... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... who appeared for the defence, that the prisoner had served as an officer in the Black Watch, and was wounded at the battle of the Somme by a bursting shell. All the money obtained by the prisoner had been repaid by relatives, and the Recorder, in binding ...

... 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 ...

... little from shell-fire, and although the artificially flooded area south of the Scarpe and the southern fringe of the old Somme battle-ground are so bad as to be largely impas.sable, vet between these wide limits the going is still feasible, even though ...

... order to prepare for future inroads into the Hindenburg defensive quern. According to this journal, the methods of the battle of the Somme in 1916 may be effectively ►enewed, with the difference that infantry will not precede the march, but that the land ...

... 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 ...

... Twopence. . There is evidence that these events are making a pro found THE OLD SOMME BATTLE AND THE NE W. THE BEST IN LIFE By MURIEL HINE. COMPARISONS between the Somme battle of to-day and the impression on the enemy people. None of the familiar p hrases ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...