... since the battle of the Somme began. the Allies have succeeded in taking upwards of I z,ooo prisoners. The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes that the death knell of the Germans on the Western front is sounding on the Somme. This is ...

... 1916. THE WAR. Operations throughout the week on the different battle fronts show fine results for the Allies. The British line has gone steadily forward in the great battle of the Somme. They have reached the Bois des Foreaux, from which we drove the ...

... Gordon Highlanders, son of Mr Wm. Watt, Upper Forgie, Keith, has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery at the battle of the Somme. SnoT. ALIX. BLACK, 16th Canadian Infantry, eon of Mr Win Blank, 3 Marine Place, Buckle, lute just been ocamisigaei ...

... conspicuous gallantry. He joined the colours and received his commission quite early in the war. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme and invalided home for • time. His brother George, aged 26, second lieutenant of the Gordons, was killed in action on ...

... Jellicoe's dispatch on the Battle of Jutland was leaned yesterday by the Admiralty. It shows that the Germans suffered much more heavily than our Fleet, that they endeavoured to avoid coming to close quarters with our battle squadrons, awl that what was ...

... determination. For the first time since the offensive began the French afternoon communique made no mention of the Battle of the Somme. It. reports ' that to the north of the Aisne the Germans I made two frontal attacks, which were repulsed by machine ...

... commencement of the war. Colonel Stephen took part in the landing at Gallipoli, and rejoining in France he went through the battles on the Somme and at Arras and in Flanders last year. BANFF.—A meeting of discharged men was held in the Crown Temperance Hotel, ...