... Good Hope, which was sunk in the battle off Chili. The table which Marshal Joffre and General Foch have sat. where King Georse wrote letters to front, and where Sir Douglas Haig is said to have planned tho battle of the Somme is there, and so is a clod of ...

... present day. The battles on the Somme had been terribly costly to our Army, according War Office returns of casualties, and time was needed to replace these, losses by soldiers with a minimum of tiaining. To put untrained men into modern battles to invite ...