The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-17
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LONDON, June 17.-sky battles
on scale the world has never dream.
ed Of will lend new thrill to the
European war spectacle before many
weeks.
Within the past six months, aero
plane factories here and ia the United
States have been turning out scores
Of blplanes designed to give Eng
land supremacy In the skies. Publ
cation Of this fact was not permitted
until the formal announcement from
the war office in the house OF COM
mons yesterday. Il was learned toda'
that the British air fleet now CO.
prises $500 bipIsnes and monopis
and about fifty dirigibles, equiph
for bomb hurting raids
To challenge Great Brltain's super
iority In the skies German aeroplane
and dirigibIs factories have been
working overtime since last septem-
Der. zeppeIins have been turned cut
~ rapidly as they could be manufae-
but according to reports here, Cor
many has placed less reliance on
the aeroplane and now has less than
GSSOS wi 0USS Hf0Uy VI SSSsu 0SS
along the Russian front. Great Bril-
fensive and part offensive action.
With admission from, the admiral
ty yesterday that forty persons were
Killed by Zeps In raids on the north
east coast June and June IS, it 10
the belief here that the aeroplane
defense Of Londcn and other. large
cities 10 90 nearly perfect that the
Zeps will never be able TO reach cen
traI districts.
While part of the nations air foces
will continue to patrol the coast to
meet diriglbles, 1t 10 unde rstood here
several fiotlIlas are to Join the
French who have been making sue
cessfuI raids on German ammunition
factories and chemical works.
Dispatches received here today said
that several ammunition factories at
Karlsruhe were destroyed in the
recent French raid and that more
than 200 persons were killed, incIud-
ing a number Of guards at the am
munition works.
The Russian Sikorsky bipiane after
which some Of the new English ma
chincs are reported to be modelled,
has done heavy damage along the
German front In Poland. Because Of
its size and Its capacity for carrying
explosives the SIavs have named Il
the "FIya m urometz," after a IA
buIous Russian giant.
STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, June 1.-THE steamer
Trafford, British, was sunk by Ger
man submarine thirty miles off the
Small islands yesterday, her crew
being landed at Mllfordhaven this
morning.
In nearly the same spot tho Lon
don steamer Turnweli, from Liver
pool to New York was stopped by a
submarine and the crew ordered to
take to the boats. Submarines then
boarded the Turneweif and set sev-
eraI bombs. Tho subma marines thon
disappeared, but the explosion failed
to sink the Tunr~eII and the crew re-
embarked into MiIfordhaven this
morning for repairs.
The Trafford was 2s5 ton vessel
owned by Manchester shipping firm
and registered from that port. She
was 129 feet in length.
The TurnweII 10 4.2e4 ton trans
Atlantic steamer, owned by the Gun
we'll Steamship company Of London
and registered from the port Of Lon.
don. She 10 $50 feet in length and
4s feet at her beam.
THE AGAMEMNoN.
BERLIN, June II. Via wireless to
london.)-A Turkish aviator, accord.
ing to a ConstantinopIe dispatch today,
reported sighting a warship Of the
type Of the British Agamemnon,
aground off the entrance to the Dar-
anelIes, her tunnels smashed and her
deck nearly entirely under water.
THE British press bureau on Mon.
day denied a report brought to the
United States by passenger aboari
the Orduna that the battleship Aga
memnon had been sunk at the OAR
danelles.l
PASSENGERS TESTIFY.
LONDON, June 17.-charges that
ineompetency Of the Lusitania,s crew
was partly responsible for the heavy
loss Of life when the liner was tor