Show BOMBS RAINED ON HUNS MIRED IN FLANDERS MUD Nature as Ally of Germans Fails to Stem Onrush of Britons By William Philip Simms United Press Staff Correspondent ITH TilE THE HE BRITISH ARMY W WITH V V IN FLANDERS Oct 13 Nature was doing her worst tonight tonight tonight to to- night to halt the British drive drive drive- and failing An unheard rd of ot rain raIn raIn-a a drenching continuous cloudburst that literally washed away some of ot the ridges in the sector continued throughout last night and most of ot to to- to day British shells plunged into the liquid drab mess of ot mud and sounded new depths of ot ooze Scrambling slipping all nil but swimming along its surface surface- I I Tommies squirmed fighting onward They were soaked to the skin every square Inch of ot their bodies was painted with a dingy encrusted mass But they fought on Headquarters report tonight detailed actual instances where charging charging or or rather sliding soldiers sliding soldiers had found more than overhead in depth Exploding shells and grenades threw showers of or molten viscid muck allover all allover allover over the landscape If It It were not for forthe forthe forthe the difference in the type of ot the steel helmets there would have been difficulty diffiCulty culty In distinguishing friend from foe toe so thoroughly covered were the tho themen themen thomen men on both sides with the mud Early today British airmen scorn- scorn the Ing the te tempest est and th the p pouring clouds Joined the offensive of ot the land Tommies swinging dizzily down across the German lines to add their sheets of steel to the downpour of pelting rain They performed valuable work directing the British artillery through the murky air all The Australians fighting moved their lines still closer to Pass Pass- and hurled back a German counter attack That counter attack was the only one reported along the front of the whole British advance not only during dur ing last night but all of ot today The Germans were either fearful of the encroaching all-encroaching mud or else they were so thoroughly miserable from the British artillery roar that hat they decided counter blows were har hardly ly worthwhile By International News News Service I I LONDON Oct 13 This This thirteenth day of ot the month was the lucky one for or the Just as the British I after atter their new attack on the Flanders front yesterday had them on the run rundown rundown down the tip of ridge a tremendous downpour of rain set in making a further advance Impossible It lasted all da day all night and again throughout today Neither sIde Bide could think of ot undertaking infantry opera- opera Jons In the mud and mire the engineers engineers engineers en- en en en- are feverishly working the BrItish trying to consolidate their new lines the Germans hastily throwing up new defenses to meet the next on on- on rush At one point In the center of ot the latest attacking front the Australians waded forward from a distance pushIng pushing push- push ing ng the Germans back with bomb and bayonet into the outskirts of Pass Pass- which Is the pivot of ot the 0 steadily crumbling German positions i Dispatches from the front tell of i heavy Heavy neavy y losses lOsses josses hv by uy vy y th the ine Germans vester- vester yesier- yesier I I heavy Heavy neavy y losses lOsses josses hv by uy vy y th the ine Germans vester- vester yesier- yesier I I day The war department today said the he losses were limited to one and one- one I fifth kilometers and declares the at attackers attackers attackers at- at paid a heavy toll of ot blood North orth of the Aisne the tho Germans last night delivered a series of or vicious blows They clashed with granite ev ev- Not an inch of ot ground was gained Th The attacks cost the heavily Paris asserts |