... existence. After eighteen days in the trenches here, the battalion enjoyed spell of eight days out. week later memorable Battle of the Somme opened with “ every gun a front of twenty-five miles speaking, and speaking without pause.” This battalion of the Gordon* ...

... ON THE SOMME AGAIN. Magnificent Stand by our; Troops, With the British Armiee, Monday night. The battle of the Somme fought bv armies the open. Along the flaming front from the wilderness oonvulsed by nearly three years trench warfare into the kills and ...

... the left of the battle front and the village of Bray the Somme, but has paused in massed attacks in order to reorganise his line and bring up his artillery. Gunned Masses. But he has made cautious movements for ward over the old Somme battlefields, which ...

... of the enemy is against our lute in those desolate tracts of Picardy, across which the Germans retreated after the battles of the Somme. Here j his tactical nor territorial gains can be much j value, and it would almost appear possible that i spectacular ...

... and stretch of the country east and south-east of Baupaume, which he abandoned to in his retreat last Match after the battles of the Somme. By a rapid turning movement from both he would hope capture many of our men a.id guns. It is a menace which cannot ...