... GAINS. PROBABLE HALT FOR MORE ARTILLERY WORK. . A semi-official statement issued in Paris on Tuesday night says: Tlie battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for oar arms. The advance of the ...

... British advance, have engaged German regiments which might otherwise have been shifted to the flanks of out Ally. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation markedly superior, in one very important inspect, to that the German ...

... DELVILLB WOOD WAS CLEARED. Paris, July 28. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front the British, comprising Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, have driven the famous Brandenburgers ...

... were in the air the whole day. FRENCH ACCOUNT. STORY OF THE BATTLE. GROUND LOST AND WON BY BRITISH ARMY. SOUTH STAFFORDS’ DISTINCTION The bombardment which was the essential preliminary the battle proper began six o’clock on Saturday mornsng, but the Press ...

... THE SOMME ATTACK. HOW SUCCESS OP OFFENSIVE WAS LAID. Paris, Thursday Air. IT. Warner Alien, special correspondent of tho British Press with tho French armies says au authoritative acoouut of tho first phases of the battle on the Somme will published the ...

... out essential part in the great advance tluur brothers in arms, and the knowledge that the splendid progress made the battle of the Somme has been due in a large measure to our v big shells should cause the men nml women in the munition factories realise ...

... prisoners. South of the Somme we completed the occupation of Estrees. We took 200 prisoners. The communication trenches connecting Eslrees and Belloy having been occupied by us, the whole German second position to the south of the Somme is now in our power ...

... July Lamps on vehlolos llgfitotf 8.42 Restricted lighting BATTLE RESUMED. “INTENSE” STRUGGLE ON BRITISH FRONT. TERRITORIALS & ANZACS ENTER POZIERES. GERMANS STILL IN LONGUEVAL. The battle of the Somme was yesterday on the British front from Pozieret to Guillemont ...

... The French have also Birmingham- O'awdtr. STOP PRESS. EKE NT’S TUT. ilr. H. Warner Alien, writing lash night on the battle of- the Somme, says:—lu less than fortnight front of tea miles long with a maximum miles, the French have carried square miles of ...

... bomb-proofs and ruined trenches. Von Wiegand comments the lack of details in the Berlin official statements regarding the battle of the Somme. He says the ** German General Staff has shown disposition lift the veil, and is evidently indifferent to opinion ont-; ...

... violence on both banks of Somme.” This would appear « indicate that the Anglo-French s®, j are preparing the way for fresh ' onslaught, and may look with confidence the result. It is the view of military ~ that the battle of the Somme is lijsh to prove one ...

... THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE SOMME BATTLE. British Hradquaetebb, France, July 8. One of the most brilliant facets in the whole lustrous chapter our military story is the share which our airmen bore in the fighting in the battle of the Somme, and the influence they ...