... little from shell-fire, and although the artificially flooded area south of the Scarpe and the southern fringe of the old Somme battle-ground are so bad as to be largely impas.sable, vet between these wide limits the going is still feasible, even though ...

... order to prepare for future inroads into the Hindenburg defensive quern. According to this journal, the methods of the battle of the Somme in 1916 may be effectively ►enewed, with the difference that infantry will not precede the march, but that the land ...