Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-05-07
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS or THO
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
The NEWS CT THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place In The SovtA.
land VIII Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign

The Japanese war office announces
the imminent signature of Russo
Japanese agreement which will con
cede virtually all the japanese de
mands.
ROAD Amundsen, the Norwegian
Arctic explorer, has not abandoned his
expedition, but, after his impending Wis
1t to Nome, Alaska, he intends to enter
the ice peak around Wrangell island
off the northern coast of eastern 81
breia, and thence drift across the Pc
lar sea, says dispatch to the Lon.
don Times from Christiana.
British troops, 1t is believed, plan to
support the sultans forces in the
movement against Turkish nationalist
in Asia Minor and even join in an
aggressive offensive against Mustapha
Renal. Lieut.. Gen. Sir Milne, COM
mander of British forces at Constants
nople, has gone to Ismid on an inspec-
ton tour and elaborate preparations
are being made by the British along
the coast of the Sea Of Marmora.
At the meeting of the bishops Of the
Church of England at Lambath in July
the question of giving up sermons
In the offices of that church will be
discussed Some of the bishops opine
that this is not the day of sermons,
but of generous use of shoe leather.
A London gallery mob broke up the
first production of ]. Hartley Manners
play, "A Night in Rome at the Gar.
rick theater. The curtain was lowered
soon after the start Of the second act
The American ambassador to England
was in the audience.
The Moscow lzvestiya, copy Of
which has been received in Berlin,
prints the last installment Of the re-
port of the extraordinary commission
appointed for combating the counter
revolution during 1918 and 1919. In
this period the commission arrested
l2S,00O persons. The persons shot
aggregated 9,641.
Rebel troops are preparing to march
on the City of Mexico from the state
OF Guerrero, Gen. Charles p. Elias
Gales, commander.in-chief of the lib
eral constitutionalists" army. an
nounces at Aqua Prieta.
Reports from Mexico state that more
than fifty thousand soldiers in Mexico
are now in revolt against the Carranza
government. and nearly half this num-
Der are reported to have Joined the
revolutionary forces in Sonora.
Fighting is reported to be taking
place between Arabs and British troops
in Palestine. Two thousand Bedouins
attacked Semakh, south of Lake Ii.
berias, from which hte small British
force withdrew after fight in which
they suffered few casualties. The
incident was not important, according
to official view, being merely local
development of recent Bedouin cattle
forays.
Doctor Goeppert, head of the Ger.
man delegation in Paris, handed the
foreign office of France a note ad-
dressed TO Premier Milerand stating
that the additional troops which had
entered the Ruhr district had all evac.
uated that district on April q.
Paris, France, faces an almost com
plete paralysis of business industry,
May /, for twenty.four hours, as the
result of large number of unions vot
ing to join the labor demonstration |
by calling general strike.
The strike in Turin (ltaly) is end.
ed in all branches of work. and the
men have returned to their former
occupations.
Shouting "Tipperary," the saUt song
they sany over the country roads of
Flanders. where peoples grow" $50
of England's blinded soldiers swung
into London, April 25th, completing
a 20O'mile march to protest to An.
drew Bomar Law, as government rep
resentative, against official neglect.