... Reuter's correspondent some interesting side!ight,. on the German i.oii t of view as gathered from prisoners taken in the battle of the Somme. He slid that the Germins, more pap ticularly the officers, were overtly disheartened at the success of the first advance ...

... THE GREATEST BATTLE OF THE WESTERN WAR. Telegraphing on the 4th July the same Correspondent says : Already has the struggle that is raging north and south of the Somme assumed the proportions, in point of numbers engaged, of the biggest battle of the war ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Renter's Special Correspondent at the Press Capp in France, telegraphing under date July 3, says: ' , It is extraordinary with what comparative immunity one may move about various spots of the battlefield which have been the centres ...

... obliged to surrender. It is now possible to give some details of the troops facing the French at the beginning of the battle of the Somme. On a front representing nine miles, or rather more than a third of the Allied front, there were more than twenty-seven ...

... organization in Europe. It has been said that Neuve Chapelle and Loos were the initiation of the new British armies; the battle of the Somme has supremely proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of the most splendid British traditions. In reply to a question ...

... OUR SPLENDID AIRMEN. THEIR SHiliE IN TUE OFFENSIVE. The same Correspondent telegraphs : 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 facets in this whole ...

... A PATRIOTIC FAMILY. Among the heroes who have fallen durring the Battle of the Somme, four Officers, two brothers and two of their cousins were killed on the same day—on July 1. They are Captain E. S. Ayre, Newfoundland Regiment; Captain B. P. Ayre, Norfolk ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. GERMANS NOT DEMORALIZED. Paris, 24 July. From the number of prisoners captured up to now in the Battle of the Somme, and the reports of combatants and eye-witnesses, some people have deduced that the German soldiers are commencing ...

... correspondent of the Vos , ische Zeitung at the German Headquarters sums up the principal events of the first month of the battle of the Somme. Amongst other things he says We Germans knew that there was and is in front of us a colossal British Army, well-equipped ...

... perhaps in order to spare the troops excessive fatigue during the present heat, have accasioned a brief lull in the Battle of the Somme on the part of the British. It is however believed that this will be of short duration. Meantime it is well to note ...

... FORTNIGHT. DETAILS OF THE SOMME ADVANCE. (From Mr. H. Warner Allen, Special Correspondent of the Brltish Press with the French Armies.) Paris, July 20. An authoritative account of the first phases of the Battle of the Somme from July 1 to July 10 will ...

... whether the new jump forward of the British to the north of Pozieres marked the inaugurition of a new phase of the Battle of the Somme or was simply an intermediary operation. The Times' correspondent at the front inclines to the belief that the fresh ...