... YORKSHIRE Friday, July 28th, 1916. War JYofes. AVERY remarkable story of the first days of the battle of the Somme is told in a Bavarian Colonel's diary which fell into our hands when he was taken prisoner. In some respects it is not accurate, tor the ...

... Paris eorrespondent of the Exchange Telesraph Co. in describing the fighting says: — For the second time since the battle of the Somme, the Germaas, who had brought up eonsiderable reinforcements at the expense of the Verdun front. attempted a powerful ...

... THIRD PHASE OF THE ALLIES' ADVANCE. Although to the lay mind the progress of the Allies in the battle of tue Somme may appear somewhat slow tvie work achseved and being achieved is of a most important character, and 1s a preparaton for more distmct gains ...

... to see than an official exposure the lying character of German war news has been made, with special reference to the battle of the Somme, which has been grotesquely misrepresented to the German people and to the neutrals. This particular instance confirms ...

... disaster formed going through the inevita * Now the amazing, the absolutely unique thing about le line of stragglers. the battle of the Somme is that there has been literally no ‘ raw edge’ to these assaults on fortified positions, All the testimony of the ...

... honours at Holbeck Ceme- tery: Leeds, this afternoon. ‘The dead soldier received wounds to the back and shoulder durin he battle of the Somme, and he succumbed to his injuries at St, Thoinas’s Hospital, London, on Monday. Hoe was 23 years of age, single, and ...

... outbreak of fhe war worked at Fairbairn’s Wellington Foundry, Leeds, was killed in and five children. action in the battle of the Somme. He leaves a widow Private C, F. Pacey (21), Regiment, has succumbed to a wound i the head inflicted by a Ger- man eniper ...

... will be simply misleading. Care is especially necessary when we are dealing with events not completed, such as the Battle of the Somme. Nevertheless it is not amiss to turn back at the present time, as several commentators have done lately, to Grant’s ...

... accompanying map from Mr. H. Warner Allen, tho representative of the British Press with the French Army illustrates the Battle of the Somme from July July 10. YOKKSHIEE FARMERS’ UNION Mr, T. Harrison (Marr Hall) presided at the meeting- of the Yorkshire Farmers’ ...

... from Major-General R. Wanless O'Gowan, congratu ating the West Yorkshire Regmments on thear splendid behaviour in the battle of the Somme on July 1, together with the Lord Mayor's reply, should be smtably framed and hung im the Cart‘wright Memorial Hall ...

... SPEED SE ISS THE ND PHASE VEY. Pozieres is logically regarded as con- The capture of cluding the second p! hase of the Battle of the Somme. We are now well established on the line to which our second main push—that which began on July 14—was directed. The ...

... Correspondent.) Fleet Street, Sunday Night. A RETURN to cold grey skies and the news in the afternoon editions that the Battle of the Somme, now three weeks old, has entered on a still more desperate stage, at the moment pretty indecisive, has made London ...