... Narrowing of the Battle Front. The tendency of a battle-line is always to shrink somewhat after the first shock. Thus, in our Cambrai offensive, we opened on a much wider front than that on which the battle shortly afterwards developed. This limitation ...

... have now reached the sixth day of the battle. The enemy so far is unable to record any decision. It has been possible for bim, it is true, to retake a portion of the ground he lost during the battle of the Somme, but up to the present he has in no nay ...

... erected in the Cathedral Yard in Sheffield, and will be unveiled on Monday, July 1 next, on the second anniversary of the battle of the Somme. It is hoped that the ceremony will be the occasion for an imposing military procession and dedicatory service. _ . ...

... continues his chief pressure ; further north the severity of the battle has diminished, no doubt temporarily. The enemy has now recovered most of the ground lost by him in the Battle of the Somme and the subsequent retreat. But the regaining of the wilderness ...

... of the enemy is against our line in those desolate tracts of Picardy, across which the Germans retreated after the battles of the Somme. Here neither his tactical nor territorial gains can be of much value, and it would almost appear possible that spectacular ...