... sentimonlof . amrivorsary it Idsgs . importance from coming in the very middle of the non-fighting part of the year . The Battle of tha Somme has been quiescent for more than a month . On the Russian front there has been nothing doing for several months . Only ...

... thanks to their effort:, the enemy has nowhere been able to achieve a success of any importance by mining. During the battle of the Somme the work of the Tunnelling Companies contributed in no 'small degree to the successful issue of several operations. ...

... Eklter, and Co.>, by Jaeut. jC'liiani Noel Hodgson, late of the 9th Devon fi■■Kuiiont, an Old Dunelmian. who fell Battle of the Somme, July I, 1916. ...

... despatch from orr commander at the front, and it made them realise how much, we owe to thoeo who.fonght in the gigantic battle of the Somme. every line that message there rang joy of victory and the consciousness of' power. Then when they considered how msny ...

... flimsier the better. When we read of all the assaults the Allies having collapsed during the past year, we think of the Battle of the Somme as recorded in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch, of the glory of the French Verdun, of the brilliant offensive of our ...

... mine sweepers, trawlers, etc.; “The Broken Wing,” a new volume of poetry by the Hindu poet, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu; * The Battles of the Somme,”’ a new book, by Mr. Philip Gibbs; a cheap, shilling edition of * The Nature of Man,” by Elie Metchnikoff. Tue Iris ...

... were not successes at all. Nineteen sixteen brought tv all-important events in the Jutland beaitle, and the Somme episode. The Jutland battle is still a sore point with many sturdy Britishers. Consequences have proved to us (far more than the communiqués ...

... bayonet posted beside the pdlpit. Two pagee give sOdal photographs ' of inside British submarine, and another views battle noil the Somme front—gone and flame-projectors. the “Queen gives first piece to plea. ing portrait of'the Grand Dnoheae George of ...

... from Gallipoli. HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE. General Sir Douglas Haig has received well-deserved promotion for the Battle of the Somme. It is announced to-night that has been appointed a Field-Marshal distinguished service in the field. Field- Marshal ...

... Dominion and quarter of the Empire, whether Regulars, Territorials, or men of the New Armies, have borne a share in the Battle of the Somme. While some have been more fortunate than others in opportunities for dir. tinction, all have done their duty nobly ...

... county had responded—as teachers might have been expected do—to the call of duty. SURREY' SACRIFICES. KUT, JUTLAND BATTLE, AND THE SOMME. war necessarily moans suffering and sacrifice has been borne in u.ion in very special\iianncr during the past year ...

... gloomy. (mrm.mi has done little to Justify her claums during the past vear. She boasts of victories, but we reeall vhe battles of the Somme, of Verdun, and of Jutland. To represent these as German victornes may scem the height of wisdom and cunning to the ...