 tends to be in Washington for the cloi
ing sessions Of the present congress
q but to deliver several addresses COZ
Q corning the settlement of the war .n
Q establishment of a peace which 1t
g hoped will be durable. After March
I he expects to return to France.
i After his visit to the vatican in Rom
President Wilson returned to tn
: American embassy, whence he drov
q with Mrs. Wilson, to the America
Protestant Episcopal church.
+ American troops fighting desperat
: ly near Kadish. Russia. have drive
: back Bolshevik troops which made a
. advance there. The Bolshevists ais
. Launched attacks on the Omega sectt
I and bombarded the allied front.
Fl Col. Theodore Roosevelt, twent
. sixth president Of the United State
Twas laid to rest without pomp or CO
emony in Youngs Memorial cemeteI
lat Oyster Bay, January 5. The Epi
copal burial service was used.
!, Count George r. Won Hertling. Ii
j former imperial German chancello
i died at Rupholding, Bavaria, recent
HE had been II Tor six days.
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