... the battle, and last night being denier, German airmen had greater opptrtunitv to bomb back areas, including open Frensli towns. A TIDAL WAVE. Second Battle of the Soave. Fighting in the Open. FRANCE, Monday night. The 'wand battle of the Somme is beirg ...

... line may threaten buckle under the ferocity of the German onslaught. The Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that American forces may possibly the means of tipping the scale. Every officer of the ...

... and rose to corporal in April, 1915. H© was given a commission in another battalion of the N.F., was wounded at the battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, and was awarded Military Cross. Lately he had been transferred a different battalion of the same regiment ...

... cartmen in their employ. )esiori.lay being the second antrivetsary of charge of the Ulster Divit,ion at the opening battle of the Somme. wreiths nem placed in front of Belfast City Hall by the Lady Mayoress and other ladies in memory of the men who kiM ...

... General French in the defence of Ypres, and he was associated with Sir Douglas Haig in the plan and execution of the Battle of the Somme. When the Allied Reserve was created under the aegis of the Supreme Council at Versailles, Foch was appointed to the ...

... important to me two years ago. In October, 1916, the battle of the Somme was coming to an end. The first battle of the Somme they call it now, but in those days it seemed the only possible one. The last battle of the season was to take place ...

... held at the beginning of July, 1916, on the eve of the beginning of the great, the long, and the ultimately successful Battle of the Somme. At the most, then, the enemy baa restored the position as it existed twenty months ago. Re may accomplish much more ...

... ex-Lance-Corporal E. Chandler, South Lancashire Resriment, with the D C.M. won him on July 27th, 1916, when, during: the Battle of the Somme, he for two hours brought, in wounded under heavy fire. Chandler, who lives at 39. Victor Street, is rivet heater Messrs ...

... battlefield. The position is that :Is MUell has been achieved in three slays in the present battle as in six months' hard fighting in the first battle of the Somme. That in to say achievement as iepresented by territorial ; t win upon the map. But the a ...

... of wasted resources and blasted hopes. The salient was the result of the great battle ot April which followed closely upon the so far successful second Battle of the Somme. The enemy lost very heavily, but he made an awkward bulge in our lines; he captured ...

... divisions, but the onslaught collapsed before our battle positions partly as the result of formidable counter-attacks. If south of the Somme there was comparative quiet, August 22 north the Somme was the battle day, which was all the greater, but also more ...

... new Battle of the Sonune began. If the enemy has hitherto been unable.° re-act, we meat nut too hastily assume that it is because' the moral of his soldiers has been shattered 1 , beyond hope of recovery, or that the German armies in this battle area ...