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... the battles in which the rew armies were engaged from the beginning of tha Arras offensive in April last to the close of tho struggle in Flanders in . November . They- successfully withstood severer tests than any imposed upon them at the Somme ; they ...
... achievements in the present war . They fought superbly in tie fust and third battles of Ypres , at Fcstubert , at Loos , at Arras , and on the Somme . At the first battle of Ypres , where the English Army , incredibly inferior in numbers , guns , and ...
... the second battle of Ypres , -vrhen the Germans during three -weeks in . Apr il and May 1915 renewed their attempt to break the 3 eft wing of the Allies , that the new English infantry showed of ¦ wba . t stuff they were made . The battle opened by a ...
... cataclysm of those early days on tho Somme . Tho 15 th and 16 th Koyal Scots wero posted beforo the village and close to where the mine exploded , whon tho advance began . The story ef tho advance is written on the Dcld of battle at various points under the eye ...
... Augustwhich is believed to bo a record . The Glasgow Tramways ' battalion passed through Albert , tho great gateway to the battle of tho Somme , whoro tho Madonna , holding aloft tho infant Christ , now extends her arms in a seemingly impossiblo position , from ...
... AXD FLAXDERS , . Vol . III ., 1916 , in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme . Uniform ¦ with above— The British Campaign in France and Flanders , Vol . I ., 1914 ( Third edition}— The British ...
... . Miles j On tie ^ nap are shown the Allies' line before the Battle of the Somme , and the positions to which advance was made when the enemy were forced back to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of last year . Tho area between tie two lines is the region ...
... the close of yesterday they may be said to have recovered the greater part of the area won by the Allies in the great battles of the Somme in ihe summer of 1916 and of ihe ^ jrqund subsequentl y evacuated by the German armies . Such gains must Be measured ...
... Wood ; . German guns were shelling Fnoourt Wood arid village and Matnetj , tneir old line at the begmningofthe First Battle of tho Somme * , It was not a particularly he&vj bombardtne nt-npthmg like outs , which was hammering fiercely at the enemy ' s ...
... us lie sixth day of what may be called tne second Battle of the Somme , tie enemy lias further advanced tne bead of Ms attacking columns in ihe direction of Paris , and at the same time has narrowed his driving front . West of the Sonime , in the region ...
... cost , also ; has already been much heavier than he had reckoned uuon . The course of the Somme is still the main centre of interest and of danger in the great battle . And it is exactly at this critical point that the enemy has met with E 5 s most noteworthy ...
... P . uiis , March 31 . —Reuter s Expert Commen- tator , writing last night , says : — Since Friday ovemng-tho battle on tbe Somme has been renewed with redoubled violence on a front of 60 kilometres , extending in the-form of a . right angle . from ...