... JOHN BUCHANS The BATTLE OF THE SOMME (Nelson’s History of the War. Vol. 16) DESCRIBES THE SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR ARMIES IN SHATTERING THE GERMAN WESTERN LINE. Ready to-day. Cloth- Price 1/3 net ...

... 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 ...

... Pauses in the Battle of the Somme were frequent and sometimes long; and during each of them the enemy Press declared, as it is deejaring now, that the British advance had beeti stopped. it was on the Somme, it may well be in this new battle. The ground ...

... British have often, but not always, had marked superiority- nn their front, especially during the Battle of the Somme. In all air activities, during that battle, the British had a most useful advantage; but the cnemv was never suppressed, was able to cause ...

... Gavrelle. The progress is of the slow determined kind with which we became familiar during the Battle of the Somme. The enemy is in greater force than on the Somme, his resistance is even fiercer, and yet our advance has been more rapid and our losses less ...

... Somme drew to a close, the French troops who participated in the battle had taken 43,000 prisoners, 77 field guns, ,101 heavy guns, and hundreds of trench mortars and machine-guns. The winter arrested the battle at a most inopportune moment for us. Already ...

... SOMME MEMORIAL SERVICES No effort is being spared to accommodate so far as is possible the large number of those anxious to attend the sendees at Sheffield Cathedral to-morrow commemoration of the battle of the Somme. The chief places of honour on the ...

... presents a flank to us. The £rcat German salient that used to extend from Arras to Albert has been diminished, by the Battle of the Somme and subsequent operations, to something like half its original width, and is not made any more comfortable by being ...

... strategical move, and has been made under compulsion. It has been voluntary, and accordance with plans”; but if the Battle of the Somme had not been fought, or if it had ended a British failure, these plans would never have had to be made. Other things ...

... while withdrawing in such conditions without the risk of one day being outflanked. The battle from Arras to the Oise is therefore the consequence of the battle tho Somme, which led the enemy to recognise the necessity of retiring. If the Germans nave decided ...

... first fortnight was only 174, although Brusiloff’s prisoners in that time reached the total of 173,000. In the whole battle of the Somme the guns we captured numbered about 140. It always difficult base a calculation of the enemy’s total casualties on the ...

... been helped observation of German offensive tactics, notably at Verdun. although it is now nearly a year since the Battle of the Somme opened, the enemy has not availed himself of his knowledge of our ipethods to attempt an offensive of his n. So far ...