... IN BATTLE OF THE SOMME : 15,500 PRISONERS. BIGGEST BATTLE OF WESTERN WAR. STEADY PROGRESS OF ALLIES’ PLANS. HOW THE PRUSSIANS SURRENDERED- F.A, Special Correspondent.) Press Camp, France. July 4. Already lias the struggle that is raging north and south ...

... STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. The Battle of the Somme is not yet over. The Allies continue to make some progress, though the difficulties are now greater, as the Germans have brought fresh forces to resist the advance. Nearly all the positions captured ...

... Association correspondent some interesting sidelights on the German point of view as gathered from prisoners taken in the Battle of the Somme. He said tho Germans, more particularly the officers, were not overtly disheartened at the success of the first advance ...

... the village of cleared the com- between Estrees and Oow occupy the Ger- Positions a front of fc/ 1 in ta the British battle of the Somme > th British captures the French 9,500. VERDUN. around Verdun, the left to the right were concentrated north-west of ...

... the pressure upon Verdun. The Battle of the Somme, as the great fight of Saturday and Sunday will be known to history, was no isolated event. It was part of the plan of the Allied War Council, and, just as the naval battle off Jutland had its immediate ...

... Lighting Order. > All the. men who have returned wounded from the great charge, which will pass into history as the Battle of the Somme, speak of lery. Ihe German trenches were blown to dust-heaps, with the bodies of the rntti who held them,’’, says one ...