... SOMME RESULTS. I’OWEU THE EEW BRITISH ARMY. GERMAN FAILURES. semi official message trom Pans, dealing with the successes in Prance, and particularly with the Battle the Somme, points out that the pow er of the new British Army, whose strength is daily ...

... upon the publication of the Somme dispatch—a report in which Sir Douglas played the modest part of a recorder of the deeds of others. But everyone knew in reading it, and knew before reading it, that the victor of the Somme is a born leader of men and ...

... work in connection with j City Council and the Sheffield Univers' Sheffield has come out very well ind( these great battles on the Somme. The Rest Room. We should like to call special attentio the letter* in our Correspondence Cob referring to the collection ...

... organised for war work. Of course there were blunders and muddles and failures : but Field Marshal Haig’s report on the battle of the Somme is the best testimony to what has come out of the chaos, thanks to the grit and determination behind the Ministry. The ...

... breathing space, after the battles of the Somme, to recuperate his strength, and reserve himself for future defensive efforts. He has been shunting his batteries about now that he is relieved little from the deadly concentration of (In Somme, but meanwhile our ...

... successes or the Somme lies in the fact that thev were made, to the amassment of the enemy, just after the French had beaten oti the greatest assault wlich the enemy had ever boon able to delsvei During the fii.?t fortnight of the battle of the Somme French Verdun ...

... on the Somme lies in the fact that they were made to the amazement of the enemy just after the French Army had beaten off the greatest assault which the enemy had ever been able to deliver. During the first fortnight of the battle of the Somme, the French ...

... line of a. complete system of German trenches—an old and original system trenches like those at Fricourt before the battles of the Somme -involving front of about 3,000 yards, with only score or so of casualties alt told our side. and picking their way ...

... picture house in the neighbourhood of the works, fur afternoon shows of war pictures, including the uffic film of the Battle of the Somme.” A returned soldier with capacity for descriptive talk has been retained, to make explanatory remarks with regard to ...

... cinematography. The film of The Battle of the Somme w 7 as wonderful enough, but The Battle of the Ancre, and the advance of the Tanks is more marvellous, though the War Office censors have cut out the gruesomeness which makes the Somme film an uncomfortable, ...

... it. They knew what they were fighting for, and they knew they could achieve it, and they believed worth while. The battle of the Somme had opened the eyes of Germany, and she saw defeat in front of her. > ...

... and was present at the evacuation. I.ater he went to Egypt and afterwards to France, where fought'through the great battle of the Somme. is the youngest, son of the late Mr. G. P. Wincott, furnace builder and engineer, and prior to the war was employed ...