Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 2 | French Capture Machine Guns and 78 Cannon

FRENCH CAPTURE MACHINE GUNS AND 78 CANNON PARIS, July 6, 2:10 a. m. Last night was generally quiet north and south of the river Somme, says today's official stat em en t of the war office. There were a few local engagements north of the Somme during the night In which the Germans captured two small woods a kilometer north of Hem. The French also captured a wood. South of the Somme the night passed (n quiet. A German counter-attack on Bellov Bel-lov was repulsed easily. "The French have captured seventy-six cannon and several hundred machine guns. There was no infantry fighting on the Verdun front. The war office says the Germans are attempting to bombard the cathedral at Verdun. The text of the statement says: North of the Somme there were last night a number of local engagements. A counter-attack by the Germans took from us two little woods north of Hem. Our troops captured another an-other wood on the northeastern boundary of the same village. South of the Somme the night passed quietly along the major part of the front. A counter-attack directed di-rected by the Germans upon Belloy was easily repulsed. French Capture Cannon. The number of cannon captured by the French troops which it lias been possible to enumerate reaches seventy-six. We also have taken machine ma-chine guns to the number of several hundred. There have been no infantry engagements en-gagements on either bank of the Meuse. The Germans have been bombarding our second lines in the region of Ghaltancourt. The Germans have delivered a ferocious attack upon the cathedral of Verdun. Last night thev endeavored en-deavored systematically to reach this building with large-caliber shells. One of our long-range pieces of artillery ar-tillery dispersed a convoy of the en-emv en-emv in the vlclnitv of Heudlcourt, northeast of St. Mihiel. In Alsace, in the vicinity of Bum-haupt, Bum-haupt, one of our detachments penetrated pene-trated a German trench which was found to be full of dead.