... greatest pressure of the enemy is against our line in those desolate tracts of Picardy which the retreated after the battles of the Somme. Rare neither his tactical nor territorial gains can be of much value. Consequently it would appear that spectacular ...

... the German rush to the Channel ports in the two great battles of Ypres. To Douglas it was left to weld together the new Divisions then pouring out to Prelim and to prove in the battles of the Somme and of the Ancre that the citisen levies ot llnglend could ...