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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
6
A compact digest highlights major developments across nations. Key leaders, economies, and conflicts frame a global picture with emphasis on diplomacy, security, and economic shifts influencing markets and policy choices worldwide.
Reports from Washington and New York detail shortages in unskilled labor for war work and praise for army and navy efforts. Allied offensives reduce western front, with gains near Soissons and Noyon, and German setbacks. Civil unrest in Petrograd and Japan’s food protests widen the war’s global impact.
A compact survey of notable happenings across North Carolina reported for Herald readers. Highlights include political developments at the state capitol, governance actions, and key community milestones shaping the state's public life.
YMCA seeks increased leadership and recruits for home camps to support war effort. Secretary Mangum cites need for more Y secretary volunteers from North Carolina, with emphasis on training, overseas prospects, and rapid expansion of the program across state camps.
The article notes North Carolina's September sugar allotment for all parts, with canning and preserving shares distributed by county offices. It highlights growing interest in substitutes like sorghum and honey, bee industry expansion, and new enterprises such as Raeford’s Milline and Storage Co. It also covers war risk insurance allotments, changes to the system, and local civic notes including a Confederate veteran, farm warnings, and highway labor concerns.
Raleigh residents pledge to oversubscribe the city quota of five thousand dollars for the Jewish War Relief Fund. Meantime Greensboro and other towns report strong per capita gifts, with notable contributions from Durham and Goldsboro and a large single gift of five hundred dollars by George W. Watts of Durham.
A surprise operation breaches enemy lines reaching two miles beyond the front, showcasing a bold tactic and signaling a shift in battlefield tempo. Commanders reported the assault achieved limited yet significant penetration with heavy supporting fire and rapid exploitation by reconnaissance units.
Field Marshal Haig moves Allied forces to secure gains as German reinforcements fail to slow advances. Towns fall under advancing units, signaling renewed pressure on the northern front.
British and French forces launched a major offensive from Arras toward Scarpe and south to Favreuil and Bapaume. They report advances to Mory, St Leger, Roye, and near Thilloy while pressuring the Somme front. More than 600 prisoners taken. German lines shrink as Haig’s army captures towns northward and north of Soissons. Evacuation of Bapaume appears likely as Allies press a widening envelope.
The British Independent Air force on the west front lost seven aircraft in a bombing raid on Mannheim. German forces outnumbered the Britons, who aimed to bomb Mannheim despite fighting and bombing duties. An air officer praised the raid as a splendid victory despite losses.
On the Veale Front north of the Vesle river American artillery destroyed several German ammunition dumps using aerial observation. The blasts occurred near Revillon as American long range batteries targeted the sites. Observers reported large clouds of smoke from the dumps early in the day.
The Petit Journal reports that the British have captured 40000 prisoners in five days, with 20000 taken since August 21. The rapid captures illustrate a major early battlefield success for British forces.
British forces under Field Marshal Haig seized suburbs of Bapaume and Aveones Les Bapaume. Reports say London Suzanne and Cappy towns north and south of the Som were captured while French troops reached western outskirts of Thilloy, south of Bapaume.
Allied air forces dropped 40 bombs on Conflans railway yards as German fighters appeared but did not engage. The raid targeted the yard’s east end amid heavy anti-aircraft fire and ensuing explosions, with both sides exchanging brief sightings during withdrawal.
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, outlined the administration stance before the Association of Commerce. He suggested a future where conscription applies to where work is done, not to the workers, potentially removing conscript labor from mines forests and factories until the places of work are conscripted.
The war office reports French forces pushed east of Tagneux between the Arlette and Aisne, repelling counterattacks near Crecyau Mont. Four hundred enemy prisoners were taken as artillery activity continued near Lansigny and Lanine. Night bombing resumed after improved weather, with about 18,000 kilos of explosives dropped behind the front.
American bombing planes dropped 38 bombs on Conflans, a town on the Verdun Mets railroad, with ten direct hits. In the Woevre region three aerial combats were reported as Allied forces engage enemy aircraft. Lieutenant Jones attacked and reportedly destroyed an Alb biplane over Marre, while Lieutenant Hugh Bridgman, on a reconnaissance patrol, engaged two Fokkers that vanished.
London reports reconnoitering British patrols entering Bapaume with outposts at the fringe of Bullecourt seven miles northeast of Bapaume. The bulletin notes capture of High Wood near Albert as troops advance.
Pare-Premier Clemenceau telegraphs the presidents of the general councils that they could rely on the government and Marshal Foch and his staff to turn the present advances into a decisive collapse of the enemy. He states the splendid victories of recent weeks have settled the fortune of war.
With the American Army in France fifty five officers noncommissioned officers and men of a division were awarded the legion of honor the military medal the war cross of distinguished service cross at a brilliant ceremony. Similar decorations were awarded seventy two others unable to attend.
Washington reports that officers and enlisted men of the U S Scorpion, interned at Constantinople since April 11, 1917, are receiving excellent treatment and are all in good health. The Navy Department released the first detailed word via the Swedish ambassador in Constantinople after the gunboat’s internment for failing to leave Turkish waters.
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