... %Ks, Martinis ant Nu*. DI/ann. On the 22rd inst., killed at the battle of the Somme, George William Giles, of the Bth Royal Berke Regt., second son of Alfred Gilee, Compton Terrace, Wallingford, aged 24 years. Oa the 26th inst., at sois, wife of Mr. Henry ...

... JATTLE OF THE SOMME. FULL HALF OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH. The story of the' Battle of the Somme, which lasted from July 1 to November 18, is •told in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch, which tills sixteen pages of the London Gazette ...

... push in the West, by maa.iug thousands of troops there. and wilding out v:ut quantities of anununition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the fitvt day the German front Iras broken on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mamets were ...

... the best the commissariat can run to is to supply the men with seltzer water, a poor refreshment in the midst of a battle like the Somme. But there still seems to be any quantity of marmalade, which is not the same article we eat in England, but a kind ...

... garden of Fulham Palace., Princo George of Saxony, in dreeribing re.,nt review by the Koimer of German• fr.:.h from the battle of the Somme. Nive: They were mere ekek•tonr of compauic•e, battalion., led by calif 3111 N. eome C Ol / 1 1141 nie4 kd by lieutenants ...

... terrifyii.g effect. It came from as itsproied. variety a flame project9r machine rccommendA by General von Arnim daring the battle of th:. Somme. Men he saw the projection of burning cil bursting out in great waves of liquid fire. A battalion of men wenkl be charred ...

... in the Battle of the Somme wee forced upon them only by actual defeat ea the ground. This is • strategical retreat, unsling • raw phase of weakness in their deferment eoeditions. It, hew not come to our generals as • surprise. After the Battle of Boom ...

... steadily and surely from day to day, is more significant than any separate incursion through the German Front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...

... call this show a battle, still less a victory.' He was a St. Paul's School boy, so he told me. I heard that he died that evening at Pliehrilliers, unthanked by Parliament. The Battle of the Somme has been one of the greatest battles in the history of ...

... the country and getting on with the war. They may console themselves with the reflection that the film showing the Battle of the Somme is vastly more interesting. It is, indeed. a wonderful production. It. enables the ordinary person to see war as it ...

... with similar results. Each of these advances is not so much a battle as a part of one tremendous baltle which the best judps are confident will have greater results than the Battle of the Somme. Germany. as General &mite said the other day, is beaten. and ...

... by the exhaustion of his man-power. How this proem has been going on may be seen in Sir Douglas Haig's story of the Battle of the Somme, in which he says that half the German Army has been engaged, and defeated with enormous loss. Germany has made the ...