The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-06

have been promised for the measures.
ALLIED COLUMNS
SWINGING FORWARD
CONTINUED from page L.
starting point, losing very, heavily"
Germany is Surprised.
IBy H. B. Robertson, United Press
Staff Correspondent,
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 6.-Ger-
mans formal protest against Brazirs
seizure of interned German vessels
in her ports was received today. The
imperial government expresses great
surprise that this action was taken
without a declaration of war.
Foreign Minister Pecanho expect
ed to answer the note tomorrow.
1t was authoritatively stated that
he will merely cite full precedents
for Brazils action and will refuse
to be drawn into controversy.
Victory for Austria.
VIENNA (via London) June g.
Capture of an important portion OF
Italian trenches south of Jamiano with
III officers and $500 men was an
nounced in today's official statement.
The ground regained was recently
won by the Italians in their often
sive.
Air Squadron Crippled.
LONDON, June 6.-British sea-
planes took heavy toll of the German
aeroplane squadron which yesterday
raided English coast counties, ac-
cording to an admiralty statement
today.
yesterday afternoon eighteen en-
envy craft were sighted off Ostend,'
the statement said, proceeding in
northwest direction. The enemy
planes were chased to England and
on their return journey two enemy
planes were downed by one pilot.
Later two or three were completely
destroyed and four others driven
down out of control, two being con-
sidered as destroyed"
II1ord French, commander IN cnlel
of home defense, reported yesterday
that two German planes had been
downed before the enemy departed
seaward"
Presumably the admiralty's count
is in addition to these.]
Vast Damage Done.
LONDON, June 6.-Vast damage
was inflicted on the German naval
depot at Ostend by yesterdays bonn
lbardment Of the British cruiser and
destroyer fleet, according to admiral
ty announcement today.
"a photo-reconnoissanc of Ostend,
it declared, Shows as the result OF
Yesterdays bombardment that a ma
jority of the work shops in the dock
yard were seriously damaged or total
Ily destroyed; the entrance gates to
the dock yards, the basin. the subma-
rine shelter and a destroyer under re
pair badly damaged and several yes
sells sunk"
| 10000 Pounds of Bombs.
BERLIN, (via London) June g.
t"Our aeroplane squad dropped five
| thousand kilogrammes (about ten
thousand pounds) of bombs on Sheer
ness" an official statement said to-
day. Good hits were observed"
Thousands Of Fighters Left.
TBy Henry Wood, United Press Staff
Correspondent
! WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, June Germany has
only twenty-one divisions Of troops
on the western front-approximat
1915, 900 men-which she has not YET
flung into the fighting line.
| The 107 divisions G,605,00O men
with which the British and French
offensives have been engaged in re
cent weeks have suffered losse:
averaging between two and three
thousand per division-or from 214,
900 to $1,000 men.
These figures are those of French
headquarters. They give not only {
clear idea of the tremendous efforts
which Germany is making to stop the
French and British advance, but also
the terrible toll which the allie:
have taken in the fighting.
/ The French estimates are that Ger
many has a total of 1856 divisions O
all kinds Of troops now on the west
ern front (This would be about 2,340,
600 men, OF these 156, only 1928 are
tdivisions OF real fighting men, the
others being auxiliary corps. One
hundred and seven of these l2S fight
ing corps have been identified as op
posed to the Aisne and Champagne
front early in May. The Germans
have given indications of no other
plan of campaign than to resist ant
to counterattack desperately, while
,feverishly constructing at the rear 6
successive series Of retreat lines
similar to the boosted "Hindenbure
line"
Wholesale Arrests.
lTUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
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