... : men ^ -dead 593 , - wounded and musing 1 S 32 . ( p . 9 . ) Ax account is given of the French , operations in the Battle of the Somme . ( p . 7 . ) It is ofEcially announced thai representatives of the Allied Governments held conferences in London oa ...

... would have been bad policy to withdraw machines from the battle fronts for the bombing of German towns . We could have done it , General Smuts said yesterday , at any time since the Battle of the Somme , our supremacy in the air having been definitely and ...

... they may find themselves compelled to abandon an essential part of their scheme of resistance , and , as after the battle of the Somme , fall back on another defensive , zone—if they can discover it . The difference here is that retreat would ht fraught ...

... carefully balanced consideration of military questions . The air service is [ a case in point . Last summer , during the battle of the Somme , the British , airmen , entirely dominated their element . The Germans have re-established their efficiency ; the two ...

... because the enemy holds ridge and wood commanding it. appears that for distinction the recent push, or four days' battle, called the Battle of Road, for though the southern boundary of the Fourth Array* action has been in the neighbourhood |of that road ...

... various Etages of the grcax battle on the Somme . The officer , who is a native of Aberdeen , said : — ' Highland regiments have got plenty of praise for their part in the Somme fighting , but no one seems to ' have thought it worth -while to put in a vrctfd ...

... two rivers , and the scarred hill $ idea on the flanks , the Hun ie desperately engaged in losing the second and last battle p £ the Somme . Villages are slipping from his grasp , and some ol his best divisions are ¦ disappearing piece meal in a vain effort ...

... there was the shout of battle ; on the Somme there was a great silence ; but God was there in that awful front in the north ; in the shout of victorious troops breaking the line on the ridges ; and in the great vast silences of the Somme , where their beloved ...

... ) , and shortly afterwards he received a commission as 2 nd Lieiit . in the Boyal Engineers . He was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1915 and sent home , but on recovering he returned t o France and is hot ? with his company in ^ Belgium , having ...

... achievements in the present war . They fought superbly in tie fust and third battles of Ypres , at Fcstubert , at Loos , at Arras , and on the Somme . At the first battle of Ypres , where the English Army , incredibly inferior in numbers , guns , and ...

... infantry attack . Sir Edward Carson was also afforded an . opportunity , of motoring through the country where the Battle of the Somme was fought last year , and he studied with deep interest the - ground over which the Ulster Division made their historic ...

... should not muckier the Battle of Loris a failure. It. Scotland they would take a great interest in it because the brunt of the fighting had been by Scottish soldi e r s . (Applau se .) In the first place. one reason why the battle was not a failure—although ...