... OUR GAINS HELD. Huns' Fears for Peronne. Paris, Wednesday. A semi-official statement issued las! night says : The battle of the Somme, although ' hindered by violent storm to-day, proceeding with brilliant success for our arms. The advance of the French ...

... Hand-to-hand fighting and bombing continues betweca the Ancre and the Somme. five hundred more prisoners have been taken by us since the number last reported BIGGEST WESTERN BATTLE. GERMAN DMASSER RUSHING UP FROM OTHER FRONTS (Press Association War Special ...

... he German policy is the extreme one of creating a false impression and maintaining it- The enemy’s reports of the battle of the Somme have from the first been studiously vague, and are growing more and more directly misleading. Whereas we have disguised ...

... Russians in In the battle of the Somme the British are opposed with the same desperation, bat, in the wotds of Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, have béen able to make ‘‘ further progress at certain im- portant points.” From the Ancre to the Semme the battle raged at close ...

... WITHOUT A SINGLE LOSS. WHY BRITISH PROGRESS IS SLOW. The semi-official statement issued in Paris last night say*: The battle of the Somme, although hindered by violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for our anas. The advance of the French ...

... Mr H. Warner Allen, special correspondent the British piiess with the French armies:— An officer who witnessed the battle of the Somme gives the following account of the first day's operations:— The result of the first day's fighting was that the' chosen ...

... point, 'rut once that point is reached events may travel with dramatic swiftness. One interesting feature . of the battle of the Somme has beeaf the return in some portions of the dreg—only a very temporary return it - is true —to .the conditions of field ...

... —the only ones who can spare time relate their experiences whiijt the, battle is still being waged. HIGH EXPLOSIVES AND SHRAPNEL. One interesting feature of the battle of the .Somme has been the return in some portions of the area, only a very temporary ...

... HINT AS TO TEMPORARY HALT FOR GUN WORK. A semi-official statement from Paris to-day (timed last night), says:— The battle of the Somme, although hinred violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for our arms. On the French front last night ...

... combat —the only ones who can spare time to relate their experi cnces —whilst the battle is still being waged. Field Warfare. One interesting feature the battle of the Somme has been the return in some portions of the area —only a very temporary return, ...

... HUIIIEI OEIMAN PUPAtATIOHI IS DEFERD KIOHNE. Paris, Wednesday. The setgboffieial statement issued last night says;— The battle of the Somme, although hindered a violent (.form to-day, is proceeding with brilliant, success for our arms. The advance the French ...

... SOMME BATTLE PROGRESS. RAIDS IN LOOS SALIENT. 12.40 P.M.—Near Thiepval we made NEW RUSSIAN THRUST. a further slight advance and , captured a number of prisoners. . To the south of the La Baas& Canal, after a discharge of gas an-1 smoke, eve AUSTRIAN CENTRE ...