Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-03-28
Washington


Washington
Decision Of the war department 10
proceed with the purchase Of the sites
Of fifteen army camps and thirteen
balloon in hying fields over The coun
try Is announced by Acting Secretary
iCrowell. Less than fifteen million dol.
lars viii be involved and ii will not
be necessary 10 await action by con.
gress, as the war department nov has
the necessary funds
Twentyseven camps atnd fifteen
aviation fields will be abandoned. Or.
ders already have gone OH tor the
abandonment Of twenty of The clmp-.
Including nearly all Of the National
Guards training contcrs set up after
the United States declared var On
Germany
y is definitely announced by tie war
department that only two fying field
actually will be used in training army
aNldlorS IN peace time
Dispatches from London announce
that wireless telephony has teen p+.
tabished between Canada ANA ireland
General Pershine has notified me
war department that the orr acond
Rainbow and The twenty.sx'h fNrw
England National Guardl divisions
will sail from Brest between March
2S and April 10
General Pershing cables that II viii
not be possible 10 send home The scy.
eniy-seyenth Now York rational
army division before Anril = uaeas
German shipping becomes available
sooner than now anticipated
Troops returning from France dur.
ing The week ended March IA number.
ed 5945i the LARGEST total for any
week since the armistlce was signed.
Reports If growing American
feeling in eastern Siberia have been
for some time in the hands Of the
state department The renors came
from both American Diplomatic and
military representatives in Siberia.
and show that they have been stirred
uu BY The Japanese and British com
mander who oppose the policy Of the
United States--thai is, the United
States refuses TO commit itself to any
faction in the Russian muddle.
Congressman Avian r Fuller Of
says Japan planned 10
Join Germany against the allies. but
y hen she learned that the United
States was deadly in earnest she at
once changed her mind
After successful trials OF new Brit
sh dirigbles Of the rigid type Of con
strnction, the government Of Great
Britain, according 10 the London Daily
Mail, has ordered the building of two
enormous arships. Each will be SOo
Get in length will have capacity
If three million cubic feet
The League to Enforce Peace an :
lounces through its Washington head
quarters that Attorney General Pal
ner is preparing 20 make a series Of
speeches in support of the proposed Z
for a league Of nations I
Organization OF a cooperative cot !
on export corporation with capitalize
ion OF perhaps fifty million dollars, :,
$ being advocated by Governor W P.
} Harding of the federal reserve y
,oard =
The American embassy at Mexico
lily has been instructed by the state
department. to request the Mexican :,
government to take every possible step :
0 insure the protection OF American ="
itizens in the territory of northern
fexico. where Whilst bands are report a a
d to have become active again. :.
Figures made public by the war de-
artment show that up TO March Ia =,
I2.27S men had been brought home "
ON Europe, .,
Representative Edward L. Hamilton ..
Michigan has informed the state :,
apartment at Washington that he mas Q,
zen told by Warren & Co. that EN- ~
oyees Of the company's ranch at Oil r,
S, Chihuahua, were held W Martin -.
,pez, villa leader who demands r.;
e thousand dollars ransom under II
reat Of killing the prisoners and de- N
owing the ranch. The message said %,
2 foreman OF the ranch was endeav' -,
ng to raise the money. "a
There has been rioting at Tanta,
ypt. an important town on the Nile. Do
miles above Alexandria. the capt.
of the province of Gnarbiya, in con- ha
,tion with the disorders which have we
,urred there. Twenty-Five casualties IN,
reported In dispatch from Cairo. Nc
farmer or q merchant who has 90,
ton for sale must either take the toe
e offered him or he must hold his o,s
ton in the hope Of obtaining a high II,
price. and lie has no assurance that 80,
win get higher price By holding a.
! cotton spinners have their own III
xnIzafion t|Aos< vile N a ! eottou H.