Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-04 | Page 10 | Rain Halts the Severe Fighting

RAIN HALTS THE SEVERE FIGHTING London. Jan. 3. 10.40 p. m. The ex tremely rainy weather, the Worst Europe Eu-rope has experienced in years, causing caus-ing floods in the river valleys cl the continent as well as hose of TSnsland, has prevented any operations or. a large scale on the western battle front, and has seriously interfered wiili those in the east. There have been heavy arti!ler en gagement6 from the sea to the Swiss borders, and occasional attacks by the infantry of the opposing ainies. which, when not repulsed, have add ed a few yards to the territory in the 1-OoSeSBion of i - ?Uarking for:-, but have always proved costly adven tu:? The Freneli h&vo gained a little ground between Albert and Roye, just north of the point where the line turns eastward, and to the east of Rheims and southwest of Verdun, where the attempts to make the. German Ger-man positions at St. Mihiel, or. tho Meuse, untenable, are proceeding slowly. They have also made some advance in Alsace, but have suffered a repulse to the northwest of St Monehould. oo Read the Classified Ads.