... ENEMY ESTRENCHIN Pants, Sunday.—According to the latest news, there was a lull 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 out en- trenchment work with ...

... HE WHEW BATTLE OF THE SOMME BAI SPECIAL. MANS S ILL KL TP. HEAVY ATTACKS DRIVEN OFF TO-DAY’S BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT The following British offic: ial report was issued at 11.5 am. today:— . As a result of er afteripon and eve remy attacks yesterday ming ...

... IGHT FRENCH WITHDRAW AI. tater writer -— Parts, Tuesday.—Reuter’s expert commen- A itresh panse has intervened in the battle on the Somme front, which was only atfimated by reciprocal bombardment. There was, in- deed, no infantry but a renewal of the attack ...

... German onslaughts. It is also no violation ip to announce that the Ameri- can Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may for some time, and that American forces may possibly be the means of tipping the scale. Every officer of tho General ...

... A Germany has thrown away all retence. The abject of the second battle of the Somme is to crush France and Great Britain, and reduce them to shameful 1 potent That is the Con himself and hi. Czernin definitely pledges country as Germany's accomplices ...

... life in the Army has been a very exciting one, as ha was wounded in the first battle of the Somme. He joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1015, and went to France the same year. Later he was transfrred to the Somarset Light Infantry. In 1917 hé journeyed ...

... the ‘field ambulance, then at th in Greece. and later had six months forces. in Egypt. He also went Vina the first battle of the Somme in Foresters the recent Mital Angers {yn FLAG DAY.—On Saturday, na flag day will he held in the city baer that will ...

... :— In ter u strategic retreat was a 6u T we er favoured the secrecv¥ of ive withdrawal, which was the result of the Battle cf the Somme, and a precaution gainst the offensive. The enemy withdrew, hoping to return again, and, in- deed, he did return. We ...

... Haig continued urin the day. Our troops are now fighting Santerre, the which the French country over fought during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and of which every ruined villag eis familiar to many of the \ The line reached this afternoon runs. through ...

... his death arrived. One brother, Ralph, well known as an amateur forward of the Grimsby Town F.C. was killed in the Battle of the Somme; another, Sidmey, was wounded in the same fight, and is now discharged; while yet another, Albert, is a P.O. in the ...

... speech. “In the light of actual his- tory,’ he said, “ the battle of Jutland wae one of the turni: i of the conflict.” Regarding Mr. Lioy : reference to eerved: “What a paltry and the Battle of the Somme, Mr. Asquith ob- re- Cognition of one of the finest episodes ...

... for the wisdom it has shown in seein, at the Western front is the de. isive fi e cid. We may rejeice too that in tls battle of the Somme British Genc Is and British treops are wiping out the stain of the spring retreat, and are giving the at least as good ...