Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-08-01
Foreign

Inc HERMAN premier HdS lSSucu u
warning to the country against hasty
revolution. He admitted that the great
masses Of the people had just ground
for discomfort and said It was the gov.
ernment's task TO alleviate their suf.
ferings.
Bulgarian expressions in eastern
Macedonia loom up as ominous as the
Turkish atrocities in Armenia. Dur
ing the period Of occupation OF that
territory they reduced the population
by almost one hundred thousand, OF
which thirty.two thousands were IN
deaths caused hunger and ill.treat'
ment. This statement comes from the
inter-alled commission.
Twenty thousand Russians, many OF
them barefoot. and without rifles and
unsupported by heavy artillery com
pose the northern Russian army, the
front of which extends from the Fin
nish coast to Pikov, and which is driv'
ing back toward Petrograd Bolshe'
yik army four times as large, says a
Paris statement.
A new political party has been born
in Cuba. formed by coalition OF the
most prominent leaders in the Liberal
and Conservative parties the purpose
OF which is to prevent interference OF
other nations in Cuban affairs.
Sixty Germans from Cologne Der
lin and other cities have been arrested
al Coblenz in connection with an al.
legged plot to defraud the government
of millions of marks by eliminating
competitions at auctions Of army sup
plies
A serious military revolt is reported
from Croatia, which is said TO be TAX
iIg the form of a movement for sepa
ration from Serbia and the formation
OF republic. The railroads and tele
graphs are tied up from Casktorneys
southwark.
1t is possible that former Emperor
William may not be tried in London
it has been announced in the uppsi
house.
The house Of Lords OF Britain has
passed the peace treaty and the Anglo
French treaty through all stages.
King George is eager to show ap
preciation Of the services of David
Lloyd.George during the war. George
will not accept peerage, and 1t is
stated that the king may create him
Knight of the Garter, the highest
gift the king can bestow.
Henry Morgenthau, former United
States ambassador to Turkey, has been
made a commander Of the Legion OF
Honor by the French government.
AS protest against the increase
Of six shillings in the price of coal,
which came into effect following the
refusal of the English miners feder
alton to accept compromise on the
wage and other questions, thousands
of MINER in the Mansfield district OF
Nottinghamshire refused to go down
into the pits.
Lloyd-George told the British house
of commons, replying to his critics
who believe that the ex-kaiser should
be tried in neutral country, that the
ex-kaiser must be treated as a crimi
nal. and that whoever comes to Brit.
ain for trial will receive a trial equal
to the highest traditions of the Brit.
ish nation, and there are none higher
in the world"
Lloyd-George, British premier, says:
IF war is to be abolished 1t must
be treated not as an honorable game
with the prospect of personal glory,
but as crime"
The British house of commons
unanimously passed the second read.
ing OF the peace treaty.
Two hundred thousand Yorkshire,
England, miners are out on strike for
an increase in wages.
The fu.i peace conditions of the
allied and associated powers are now
in the hands of the Austrians. The
first section of the terms were pre
sented to the Austrian delegates t
st. &c, lain on June 2, The final
sections were delivered to them at
the same place without ceremony, by
M. Dutasta, secretary general of the
peace conference.