THE EVENING NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY «, tflS

... THE EVENING NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY «, tflS. Conditions of Panoe. The new battle of the Somme may come to rival that Verdun in duration and fury, and if it undoubtedly intensify the longing for peace now felt throughout the world by all those who are morally ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Bolton Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1557 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COUNTING THE GAINS

... GAINS. PROBABLE HALT FOR MORE ARTILLERY WORK. . A semi-official statement issued in Paris on Tuesday night says: Tlie battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for oar arms. The advance of the ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1020 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE PUSH PROGRESSES

... unknown point ; but once that point is reached events may travel with dramatic swiftness. One interesting feature of the battle of the Somme has been the return in some portions of the area—only a very temporary return, it is true—to the conditions of field ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE DASH OF THE FRENCH ARMY. RESULT Or FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING. (By H. Warner Allen.) An officer who witnessed the Battle the gives the following account of the first day's operations. The result of the first day's fighting was that ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 840 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE FRENCH WEDGE

... Prees s Paris correspondent some Inbereeting the German point of view as lights on gathered from prisoners taken in the battle of the Somme. He saul the Germans, more particulacly the officers, were not overtly dis- heartened at the succesa of the first advance ...

ENEMY DILEMMA

... Russians in In the battle of the Somme the British are opposed with the same desperation, bat, in the wotds of Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, have béen able to make ‘‘ further progress at certain im- portant points.” From the Ancre to the Semme the battle raged at close ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 805 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IN BATTLE OF THE SOMME : 15,500 PRISONERS

... IN BATTLE OF THE SOMME : 15,500 PRISONERS. BIGGEST BATTLE OF WESTERN WAR. STEADY PROGRESS OF ALLIES’ PLANS. HOW THE PRUSSIANS SURRENDERED- F.A, Special Correspondent.) Press Camp, France. July 4. Already lias the struggle that is raging north and south ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2647 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

siIESS CONTINUES,

... French progress South of the Somme. sTRONC RUSSIAN PRESSURE. Th., boil( the Somme goes well for the iine ral Haig reports slight progress, and are able to state that the whole 'event' German line on the battle uth the Somme—a distance of rout Loc.. their ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 965 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THIS MORNING'S NEWS

... THIS MORNING'S NEWS Pressure on Germany is increasing from East and West. The battle of the Somme continues to go in favour of the British and French forces, while on the Russian front an attack has been launched on I-lindenburg's forces on a front of ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1916
Newspaper: Loughborough Echo
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 291 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE TRANSFORMATION SCENE

... such versions of the various phases of the war the German Government desire to see made public. His dispatches on the Battle of the Somme make especially interesting reading, not for what they say but for what they leave out. He is eloquent the vast number ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1916
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KITCHENER'S ARMY ADVANCES STRONG OFFENSIVE BY BRITISH AND FRENCH. Stifle the Seasina.—While at home speculation ..

... preparing for heavy blow at the German line in the West. This was launched last Satordsai and develop - NI into the violent Battle of the Somme. For a week previously the British told curtly of activity and heavy bombardment• initiated by us, and a num b er ot ...

THE LANCASHIRE DAILY POST. FRIDAY. JULY 7, 1916. Cur cur cheap peeped charges first stage ended. russias moves. ..

... tremondoua offensive UKUAiy, July otn. : =ls—l -. ? .h. r,„ i™,. rr , t.., ~..11,,, bu-,. 8 9 The first stage of the battle of the Somme the German trenches. T)n the Dvina from and the Dviash posi. E.,k ,rt« 1,1,1 oiirneril .111 ta nranlrf .«rt. Jl CT>m ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1916
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4308 | Page: 2 | Tags: none