... ENDURANCE, UNITY AND VICTORY The great and terrible battle of the Somme is bringing us within sight of victory. Whether the end will come suddenly, or whether the enemy will be able to sustoin the conflict until next, year no man can say with certainty; ...

... engaged In the battle of the Somme in northern France is given In the official statement from Berlin last night, in which it is stated that more than 200,000 French and British troops attacked the German lines north and south of the Somme Thursday on a ...

... Seton-road, received the news on Thursday that her youngest son Alfred, a private in the Royal Fusiliers, was killed in the battle of the Somme on July Ist. was aged 19, and he with three friends was among the first to join the Army, in 1914. Of these his cousin ...

... round through a knot of ruined villages, returning from observation post,’ from which I had been watching this glorious battle of the Somme, came,’ says Lord Ksher, upon the familiar kilts and some familiar faces of a battalion of the Black Watch. After all ...

... clerk at Messrs. Tilling and Stevens', joining up in July last year. He was wounded by shrapnel on July Ist in the battle of the Somme, and is now at Gravesend Hospital,, making satisfactory progress, • . —— - •..-. . . .• • .- •. .. .•.•.•.• .• ...

... 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 ...

... Caversham, the death of thoir second son, Gunner Reginald Lusty, R.F.A., who was killed in action on July 9th in the battle of the Somme. The captain, writing to his mother, said: I am very sorry to have to tell you that your son, who hae been in the battery ...

... Captain )-13ili Jane. This is th. 104th week of the war, while to-day (Saturday) is the 159th day of Verdun battle, and 29th day of the Battle of the Somme. ...

... only son of Mrs. J. L. Garvin and of the editor of the Obsener. The young officer was killed last Sunday in The battle on the Somme. He was beloved by all who knew him, and with his fill at the age of twenty goes out a life of high promise. His colonel ...

... corrtespondent of the Westmineter GazeWte” writes :—The capture of Pozieres is one the most significant events -the battle of the Somme, end may prove decSsive. Both and command >naih roads converging upon Bbpahme and the Fonreaux Wood, a crossroad betwteen ...

... is done in vain they might have added after three weeks of battle. We tahe all this very quietly at home,' but to Ahe outside world it is one of the surprises of history. When the long:Battle of the Somute began, any one three things might have been looked ...

... THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF BATTLE. GERMAN FUTILITY. PARIS, Saturday The thirty-first day of the battle in the Somme district brought no material modification on the whole of the front. North and south of the Somme the French organised the positions captured ...