Show RA S CAPTURE CAPTOR POSITION osimAR lEAK AR HEM EM L fight Passes Passes' Quietly Along Major Part of 1 the Somme Front Is the Latest From Paris ADVANCE t Jondon don Reports Gains South of La Bassee Canal anal and Raids on f. f the T First Line PARIS July 6 Last Last night nights as as s generally quiet north and ando o th of the river Somme says days day's d ys y's official statement of of the thear ar i- i office here here were a few local engage north of the Somme durin during 1 inIght i In which the Germans cap capo Ired ired F d two small woods a a. kilometer orth of Hem The French also cap cap- red d a wood South of the Somme the night ed in quiet A German counter f f feck k on Belloy was repulsed easily The French have captured seventy seventy- x cannon cannon and several and several hundred ma ma- line guns There was no infantry figl fighting fighting- on one oneT e eT Verdun front The war office l LS S 'S the Germans are attempting attempting- to tou u the cathedral cathedra at Verdun Counter Counter Attack The text of or the statement says North of the Somme there were st night a number of local engage engage- A counter counterattack attack by the Gerans Gerans Ger Ger- ans ns took from us two little woods rth of Hem Our troops captured l wood on the northeastern of the same village South of the Somme the night quietly along the major part Ithe the front A counter attack dieted di dP eted by the Germans upon Belloy Belloy- is 18 easily repulsed The number of cannon captured French troops which it has been to enumerate reaches sev sev- ty We Ve also have taken mame ina- ina ine me guns to the number of several indred There Th re have been no infantry en en- on either bank of the euse The Germans have been bom born our second lines in the reon re- re cm on of Chattancourt on Cathedral The he Germans have bave delivered a a afe fe fe- clous elous attack upon the cathedral of Last night they endeavored to reach this building ith ilk large caliber shells VOne One of our long range pieces of tillery dispersed a convoy of the lemy emy In the vicinity of Heudicourt of St. St Mihiel in In Alsace in the vicinity of Burn Burn- one of our detachments penciled pene pene- a German trench which was wasand und and to be full of dead it f LONDON July 6 Near Near Thiepval n n the tile Somme we made a further advance and captured a anum- anum num- num f r of of prisoners the war office an- an today fj I. tons Take Trench of La Bassee canal after e discharge of gas gaa and smoke we weide ide de some successful raids into the emy emy's eJDYs s first line In one of these eRoyal Welsh especially themselves capturing prisoners a trench mortar and m machine gun in another raid raiel the Highland Light Cantry fantry successfully ly entered the tho emy's trenches west of Hulluch A gun sun emplacement was de de- royed many Germans were killed I I d a some prisoners were taken There here was no change of see nce e on the rest of our front I |