... “Old Soldier” complains that at a London anems show the following was thrown on the screen : We are not Showing the Battle of the Somme, This is a Place of Amusement, Not a Chambor of Horrors. My son (he continues) was wounded at Tluepra!, end these “ ...

... THE GREAT PUSH. NEW PICTORIAL WORK ON THE BATTLE OP THE SOMME. Intense interest has been taken in the War Office films the Battle of the Somme, and now, under the title of Sir Douglas Haig's Great Push, Messrs. Hutchinson and Co., of London, publish ...

... of modern armies and modern battles. To these of little faith—and indeed to all who desire to follow the present titanic struggle with some measure of instructed judgment—may be commended the study the Battle of the Somme. In the numbers of the combatants ...

... largo attendance on Saturday evening. Lieut. A. L. C. Hamilton, of the Black Watch Regiment, who has been through the battle of the Somme, presided, and gave some mteratting incidents of his experiences. in glowing terms the conduct of the soldiers and expressed ...

... SOMMEF FILM HERO ID N TIFIED In tho official film of the Battle of the Somme a British soldier is shown carrying a badly-wounded soldier to safety, and he is described as “an unknown hero who rescued twenty wounded men.” That soldier is Triver Tom Spencer ...

... GREAT BRITISH ADVANCE dhe British Army secured one of the greatest successes yet achieved the Battle ...

... ON THE SOMME The battle of the Somme proceeds with deliberation. The Germane thought th Allies wo l M hare tired of it before j but it jfoes from day to day, and very day sec® a bit won here and another bit twined there, and by the end of the week theee ...

... STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE In the great battle of the Somme our men have been fighting their way uphill most of the time, until Saturday they got to the crest of the ridge north of Pozieres. This ridge is most important, because the effects of ...

... co ON T When “The Battle of the Somme” was shown for the last time at the Scala Theatre, London, on day, the samo filin had been through tho projecting machine 250 The run is the longest known in the history of films, and proves that one copy will last ...

... was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres, 11th May, 1915. aged years and that the rigfit panel: ?Also of Harold William Cottrell. Se'.-Lieut.. S, Lancashire Kegt., who was killed in action the Battle of the Somme, September, 1916, aged 18 years: ...

... about the beginning the year. 335 lives being lost. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. events o! importance were report® I on the Somme Front yesterday 'ternoon. The Germans admit the loss south ot the Somme of the villages of Ablaincourt and Pressoirc, raptured ...

... leaves no children. that the great now begun ehould. for histori It is suggested ‘al purposes, be described as the “ Battle of the Somme.” The General Manager of the Leeds Gas Works re- There is a marked lull in theatrical activ ity in ports that there ...