... the battle of were not a fourth of those sulked by the Division on the opening day of the battle of the Somme (July lit, 1916). The proportion of deaths in esti= also very much smaller. Oat of the airmen of the Division who took part ia the battle of ...

... determination to get a bit of their own back. A revelation which is both gratifying and surprising is that ever aims the battle of the Somme we have had • margin of air-forces whirls we could have employed, had we wished, in bombing centres, and that we have ...

... said. think that we hail hien without means of carrying acrial w•tfare- into the enemy's country, f..r rSer since the battle of the Somme have possessed • clear military supremacy in the air. But we felt that. we would rather prepare for an air offensive ...

... troops on the , Somme last year. Their hareem i. now bearing !fruit. Already in the autumn of 1916 the German commander. had reeved that their Army on the Somme tau staggering. toil could not endure another such colossal hammering on the Somme as it underwent ...

... point; but now that we got the in it may not be inopportune to any that what to now happening I. the result of the battles of the Somme, in which our euccesses were greater than we realised at time, culminating as it did in the retreat of the enemy, not ...

... in the autumn of 1916 the German commander. had reclined that their Ammo on the Somme was already staggering, and could not endure another mat colossal hammering on the Somme as it underwent trot summer. The ground that could not be held in 1916 was even ...

... French Tailor, 11l Stephen'. Green, 4 Beautiful Selection of French Materials. THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME. I J Those who have not read Mr. Philip Cibbs's articles on the Somme fighting as they appeared in the Press have now the opportunity of reading them ...