... that have captured 110 square miles of ground in the first four days of tlio battle, as against 44 square miles which took in the first four months of the battle of the Somme in 1916. ...

... Pastor enhardt why our men were deliberately starved, and they explained that it was a punishment, because during the battle of the Somme the British kept German prisoners three days in the front line without food. Evidently they believed this,” Singer, ...

... disaster's which •vertook the Austro-Hungarian armies in Serbia aud Galicia ; in Germany it has been ebbing since the Battle of the Somme and since December’ 1916 when the Kaiser himself inaugurated chatter about peace” with his letter to Chancellor von ...

... Conan Doyle’s History the War is resumed with the first connected and detailed account the Battle of the Somme 1916, which decribee “thegreatest one-day battle ever known in the world’s history.” WAITIKG FOB THE TRAIN. CORNER FRANCE. (Bj Cicelt Hamilton ...

... gratefully received by Mrs Dunlopifdl. Howard Place.--.ld' 7 . THE NEW BATTLE OF THE SOMME. (By Mia* H. 8. CHEETHAM.I It is yood hiding the fact that this check south of the Somme, in view of the numbers of prisoners and gum taken, hits hard.” —Koclnische ...

... FRONT. objectives, and this year enemy em- THE i j in It was in February that the result • effort £taly the spring Battle of the Somme became ttUinmer our Italian Allies had made Begun in the previous summer ana c - p ro resg t a points against the tinued ...