... advance by the British both north and south of the Somme seems likely to sweep past both sides of the famous ridge between Albert and the Somme, which we attacked frontr ally in the 1916 battle of the Somme. Little news reached London last evening from the ...

... Burning Towns. There is confirmation of the report that Peronne, on the Somme, 11 miles behind the German battle-front, burning. The town hastwice been wrecked already, but the Germans have probably erected there temporary and consequently inflammable ...

... of the Somme the day brought a remarkable advmce. In the afternoon the Allied forces were two miles east of Dornpierre on the way tc Peronne. and had passed through Soyecourt and Ablaincourt, villages which the French stormed in the first battle of the ...

... under your command their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved bv the Allied arms in this the third battle of 'the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to you and your most gallant troops. —Press Association Special Cor ...

... through the Hindenburg line, the British have in four days gained more ground than the Allies did in the whole first battle of the Somme. Bapaume was useless to the Germans to-day, and our troops held the whole lengths of the great roads which run thence ...

... January, 1915, and crossed to Fran ...

... VALUE OF THE SOMME OPERATIONS. The double advance tbe British both north and south of the Somme seems likely to sweep past both sides of the famous ridge between Albert and the Somme, which we attacked frontally in the T 916 battle of the ...