Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-09 | Page 2 | Very Heavy Rain Delays Advance of the British

VERY HEAVY RAIN DELAYS ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH LONDON", July 8. The operations of the British army on the Somme front between the Ancre and Somme rivers has again been impeded by an unusually heavy rain, the war office announced today. During the last few davs tho British have captured twenty gOus and fifty-one fifty-one machine guns. The announcement follows: . A very heavy rain which fell on e afternoon and evening of yesterday yes-terday impeded operations and between be-tween the Ancre and the Somme the night was chiefly spent in improving improv-ing the forward positions gained in yesterday 's fighting. In the neighborhood of Gomme-court Gomme-court we bombarded the enemy's trenches with field guns and trench mortars. Near Neuville St. Vaast (in northern Franco southwest of Lfltas) and north of Koclincourt the enemy showed some activity yesterday. yes-terday. He exploded a mine northeast north-east of tho former place without pletly wrecking a liaugar aud dome do-me other material damage. In the last few days we captured cap-tured twenty ffuns, iiity-one machine ma-chine guns, a large number of auto-matic auto-matic "rifles, trench mortars, mine firers, canister throwers and searchlights search-lights and a mass of other war ma-erial ma-erial not yet scheduled.