The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-28
Embossed offensive Fire.

heroes.
Embossed offensive Fire.
i ROME, Nov. 2S.-Itallan artillery,
supported by Italian bombing planes
in force today loosed an offensive fire
on massed enemy columns moving pc
hind the German-Austrian lines, to-
days official statement declared.
The fire was hot on the Asiago
plateau. around Primoland Bacon,
| Coldeilaberretta and the middle Piave.
italian Crisis Passed.
LONDON, Nov. 2s.-"The italian
crisis is past" declared General T.
! B. Maurice. director OF operations, IN
| his weekly interview today, with the
United Press.
| THE credit is due to the Italians
alone"
SO SUBS IN IS DAYS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2a.-Thlrty-nine
submarines have been destroyed by
allied forces In a fifteen day period,
j n. 3. Hohler, second counsellor OF
| British embassy told a crowd at Hero
Land bazaar here. He said that
number Of U boats were sunk be-
tween November and Novern Der IS.
Peace Demonstrations In Berlin.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 28.-Peace
demonstrations have occurred in Ber-
/ lin and Budapest, according to re-
ports reaching here today.
/ Police in both cities, it was de-
clared, had clashed with the peace
advocates.
Life Boats Missing.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2S.-Sixty-
three men in three life boats are
still missing from the torpedoed
American steamer Actaeon, according
to navy department messages today.
One boat load of twenty was land
ed at Cape Finisterre.
Press dispatches previously re-
ported twenty-one survivors landed
in Spain, but did not state how many
were In the three missing boats.
The crew of the Actaeon, formerly
/ the German steamship Adamsturm,
seized at the opening OF the war,
was unoficially reported to consist
of fifty-eight men, including thirty
one Americans.
There was naval gun crew OF
thirteen men aboard and possibly
| others.
/ Artillery Action.
| LONDON. Nov. 2S.-Artillerying
was ali Field Marshal Haig reported
| from the Cambari front today.
| "In the neighborhood Of Bourbon
wood" he said, there was hostile
artillerying at night, but no infantry
actions.
EAST and north of Ypres there
was hostile artillerying."
Appalling Casualties.
| WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES,
Nov. $50 appalling have been the
casualties suffered by the enemy in
the fruitless attacks that it was
rumored today he had withdrawn
seven crippled divisions (nearly 1885,
900 men).
Prisoners declare that some bat
talions of several hundred men have
been reduced to thirty or forty by
the vigor of the Italian defense.
There was no change in the dead
lock along the entire front today.
Using Gas Shells.
[By VIM. Philip Simms, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Nov. 2S.-The Germans
uucorked countryside full of gas
in their attempts to shake the British
grip back of the Hindenburg line to-
day.
Shells containing the powerful
asphyxiating vapor were distributed
by German guns over wide area
Immediately back Of the British
positions. No damage was done and
the shells gave the enemy no advan-
tage.
AS this despatch is cabled, the
British line has apparently shifted to
west of Fontaine Notre Dame, but
positions in Bourbon wood are stand
ing secure despite the enemy's most
desperate efforts.
Germany Admits Losses.
BERLIN, (via London) Nov. 28.-
| Temporary loss" Of the zone from
| Bourbon to Fontaine Notre Dame was
announced in todays official state
ment describing the fighting around
| Cambria
| Between Bourbon and Fontaine
| (Notre Dame) the enemy penetrated
our defense" the statement said,
/ and the zone of Bourbon and Fon-
tame has been temporarily lost
"At Fontaine and Bourbon, English
groups, greatly thinned, were met by
our counter thrust, which threw back
the enemy, we retaking the villages.
West Of Bourbon waves OF tanks,
preceding an attack, collapsed under
our fire.
: Nothing New in Italy
BERLIN, (via London} Nov. 2S.-
, Nothing new was reported from
b the Italian front in today's official
, staten ent