... tenant Smith, who was only ninet particular object. which made it quite impossible to aim at any when he fell during the battle of the Somme in Ulster coast. INovember 1916, was the younger son of Dr. A. The first torpedo fired by the submarine missed The raids ...

... immunity.. tions which have been wrested from the enemy It is necessary 'to be knocked down in order to since the battle of the Somme, and the recapture appreciate the strange darkness of our streets, the of which, as the beginning of a great o ff ensive ...

... positions in the rear, plays no part in the Germans' 1918 scheme of defensive warfare, and for a very good reason. The battle of the Somme not only demonstrated that the three lines of trenches must go down in the end before a protracted assault,hut that ...

... SCHEME. 'IRST CAMBRAI BATTLE PLAN EXTENDED. The immediate endeavour of the enemy seems obvious. It is an enlargement •of his strategical plan in the attack on November 30, against the lines we held after the first Cambrai battle, and it covers the same ...

... We have now reacoed the sixth day of the battle. The enemy so tar unable to record any decision. It has been possible for him, it is true, to retake a ?onion of the ground he lost during the battle of the Somme. but up to the present he has in no aay ...

... to-day). Although, so far, we possess only incomplete information, it appears certain that the German losses in the battle of the Somme are enormous. Prisoners interrogated on March 25 stated that the 88th Division was almost wiped out, while the 206th ...

... days of similar fortune the Allies 'will be more easy in mind. According to the latest news there w•as a luU in the battle of the Somme to-day, the attacks being 'less violent and less numerous. • On the other hand, it is observed that the enemy is carrying ...

... WESTMINSTER GAZETTE NOTES OF THE DAY. Little change has been wrought in the situation in the battle on the Somme front. We may say that the enemy south of the Somme is now as definiteiv held as he has been for scime da i s north of the river. In counter-attack: ...

... Rawlinson was one of three Generals --Sir Edmund Allenby and Sir Hubert Gough being the others—who, after the first battle of the Somme, in 1916, were reported by Sir Diugizs Haig to be e qual to every call on them. He has seen much active service in ...

... he between the Ancre and the Luce, in that part of the Somme fighting lin , which is nt .crest Amittis, and :Inost due cast of the city. They arc about seven miles apart, Mericourt being of the Somme, and Villers-l3retonneux south of it.l . . FROM REUTER'S ...

... tenacious, and brave, did not suffice. No, the results of :he battle of the Somme in 1916 have not been and cannot be nullified. They are graven on the rock of history. The battle of the Somme was before ever% thing a trial of skill and valour in war. The ...

... by the British troops those operations. The ground then gained has since been lost, Id the results of those battles, as welt as of the battles round )re,, apparently undone. But if there is one impression left by s clear, lorei , and judi baggy minded ...