... 181 of their excellent war maps of the tern On the usual half-inch scale and beautifully printed, it carrirs thr battle-line from Somme to tioiscoa•. The topographiPal details are based on the French Go‘ernrnent surveys. z aim= re THE WES*I GAZETTE. ...

... NOTES OF THE DAY. Opinion as to the probable outcome of the battle of the Somme must still halt indecisive. Much has been achieved, and all the correspondents bear testimony to the magnificent courage and persistence with which our men are fighting. But ...

... LEAVING ONE HELL TO FIND ANOTHER. Paris. Tues d ay. Inteniewed by the Petit l'arisien, one of the wounded in the battle of the Somme sacs the hea% artillery pulverised the German trench shelters, and it seemed at times that the German guns were not ...

... TAKEN WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE LIFE. (French Paris, Wednesday. A semi-official statement issued last night says : The battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for our arms. The advance of the ...

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. FIRST PHASE OF THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. ...

... SOMME ENEMY'S FUTILE EFFORTS TO REGAIN GROUND. ALLIES' PRUDENCE. NO RUSH FOR PREMATURE SVCCESSES. (Franck Ssati-OfficieL) Pari,, I. rigidly. semi-tiicia I statem znt i -.surd last night says : The first stage of the battle of the Somme has come to an ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...

... MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.) An officer of the Royal Engineers, one of the wounded, in giving his impressions of . the battle of the Somme, is reported to have said a very significant thing. Knowing precisely what he has to do, every man is busy doing it ...

... and entanglements, will prove to have been thrown away. Not a British soldier and not a Frenchman has fallen in the battle on the Somme whose life has not purchased for his country an equivalent of inerairnab!e worth. The prospects of the war are not the ...

... Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province, India, was reported missing, and, it is feared, killed, in the battle of the Somme on July 1. Captain Koos, who was forty-eight years of age, was practising as a solicitor in South Africa at the outbreak ...

... Indeed, in Germany said. But the battle of the Somme has proved that lines Germans can no more resist the onset of efficient troops than I by Austrians. Nay, the demonstration is much more The positions attacked on the Somme were not merely among the strongest ...

... square kilometres on the Somme has brought the English and the French nothing at all. for the German front on the Somme is elastic ; Verdun, however, cannot be moved back. But the point is that in our present advance at the Somme we continued to make headway ...