... commentary regards this gain as specially important, because it increases our command of high and valuable ground. The battle of the Somme continues to be marked by Movement, and each week brings fresh successes, which are solidly maintained. In Galicia the ...

... has climbed in and out of trenches which saw desperate fighting in the early of the battle of the Somme, has gone into German dug-outs and picked up relies of the battle with his own hands. The King and his party were the first visitors to go into a town ...

... COMPARISON WITH VERDUN. How expensive in the aggregate this battle has been 15 illustrated by what seems to me a fact of the first importance—l:lamely, the Germans have now used in the battle of the Somme as many divisions as they used in the whole of the Verdun ...