... old lines from which they emerged to the attack in the Battle of the Somme on July Ist, 1916. Further south, the enemy have captured and they seem have gained a firm footing across the River Somme. The Kaiser boasts to his Empress that his Armies in the ...

... We drove the enemy back here to the old positions which held betwee i the Ancre and the Somme before the beginning of the Somme battle in 1916. Between the Somme and the Oise our troops are fighting their way forward.—Admiralty, per Wireless Press. JUNCTION ...