... default of our Ally in the East, will perhaps never ' be fully understood by the Russians. When the harvest of the Battle of the Somme was reaped hat April and the areas ass and F . rtauch advanced to the , my pipet MOMS as to be he Hi mob assault upon ...

... Hindenburg Line. whose strength and complexity is a prolific source of legends in neutral and enemy countries. After the battle of the Somme our armies have no reason to be apprehensive of what the enemy can do in the way of field fortifications. On the Ancre ...

... capacity of chief officer. Private Ernest King's lioyal Rifljs, 1.0 wa« reported missing since last September after the battle of the Somme, is now reported kiiloij action. the nephew of .nd Mrs Bellamy. Kirkella, and grandson of S. f- ole, and before enlisting ...

... Herts men he took part nearly every action of importance from the first battle of Ypres to the battle of Loos, and as a brigadier he fought in the early stages of the battle of the Somme. So that has seen much of the Western war as most men. ...

... success predicted for it, and of 11Pwers, and that the foliage of the ._..,_ ff . (b.f.. that p4eturea such as the Battle of the Somme, which which en in merits it deserves to be. Already tables had • very good effect down the a reveal the great expenditure ...

... desperate mature of the battle, and now tions. We were mear it once, only in fact |declares that the struggle is mnot over a few miles from its gates, but the task then although Hindenburg said that the battle of : y the Somme had been won. was too big ...

... entitled “ Why we attack,” the “Matm says: Foreseeing that the enemy’s plan consisted in cscaping our grip, of which the battle of the Somme made him fecl the severe effects, the French Command widened its plan, in agreement with our Allies, so that we are ...

... past They are practically all veomen who enlist 4 from love of France and faith in the justice o her cause. Since the battle of the Somme 1t nas bean found impossible to maintain the Legion + France at the strength of two regiments owi'2 to the decline in ...

... that our losses are either excessive or spproaching in severity those shown by the Germans. Battle of Arras wiil eat into the German Army as the Battle of the Somme did, and as other parts of the are de- pleted of men to feed the siorm-centre, Hindenburg ...

... hud hitherto had ir.eaaa al! carrying our aerial warfare into enemy country. had already t>aid that ever since the battle of the Somme had a clear military superiority in the air. and small scale could have followed that up by bombing enemy centres they ...

... Itermans of the battle of the Somme : * lJ- oomradea. you who rnuat sleep on the oomme You were our firm defence. grave mound a bulwark, was which it cover*. Your name* are songs. Farewell comrades of the Somme ? The children Germanv *»y ‘Somme.’ and they ...

... disaster come upon him, is more rapid, over the time in which it has been in progress, than that which was achieved in the battle of the Somme. Satisfactory as that feature necessarily is, the greater feet most still be boras n mind that the results of the struggle ...