... DESPERATE STRUGGLE. “SY WE EVACUATED NORTH OF i WOOD. Parts, Saturday. wh Pty day of the battle in the Somme tht no material modification of the front. south of the Somme the the positions captured ye made two at first on the British front and on the French ...

... features the story of the tuking of Le Sars is very similar to earlier stories of the carrying of other villages in the battle of the Somme. It is the old glorious tale of the domination of British uoggeuness, courage, and endurance over concealed machine-guns ...

... AVIATORS PREVENT ENEMY Brittsh HeapQuaRTERS IN THE FIELD, France, 8 July (received to-day). When the history of the battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true perspective, I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant facts in this whole ...

... Instead of decreasing, the gigantic battle on the Somme has increased in force It is the strongest attempt to break through that the enemy has made since the beginning of his great offen- sive. That ‘in euch a battle against such tremendously superior ...

... . Where did we go in? Oh. near Alhat. Our objective was Marys Court, or some such plaee. ’ (it is evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh house- hold words lo our war vocabulary. is a veteran this * Wipers ” by time; ** Plug-street ...

... similar ceries of attacks have carri the French io « uew line 200 yards east of Maurepas. Along a large part of the battle front between Somme and the Ancre the Allied troop: now holding a line that was Germer on 15 August; and at no oint in that front do ...

... the real conditions. The battle of the Somme has developed considerably since 2 August, the date of Wiegand’s despatch, but the ceerespon- dent’s wireless message published to-da} say: “‘ To-day, 2 August, the battle of the Somme has pas:ed high-water mark ...

... letters, tonfirms the belief that the Germans have suffered enormously in the Somme battle. A soldier, writin from Estrees on 1 September, says: rom 12 to 27 August we were on the Somme, and my regiment had 1,500 casualties. A man of the 9th Company 10th Bavarian ...

... OUEEN SEES SOMME FILMS The Press Bureau is informed that Captain E. Distin Maddick had the honour of submittiz to ueen Alexandra this week the o cial Ww ar Office films of the battle of the Somme, in which her Majesty was deeply interested. ueen Alexandra ...

... woman in England who would not do anything she could to help the men at the front They had fought a battle before the battle of the Somme. They had battled to raise the working condi- tions. The women must see to it that while the men were away that that ...

... ‘oar 180 Worvemie:s, sou of ee Foad, wick, 8, Rosefie.d- in action, Pean, of the i ving died fro-s Warvicks, 18 Ms ha battle of the Somme. His home was at Wells-street, Private Herbert Bornes, 8th Sen'h Sta ffor re Regiment, was in action ys the ning of ...

... THE GERMAN LOSSES Assuming, according to one estimate, that there were-122 Gernian divisions dur- ing the battle of the Somme, the French and-ourselves had defeated something like a half the total German forces, or some- thing like a million men in all ...