... every yard of this ‘had been fortified to the utmost extent which German ingenuity could devise. The battle of the Somme has been compared with the battle of Verdun, and the British in one month have made twice or thrice the progress which the Germans were ...

... Thiaumont Work failed. —Oentral News. Paris, Friday. After some the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course the battle on the Somme front, the British, comprising Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, have driven the famous Brandenourgers ...