... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME WTiat of the Western Front? There what may be described as the Battle of the Somme —most of the big battles on this side are named after riverscontinues, and bit by bit the Allies are wresting further ground from the ...

... 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 ...

... material whieh has not yet been dug out the wrecked German trenches. to July 15th the British Army had captured in the Battle of the Somme officers and 10,779 men, 51 guns, 30 trench howitzers, and 66 machine-guns. The total number of officers and men taken ...

... 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 ...

... Herbert Featherstone, younger son the Rev. R. J. Featherstone, Vicar of St. Luke’s, Tbornaby-on-Tees, had been killed the battle of the Somme. He was twenty-six years age. News was received in bkipton, on Saturday morning the death action Cpl. E. C. Briggw, ...

... FOR THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. (Press Association War Special.> (From Mr. H. Warner Allen, Special Correspondent of the British Press with the French Armies.) . Pans, Thursday. An authoritative account of the first phases of the battle the Somme from July ...

... 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 ...

... retire to shorter and more conveniently defensive ones. Both eteps are fraught with danger, and the enemy knows it. The Battle of the Somme, which is still proceeding, has shown that the Gex-man lines can be breached, and that not even the most thorough p ...

... was employed at the Middleton Colliery, has been killed action. Two Harrogate officers are among the wounded in the battle of the Somme. Sec.- Lieut. W. J. R. E. Poole has received a severe gunshot wound through the left arm. S*c.-Ll9irt. POOLE. Sec.-Lieut ...

... 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 ...