Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-25
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THE WORLD over
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AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
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Foreign

The Italian newspapers announce
that former Premier Giolitti has been
requested to form cabinet to sue
coed that of francesca Nitti, which
resigned June 8.
Former Italian Premier Nltti has
been given passports and will proc
ably spend a while in the United
States to rest and recuperate.
The reported returns in the county
council elections in Ireland show a
Sim Fem victory greater than was
expected. The Sim Feiners formed a
compact with the Nationalist and La
borites, and won fifty.two out Of
sixty-nine seats.
The Austrian cabinet, headed by
DR.. Karl Renner as chancellor, which
has held office most of the time since
the armistice, has resigned. Failure
to agree with the Christian Socialists
is given as the cause.
Constable Carroll was shot dead
on the streets by . party Of armed
men in Limerick, Ireland. He is the
fiftieth police victim since January
81.
A mail train was recently held UP
near Killarney Ireland, and the mail
bags seized.
Anti-Boshevik forces in the Crimea
have begun an offensive movement,
with varying success, The Bolsheviki
retrieved part of the loss.
An American, notorious as a SNUG
gler has been arrested by the Next
can authorities at Juarez, in connec-
ton with the alleged smuggling OF
ammunition to Villa. He has been
released.
A pitched battle resulting in numer-
GUS casualties was fought in the viii
lage of Listsellaw, near Enniskillen,
Ireland, when a patrol of Ulster volun-
teers esurprised fifty raiders who evil
IDENTIFY were about to burn the court
house.
Violent demonstrations occurred at
Vienna. Austria, over the high cost Of
living. Police interviewed and several
fights occurred, seven persons being
killed and twenty-three wounded.
Seven persons were killed and thirty
wounded when gendarmes at Gratz,
Austria. fired into crowds which were
demonstrating against profiteering in
food.
The German government rendered
its resignation to President Ebert,
recently who requested it to remain
in office professionally.
Unofficial returns from the recent
German election show that results are
shout equally divided between the pres
ent coalition government and the right
and left opposition.
Any attempt to enforce compulsory
labor by making strikes unlawful must
he resisted at all costs Samuel Com.
pers. president of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor declared in his adj
dress at the opening of the fedora
tons fortieth annual. convention in
Mont. eai, Canada.
One hundred ard thirty delegates.
representing fourteen countries, will
participate in the deliberations of the
first aier-the-war cotton congress, at
Zurich, from June Q to June II.
The ceremony of Qualification of %
negroes, who died martyrs for the faith
in Uganda, under King Mwanga, was
celebrated with great pomp in the
basilica of st. Peters, Rome, Italy.
Fourteen persons were killed, one
hundred others injured and many
buildings destroyed by the explosion
of eighty carloads of explosives in a
suburban station Of Turin, according
to a Rome, Italy, dispatch.