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... GREAT ODDS. FINE GENERALSHIP. (From Our Special Correspondent.) FRENCH HEADQUARTERS, APRIL 10. In the days of the old Battle of the Somme and after, I never passed through Amiens without being struck by the straightness, remarkable even in France, of the ...
... organization in Europe. It has been said that Neuve Chapelle and Loco were the initiation of the new British ariniee • the battle s of the Somme has supremely prove d voluntger soldiers to be worthy of the most splendjd British traditions. In reply to a question ...
... Prospects on 'the Somme. The storming of the village of Contalmaison on Tuesday night enabled Sea Hato, in a bulletin published on Wednesday, to review the progress made since the great offensive began in the region of the Somme. On a front of eight miles ...
... , Captain Charles Craig, the Ulster member, who wee wounded and made prisoner in July, 1916, at the opening of the battle of the Somme, returned to the House of Commons yesterday. and was heartily congratulated by members of all parties on his release ...
... PARIS, JULY 20. An authoritative account of the first phases of the Battle of the Somme from July 1 to July 10 will be published in the French newspapers to-morrow. The semi-official description speaks in the following terms of the union between the French ...
... following official reports relating to the Somme front have been issued in Berlin : SATURDAY.—North rnd south of the Somme the artillery combat continues. _ In the sector of Foureaux Wood-Longueval hand-grenade fighting took place. South-east of Maurepas ...
... CLOSE OF SOMME FLOUTING. FINAL OPERATIONS DESCRIBED IN 'THE TIMES HISTORY. Put lel (Volume XI.) of The History and Biteclopiedis of the War concludes the dory of the Battle of the Somme, being the mirth part devoted to this phase of the _great Frantm-British ...
... in place cd her present Davenport active crew. The Dr DOXITAMM battle cruiser, Capt. F. W. Kennedy, is to be ready to leave on Wednat. day for the Mediterranean to join the Second Battle Cruiser The llgt cruisers Capt. H. T. Buller, and Capt. P.O. Drown ...
... the ridge. which at the Battle of the Somme lay between British and their ultimate objective of Bapauuic. which lies on the lower ground (250 ft. to 500(t.) ; beyond. Peroune. on the other hand, lies in Hos Valley of the Somme to Mit). I The so-called ...
... indirect admission that our enemies for theii part regard the battle of the Somme as fruitlesei.e., that we may consider it as • victory for our el. es. . . We are in the, fourth month of the battle; the front has held, and has steadily consolidated itself ...
... both & road and railway north of the Somme. and 14 miles north by east of St. Georges, • village two miles west of centre. The German lines were up to March. 1917, Peronne. As the result of the battle of the Somme. 3fontdidier. or the main road to B re ...
... set free. In concert with our own troops, the French, as the result of their persistent efforts during and since the Battle of the Somme. have forced the enemy to fall back a distance of several miles on a total front of about 40 miles, and to Isome extent ...