... ON THE SOMME The battle of the Somme proceeds with deliberation. The Germane thought th Allies wo l M hare tired of it before j but it jfoes from day to day, and very day sec® a bit won here and another bit twined there, and by the end of the week theee ...

... STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE In the great battle of the Somme our men have been fighting their way uphill most of the time, until Saturday they got to the crest of the ridge north of Pozieres. This ridge is most important, because the effects of ...

... was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres, 11th May, 1915. aged years and that the rigfit panel: ?Also of Harold William Cottrell. Se'.-Lieut.. S, Lancashire Kegt., who was killed in action the Battle of the Somme, September, 1916, aged 18 years: ...

... about the beginning the year. 335 lives being lost. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. events o! importance were report® I on the Somme Front yesterday 'ternoon. The Germans admit the loss south ot the Somme of the villages of Ablaincourt and Pressoirc, raptured ...

... CANADIAN PORTS & PHILADELPHIA, ROOMS, LEEDS SPECIAL ATTKACTION TIIKEE DAYS ONLY. NEXT MONDAY. I’CEt'DAY, UEDNESDAY BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Olficiar ot tilt Cnri*li War ru France. Taken by of tbe War Office By the British Toiiical Committee for War Filint ...

... NATURE'S MAGIC So here, even now, many of the first-line trenches which stormed on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, are already crumbling in, parapet and parados conspiring together to fill up and obliterate the ugly gash of the trench itself ...

... forcing a Way. For seven weeks the British troops engaged in, the great battle of the Somme have fought their arduous way up the rising ground which was the first objective of their attack. It seems a long time for so small a geographical gain, but the ...

... way and made a part of our front preparations can be made for another attack to win some more, and this is how in the battle of the Somme our men have been going forward bit by bit for the last seven weeks. Alongside our Army the French have been going forward ...

... It is also no violation of the censorship to announce that the American Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that the American forces may possibly the means of tipping the scale. Every officer ...

... received. His parents, who reside at 264, Harehills-lane, Leeds, have two other sons serving, and fourth eon fell in the battle of the Somme July Ist last year. KEIGHLEY SOLDIER ENTERTAINERS RAISE - FUNDS FOR THEIR HOSPITAL ' ...

... twenty-nine years of age, and the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Broadbent Maufe, Warlbeck, Ilkley. fell in the Battle of the Somme, July sth, 1916, and was buried at Heilly-sur-Ancre. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Kellett, Middleton Lodge, Ilkley, are placing ...

... THE SOMME FILM. THE KING S.VYS THE PUBLIC SHOULD SUE THESE PICTURES. The Secretary of the War Offico issues the following;— The programme ol* the official Office film, the Battle the Soiriuc, presente ...