... COUNTY ARMAGH. POBTADOWN. In the battle of the Somme Portadown suffered heavily. the casualties amounting to well over 100. Up to the present 30 men are TO. Ported to been killed or died of wound , . .80 wounded. and 3 missing. making a total of The following ...

... the west. The 'Times says of the situation: Though no one, and, least of all. Sir Douglas Haig, expects the great battle of the Somme to pertake of the character of a supreme decision, yet it has already reached dimensions and nssumed a po form which ...

... 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, • . —— - •..-. . . .• • .- •. .. .•.•.•.• .• ...

... patrol* in the neighbourhood of yesterday. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front the Central News Psria correspondent) the British, oomprwing Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, ...

... recent telegrams, is a Mery important one, and its capture by the British is one of th© outstanding incident} of the Battle of the Somme. The village stunds on the summit of small plateau, and is a vantage point for artillery fire on neighbou ring positions ...

... 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 ...

... during the week, and the whole of the 24 bods are now' occupied with men some of whom have been wounded in the recent battle on the Somme. Since the commencement of the war 181 wounded soldiers have been treated at the Home, all of whom have been discharged ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. MORE BRITISH SUCCESSES. GERMANS SWEPT OUT OF LONCUEVAL. AT CLOSE CRIPS NEAR POZIERES. [British Ofllcial.] Headquarters, France, Friday, 10.15 p.m. Continuing their successes yesterday our troops liave captured tho enemy stronßholds ...