... WEAPONS IN DELYILLE WOOD. PARIS, Friday. 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 ...

... recent telegrams, le a very important one, and ita oapture by t►s British is one of the outstanding incidents of the Battle of the Somme. The village stands the summit of a small plateau, and is a vantage point for artillery fire on neighbouring positions ...

... General L,ukin expressing their pride, admiration, and malefaction at the part played by the South Africans in the battle of the Somme._ —.— Under its extended powers of fixing prices the Australian Government has proclaimed that the prices charged for ...

... 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, ...

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

... completion of the capture of Posietvis by the British troops may be regarded as concluding tly second phase of the Battle of the Somme. Along this part of the line and further north tile Germans occupy a long ridge of ground which affords them peculiar ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... haustod and could more. Waterloo was toe battle a day and decided the fate Europe for half a century : the battle of the Somme may for weeks or even months; yet toe German line getting attenuated both the eastern and the western fronts, and with the gradual ...

... telegraphed to General Lukin expressing their pride, admiration, and satisfaction the part played by the South Africans the battle of the Somme. Under its extended powers fixing prices the Australian Government has proclaimed that tho prices charged for a long ...

... way the balance of the battle. What it means is that in close hand-to-hand fighting our troops are maintaining, undiminished the steady, relentless pressure upon the enemy's position which has characterised the battle of the Somme from the outset, and that ...

... west.” The ““ Times says of - the situation: “Though no one, and, least of all, Sir Douglas lh;gk, expects the great battle of the Somme to partake of the character of a supreme decision, yet it had already .reached dimensions and assumed a form [Norwich ...