The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-12
GERMANY

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
AMSTERDAM, July 12.-Several
great turf fires have broken out In
Germany, southwest of Hanover and
war prisoners and German troops
have been sent to fight the flames, ac-
cordlng to Osnabruck dispatches to-
day. X,
: APPEAL BY WOMEN.
AM 4 RDAM, July 12.-American
won 3 Germany have issued an ap-
pea s the women OF America to urgo
thu q .usbands to insist on the pro-
NJ = IN Of exports of arms and am
r & ton to the allies. according to
Y 3 in dispatch today.
r.. OFFICIAL REPORT.
BERLIN, (via wireless to London),
July 12.-Capture Of the Souehez cem-
etery and the destruction Of impor-
tant English works In the lorette
hills by terrific bombardment, was
| reported In this afternoons war office
statement.
The war office also claimed the cap
ture Of more than two miles Of Rus
Sian trenches along the suwaIki-kal.
varia front.
The souchez cemetery was captured
after a bloody struggle lasting several
| hours. In the final victorious charge
! a body of French troops was cut off
| in a portion Of trench and forced
to surrender, the Germans making
1855 prisoners.
Along the Meuse heights and In the
Champagne region, the French have
made several unsuccessful attacks, at
! first penetrating the German trenches.
/ but eventually being thrown out with
heavy losses.
cat AmerzweiIer, northwest Of Ait
kirch, we surprised the enemy and
captured 500 yards Of trenches" said
j the official statement.
| cater making these works Of no
we retired to our former positions"
Like Sealed Vault
I[By Carl w. Alderman, United Press
Staff Correspondent
( BERLIN, Nav 20-tBy mail to New
| York. 1.-THE German general staff
! hea eadauarters in Berlin is like a her
metically sealed vault The general
/
! the war department as in the United
States is a separate governmental de-
partment housed in massive brick
buildings. To the headquarters there
are but two entrances. each guarded
7 by a soldier and policeman No one
( Is permitted inside except on business
and everyone entering is escorted by
an orderly to the office he wishes to
60 While the visitor is inside the
| orderly awaits at the door and upon
I leaving, escorts him out of the build
! ing.
Contrary to the American custom
all officers and soldiers working in the
department wear their uniforms-and
soldiers salute every time an officer
appears in the hall Secrecy IS about
the only thing permitted for through
out the building on doors and win
dows are SIGNS reading: Entrance
Absolutely Forbidden"
Use French Bath Tubs.
NORTHERN FRANCE. May 5.-(By
mail to New York. Making sausage
and picking meat in bathtubs is the
way the German military authorities
overcame the difficulties of preparing
meat for the army. When trtv estab-
lished their chief food depot in this
city thew found the French had every
facility for baking bread and slaugh-
terne cattle but sausage making was
entirely unknown.
The result was that fancy and high
ly decorated French bathtubs were
purchased. German sausage machinery
was imported and new sausage in
dustrv started in France. In one room
Of the food headquarters here saw
nine bathtubs full of meat which was
being salted. In another room Ger
man soldiers were grinding sausage
in bathtubs. And bathtubs full OF
meat were everywhere. But everything
was painfully clean and every sausage
maker was dressed in white from
head to foot.
Repair Department.
GERMAN REPAIR HEADQUAR-
TFRE. NORTHERN FRANCE. May 9.
-(By mail to New York )-(Passed
by German military censor. May 15.)
Scores Of cannons. machine guns