The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-01

Ou tuc TSuldluUcT VI tuS I1ltiSA
front parties continue to harass the
Germans. tnflicttng losses and taking
prisoners. The war office at gao
this afternoon Issued statement of
warning that in the interest of public
safety there should be no travelling
in the continent except for the most
serious reasons. All persons intend
ing to leave the continent were
warned that they would undergo the
strictest examination under the pass
port regulations and close search of
their persons and their baggage.
The combined British end French
drive began few hours after The Ger
mans launched the most powerful on
slaughts against Verdun in many
weeks. The crown prince hurled his
legtons against the French works east
and west Of the Mouse. The French
war office announced that on every
sector the Germans were rep1lsed with
| appalling losses, except on the north
eastern front, where the French were
driven out of Thiaumont work.
A semi-off1cial statement issued at
that the British have captured the
village of Serre, fourteen miles south
west of Arrss and the village Of Mont
aEban, six miles east Of Albert.
French troops have captured the
village of Curlu, seven miles south
! east of Albert and the Havier wood,
| advancing for distance of a mile
| and one fifth. Fighting Is going on
| at the village of Mammoth, six miles
east of Albert and at the village of
Continuation, four miles east, north
west of Albert. The French hold the
eastern part OF the village of Cont
maison.
! The semi-official statement reveal
| ing for the first time the exact scene
of operations, shows that the Anglo
French advance reached its greatest
depth along a thirteen mile front ex-
tending from a point north OF Albert
| to a point southeast Of that village.
| The Anglo-French forces are driving
eastward in the general direction of
! Cambria The semi-official announce
ment indicates that the advances al
ready extend beyond the capture OF
German forward trenches announced
in an earlier statement from the war
Office.
Forward Defenses Broken.
| LONDON, July british troops
have broken the German forward de-
lenses on sixteen mile front, the
war office announced today in the
| first brief statement on the begin
ming Of the great offensive.
The French troops attacking at the
same time, pentrated deep into Ger
man trenches.
North Of the Somme, in an attack
in conjunction with the French forces,
the British have broken the German
! forward defenses on a sixteen mile
! front" said the official statement.
THE French attack on the immediate
right was equally satisfactory
Germany Denies II all.
BERLIN, July Repeated Brit
| ish and French attacks at many
points on the German front were
| Everywhere repulsed," said an of.
fetal statement from the war Office
this afternoon.
! Used Largest Type.
| LONDON, July lin their largest,
blacklist type, the London evening
| papers announced that the great al
| lied offensive has begun.
! 1.-THE latest information received
here stated that about $4,000 German
troops were massed along the British
| front from the Somme northward to
Arras, with 10000 Germans in reserve.
| Moving southwark from Arras, the
Germans face the British in the fol-
lowing order:
| First Bavarian reserve division;
| Thirty-eighth IAndstrum brigade:
111th division; Sind division; 14th
reserve corps and sixth active corps,
which rests partly north and partly
south of the Somme.
Behind the German front are the
following reserve units:
Twenty-second reserve corps. con-