... PROGRESSING TOWARDS PERONNE. If VILLAGES NOW HELD. Tha ascii-oflbaal statement received from Paris to-day says.—The battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent storm proceeding with brilliant success for oar *rma- The advance of the French troops ...

... THE EVENING NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY «, tflS. Conditions of Panoe. The new battle of the Somme may come to rival that Verdun in duration and fury, and if it undoubtedly intensify the longing for peace now felt throughout the world by all those who are morally ...