BAD WEATHER HINDERING OPERATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14165, 16 August 1916, Page 5

BAD WEATHER HINDERING OPERATIONS.

RHEIMS AGAIN BOMBARDED

CIVILIAN HOSPITAL DESTROYED

FRENCH CAPTURES ON THE

SOMME.

v '(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received August 15, 7 p.n;.) Paris, August 15

A communique states that bad weather has hampered operations on most of the front. The artillery duel continues. German aeroplanes bombed Rheims = and batteries shelled different .quarters of the town. The civilian hospital was destroyed, six civilians being killed. Trustworthy advices state that the Trench took 2000 unbounded prisoners and seventy machine guns since the 6th northward of the Somme, princi-' pally in the advance culminating in the seizure of upwards of. half of Manrepas. We also took 600 prisoners a'b Vaux, Chapitre and Chenois Woods. ■ |