... BATTLE OF SOMME DISPATCH. ALL OBJECTS ATTAINED. GRAND WORK NEW ARMIES. The dispatch General Sir Douglat. Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in France, the great Battle of the Somme was issued night. It describes the battle at> ...

... successes on the Somme lies the fact that they were made, to the amazement ot the enemy, just after the French had beaten oft the greatest assault which the enemy had over been able to deliver. During the first fortnight of the Battle of the Somme, the French ...

... During the first fortnight of the Battle of the Somme, the French Verdun Army was still heavily engaged with the enemy on its own front, while thenr Sixth and Tenth Armies were advancing bounds on both bank? of the Somme. was the great revelation of the ...

... Red Fleece, bv W. L. Comfort; and Dogs War, Frances Burmester. Other books be published by that firm are The Battles of the Somme, by W. Philip Gibb; Outposts of fhe Fleet. by E. Noble; and verse, entitled '' The Broken Wing, by the Indian poetess ...

... Commander of the Legion of by our French Allies in recognition good work done by the ting's Liverpool Brigade commanded the Battle of the Somme. ...

... strongly-fortified positions. These successes are a fitting sequel the fine achievements of my Army last year in the Battle of the Somme, reflect great credit on those responsible for drawing up the plans this campaign. R.I. SIR D. HAIC'S REPLY, behalf ...

... them. When we recall how stoutly and with what sanguinary consequences every inch of ground was contested in the great Battle of the Somme, the question naturally arises—What can it mean ? This is a case in which we must needs adopt the Asquithian formula ...

... practices and volunteered for service the front, and m France proved himself so able and so fearless that he the D.8.0 the battle of tho Somme In the home leave* a blank which never can filled, ond our sympathy goes out as congregation to-day his aged father ...

... French airmen and gunners for the other three. The reoord of these two days is without a parallel since at anyrate the battle of the Somme beuan July 1, 1916. Eighteen machines—ll German and 7 British—came involuntarily to earth on July 2, and on February ...

... to J,]** first volume. He now relates the ex- ; of the Canadian forces the West- t '■fcrit from the second Battle Yprcs e Battle of the Somme, and the narshows that the valour and constancy who had sustained such heavy from the dastardly gas attack at ...

... Aber deen, died the Auxiliary Hospital, f errors, Northamptonshire, on Tuesday. was wounded on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, and had been in hospital since. ij&nc.-tdrporal Howie served ui.piem.ceship as a warehouseman with Messrs Milno and ...

... ie not yet. but to- •_ 6)>leixi;d prophecy of to-morrov . Lost Opportunity on the Somme. It is open secret in well-informed military circles that the Battle of the Somme ail resulted in the rolling up of the German ir ' _ one two places during the offensive ...