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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1918
Page
6
A concise look at major developments across nations over the past week. Leaders, policy shifts, conflicts, and economic moves shape the international landscape as governments respond to crises, climate, trade, and health challenges.
Long dispatch lists court rulings on prohibition and crime, naval ship completions, labor board actions, and wartime diplomacy. It notes Wilson urging a Democratic Congress, shifts in German and Allied positions on armistice terms, and battlefield movements across Europe and the Near East with dozens of named places and officials.
A compact record of principal happenings across Raleigh and the state capital, detailing notable legislative actions, public notices, and civic developments reported for Herald readers. Highlights cover government sessions, policy decisions, and key regional events affecting North Carolina communities.
Dispatches from Raleigh report civilian applicants for infantry training at Camp Fremont California starting December. Eligible ages 18 to 48 with certain class exemptions. training sites include North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering West Raleigh University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Dingtaay Military School Raleigh University. Campaign to reduce or eliminate waste stock on railways through North Carolina with emphasis on agriculture and industry. Clean Up Week links to Arc prevention day November 2 and extended moves by Winston Selman and local leaders to rally civic support. Fourth Liberty Loan success across Wake County despite influenza, with totals near 1.39 million and strong woman and Boy Scout contributions. state officials push whiskey policy clarification amid medical and supply concerns.
The State Board of Health urges tobacco warehousemen to certify closing by Monday November 4. Senators Simmons and Overman push for public release of the Western North Carolina abrasive supply investigation. The Interior Department sent agents to assess natural abrasives for war use. the War Industries Board labels the report confidential though read by some Congress members.
The state board of health says influenza conditions are severe, with 1 percent of doctors and 2 percent of nurses urgently needed. The epidemic spreads steadily toward the interior, permeating Piedmont Carolina and especially affecting western counties with many badly infected districts.
The War Department contemplates letting a concrete roads contract at Camp Greene with expenditures over $100,000, signaling expansion of facilities. The article lists numerous privates and sergeants from multiple towns, including Winston, Selma, Goldsboro, Fayetteville, and Lumberton, among others, reflecting a broad draft-era muster and unit distribution.
The Provost General informs the Adjutant General of North Carolina that draftee registrants deferred non occupation grounds may opt to return to civil life or join the army as ordinary registrants if they fail to gain a commission after attending officers training schools.
Washington county reports influenza plagues rural areas with thirty deaths in four days. Red Cross aids the needy by delivering soups and nourishments to farm families where many members are ill. A hospital room in Washington offered soup and food on Sunday, as doctors and nurses struggle to reach all affected households.
A German government note declares that the latest position mirrors a demand for armistice terms and that authority now rests with the people, signaling a potential shift in wartime policy and public influence.
British forces report a large victory with seven thousand prisoners taken as operations advance unchecked. News notes rapid gains across front lines and growing Allied momentum in the conflict.
Translation of a German government communication dated October 27 1918 as transmitted by the Swiss chargé d affaires reports the German government acknowledging the United States president’s statements. It says the peace negotiations are led by the people’s government with actual and constitutional authority, and that military powers are under that authority. The German government awaits proposals for an armistice as a step toward peace, signed Solf.
Cable dispatches report Austro Hungarian government asking President Wilson to begin overtures for immediate negotiations and armistice without awaiting Germany. Vienna claims alignment with Wilson on ending hostilities across Austro Hungarian fronts and calls for talks with all belligerents.
Captain Rickenbacher of the American flying forces reports another aerial win northwest of Verdun with Captain Ednant Rick enbacher confirming the second victory in Sunday's heavy fighting. His total now stands at twenty two planes brought down.
Field Marshal Haig reports British troops broke stiff opposition south of Valenciennes and pushed their line forward while other sectors remained quiet.
Paris announces continued advances near Guise with French forces pushing east of the Peron river beyond Parang wood. French aviators have been exceedingly active, with air operations intensifying on the battlefield.
London reports British troops have captured the important town of Kerkuk in Turkish Kurdestan, located 155 miles north of Baghdad, per the war office on Mesopotamian operations.
Intense activity is reported along the American front with heavy shelling by German forces into back areas. The American long range guns reply by firing on vital German rear lines, prompting retaliatory shelling of Verdun and nearby places by a large caliber German gun.
London reports a statement attributed to German court circles that Emperor William has no intention of abdication but could frame his rights. He would not abandon his people and contemplates becoming hereditary president of a German republic similar to England Belgium and Italy's monarchs.
Rome reports more than $000 Austrian soldiers taken prisoner in operations on the Italian front. Hatlan and British troops crossed the Piave river despite Austrian resistance. In Albania, falcone reach Alessio area, about 30 miles southeast of Scutari.
Theodore Roosevelt again criticizes President Wilsons 14 points in telegrams to Senators Lodge Poindexter and Johnson. He urges the Senate to reject a negotiated peace with Germany and to pursue unconditional German surrender, comparing the 14 points to disloyalty and pro German sentiment.
In the Meuse and Argonne sector north of Grand Pre American aviators drop bombs behind enemy lines amid heavy German machine gun and artillery fire while German airmen retaliate by bombing towns inside the American front lines.
Amsterdam advices report Count Karolyi urging a resolution in Budapest for Hungary's independence, a resignation of the Wekerle cabinet, and the formation of a coalition ministry. The motion also seeks a separate peace, dissolution of the alliance with Germany, and the proclamation of a Hungarian king to reside in Budapest.
Washington dispatch reports the famous Bruges belfry was used by German forces as a garage and workshop during occupation. Allied troops found interior walls broken and chimneys added to house workers. The main damage to Bruges centered near the station area and Porte Marechale.
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