... overflowing with admiration of this achievement of /No% Professor Wegener, of the Cologne Gazette, hurried from the battle of the Somme to Ghent in order to inform his paper of the completion of this most noble proof of the way in which the German ad ...

... A French correspondent Bays the mutual bombardment on the vest front is the most violent since the beginning of the battle of the Somme. The cannonading is most intense, not only on bpth banks of the Ancre but also from Loos to Ypres. The duel has now ...

... then the German General Staff feared. Certain divisions, returned to the line this week for the third time since the battle of the Somme began, have rested sufficiently to begin their fresh ordeal in the mud with pronounced activity. Gaps made in their ...

... may not be the last word in German skill and ingenuity. The superiority of the British artillery and aircraft in the battle of the Somme has been admitted with frankness, and it must nct be thought that the enemy will resignedly accept this handicap and ...

... forming a salient, • the rectilinear one of Belloy- A blaincourt- Chaulnes. The British operation is analogous, and the battle of the Somme has widened its base at both wings. THE SUPREME TUG OF WAR. All the belligerants engaged in the mighty struggle that ...

... flanks from Morval to Thiepval. General Haig claims that all three objectives of the battle were achievnd. Any one of these results by itself justified the battle of the Somme,and the attainment of all three amply compensates for the sacrifices of ourselves ...

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL HAIG. ALL OBJECTIVES ATTAINED. THREE PHASES OF THE FIGHTING. ...