... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. GERMANS DECLARE IT IS ENDED. AD Amsterdam message says: The German papers are being instructed to declare that lie Somme battle is really finished. They state tint the German positions are stronger sow Qom they we-re on July Ist ...

... SPECIAL PRAISE FOR TROOPS. An official account from the British Headquarters of the great battle on the Somme on Friday and Saturday last describes it u probably the most effective blow which has yet been dealt to the enemy by British troops. The damage ...

... and before long the battle of the Somme will be succeeded by the battle of the Meuse, and in due course the battle of the Meuse by the battle of the Rhine. The defeat of the Germans during the three months' ...

... Private Brooker had a brilliant military record. At the battle of the Somme in July last year he was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the field, and during the Massless Ridge battle he was awarded a bar to that distinction. On July 31st, 1917 ...

... equipment to attack it without capturing it. In the first eighteen days of the battle of the Somme we captured 11,000 prisoners and fifty-four guns. In the first eighteen days of the battle of Arras we captured 18,000 prisoners and :00 gulls. We gained four times ...

... Tuesday was so much the more important that it is certain to stand as one of the most decisive in the annals of the great battle of the Somme. On that day the combined offensive of the Franco- British troops ended in the enemy losing both Thiepval and Combles ...

... have been forced to learn by bitter and costly experience, especially since the first of last i July, when the great battle of the Somme commenced. lu that fierce contest our men made splendid progress to the south of the Ancro, passing rapidly into the ...

... VIERCE BATTLES ON THE SOMME. SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS. The long-expected British and Trench often he on the Western trout has begun, after a stupendous boalsardsasat lasting over • week. The attack began at 1.10 on Saturday morning worth and south of the ...

... LETTERS BY A RADICAL. Warne Tllll WM'S RUCUDALI LoaDos. Thursday. Everybody one meets in these days is an optimist. The battle on the Somme—it is a Waterloo every day. The Trentino campaign —the Italians are holding I don't know how many square miles of Austrian ...

... WORK IN THII FIGHTING LINE. Since then he bad had two winters with the troops and was in the battles of the Somme. Vimy. and Lent, and the beginningof the battle now going on. Ile had tried to live their life. share their trouble=, and risks. and enjoyments ...

... bullets, repair. ing the wire by which he sends bark hir. direrboas lo the guns. Here is an instance from one of our battles on the Somme. The wire to one observation post, over a peculiarly dangerous piece of open, was being cut up by shell continuously ...