... BAPAUME. Bapa ume, which stands on a plateau north of the Somme, must be simply a of ruins. As a result of the battle of the Somme, the Germans retired from it in March lust year. They did not apparently expect to return to it, otherwise they would have ...

... battlefield. The position is that :Is MUell has been achieved in three slays in the present battle as in six months' hard fighting in the first battle of the Somme. That in to say achievement as iepresented by territorial ; t win upon the map. But the a ...

... new Battle of the Sonune began. If the enemy has hitherto been unable.° re-act, we meat nut too hastily assume that it is because' the moral of his soldiers has been shattered 1 , beyond hope of recovery, or that the German armies in this battle area ...

... beaten. It is not the result of a •erieel of accidents that there have been two battles of the Marne, three battles of Verdun, three battles of the Somme. and fear battles of Ypres. The enemy be beaten as decisively before Bapaume as at ...