STORMS AFFECT PROGRESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 7

STORMS AFFECT PROGRESS.

(The High Commissioner reports :—: — LONDON, 26th June, 5 p.m. North of Arras there were infantry actions, accompanied by a bombardment between the sugar refinery at Souchez and the National road at Bethune. French progress has been impeded by the state of the ground at certain points, owing to recent storms. Progress, in fact, is almost impracticable. In the Champagne region, and in the Argonne, mine fighting took place to tho French advantage. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) INCENDIARY AND ASPHYXIATING BOMBS AT ARRAS. (Received June 28, 8.45 a.m.) t . PARIS, 27th June. A hundred incendiary and asphyxiating bombs were dropped on Arrae. Fires were started, and a gendarme and a nun -were killed and many injured. SHELLS DROPPED ON DOUAI, (Received Juna 28, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 27th June. The Germans regained a footing oni a two-hundred-yards' front in the sunken road between Ablain and Angres. Our aviators, on the 25th, dropped shells on Douai railway station, which apparently was seriously damaged. AMMUNITION DEPOT BLOWN UP. LONDON, 27th June. A Berlin communique states : We blew up an ammunition depot at Arras. GERMANS UNABLE TO ARREST FRENCH ADVANCE. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) (Received June 28, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 27th June. A correspondent says that the French have progressed in North France almost Uninterruptedly,. _ The Germans ax-e using gas shells in increasing quantities, but they are powerless to aaTest the French. Plentiful supplies of ammunition enable the French to prevent counter-attacks whilst fortifying new positions.