... embarkation at Marseilles was announced at Dublin by Mr. Asquith, we may reasonably hope that it will play a flanking rôle on the Somme similar to that of Bliicher at Waterloo and of the Crown Prince's army at Königgrätz. Small wonder that the German cruiser ...

... fare in what might be called the Mesopotamia of Northern France—or the region watered by the rivers Marne, Aisne, Oise, and Somme ; and while the spirit of our gallant, muchenduring soldiers has never been higher and gayer, in spite of all their cruel losses ...

... has seized on the whole German Army, especially that portion of it confronting the Allies on the Aisne, the Oise, and the Somme. For demoralisation is the only word that will account for the increasing tendency of the German troops to surrender. According ...

... the Syrian quarter, but it might just as well move against the Nile Cataracts for all it can do to achieve its aim. Nous y sommes, et, nous y restons —to paraphrase MacMahon's famous mot at the Malakoff. LONDON, NOVEMBER 30, 1914. ...

... eldest son, the Black Prince, stood together at a windmill in Picardy and directed the battle of Crecy .(1346), near the river Somme, a short motor-ride only from the Lys, there has been 1 othing in our annals like this contemplation of the German battle-lines ...

... headway in the region of Pinsk ; and if, lower WHERE THE MAIN FRENCH ATTACK IS BEING PRESSED FORWARD IN CHAMPAGNE. Map showing Somme-Py, the immediate objective, and the railway line which is of vital importance to the Germans as connecting all their positions ...

... of the Channel as far as Havre might have been hers. Her cavalry screens hit th were pushing out through Pas de Calais and Somme, lines of communication were hurriedly evacuated, and base ports cleared. Some French Terri¬ torials and a handful of British ...

... between St. hiiauc-le-Grand^an^d ^e^ur ^Tsunday Germans launched a series of power u a Somme-Py-Tahure road. night at the French line about Tahure. near the Somme Pylah ^ ^ This was the mam gain of the French m th P attempts to hold has always been of ...

... of the Somme the village of Frise had been taken, as well as 3500 metres of trench to the south of it 1270 prisoners, 13 machine-guns, and some bomb lowers The French report lack the concern which Berlin mus have expected The attack on the Somme is the ...

... down in their rush. By the 16th the French were already recapturing some of the works taken bv the Germans near the Tahure-Somme-Py road, and the process of recapture continued through the week, the German effort gradually falling into inertia as the strenuous ...

... of encounters. The Germans attacked Steenstraate and failed, and a gas attack on a five-mile front at Lihons (south of the Somme) met the same fate early in the week. A more purposeful movement on the Vimy ridge, against the French trenches in Givenchy ...

... The movement, on the extreme edge of the gains made by the French last autumn—that is, in the neighbourhood of the Souain-Somme-Py road—stopped after the [Con tin tied overleaf. A RUSSIAN PRISONER'S INGENIOUS HANDI¬ WORK • ATABLE SET, WITH CHAIN AND KEY ...