... stirred the experts far more than 14> general public. The interest of Bapaume is that it was the main object of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. We now seem, as a result of four days’ comparatively easy fizhting, to be within reach of the same results ...

... It ig interesting compare the result's; of the recent fighting the British French fronts in the Somme area with those achieved in the first hattle the Somme. From 1 July to 31 October, that is to say. ix-riod of lour months the British won square mile’s ...

... THE SOMME NOW AND 1916, PROGRESS MORE RAPID AND LESS COSTLY, London, Monday. It is interesting to compare the results of the recent fighting on the British and French fronte in the Somme ai’ea with those achieved in th© first battle of the Somme. From ...

... 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 ...

... the old Somme battlefields is in refreshing contrast to the protracted and bloody struggle which wc saw in the same’ area in 1916. The operations, indeed, are of an entirely different character, with different object. The first battle of the Somme was fought ...

... 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 ...

... Australians are again ui a wholly devastated country, the site the original French defences before and during the tir*t battle of the Somme. The woods shown ou the maps are mere skeletons, aud the ticlds rouud them full of old ditches and shell holes. Progress ...

... 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 ...

... threatens the enemy’s line on the Ancre and the famous ridge, the heart of the Somme battle of 1916. The British advance this morning further south between the Ancre at Albert and the Somme at Bray is obviously part of the same plan, since it threatens the ridge ...

... there they are defeated everywhere. It is not mere comciilcnce that has given three battles of Verdun, two battles of Champagne, three battles of the Somme, and four battles of That is the line on which Armageddon will be decided, one con ...