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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Premier squilli in an announcement to the house of commons placed the total of British losses from the beginning of the war to May 31 at riS009 of which 50342 were killed Io39b0 oumled and 53747 missing Tlie losses in the naval division are not Included Mr Asquiths statement of losses was for the continental and Mediteranean forces of the empire He promised to give the losses in the naval division later Neither did the list of today included the forces of Great Britain engaged in the various smaller wars in Africa and the near east eastFormal Formal announcement that the battleships of the Atlantic fleet would not pass through the Panama Canal nor cruise up the Pacific coast this summer but would remain in northern waters was made by Secretary of the Navy Daniels Tuesday TuesdayA A London Daily Mail special says the recent bombardment of Verdun was by a new Krtipp gun larger than seventeen inches and with a range of twentylive miles It is said four of these gnus have been completed and four more are building
