... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. VIVID DESCRIPTION OF GREAT ADVANCE SPIRIT OF TROOPS. THEY GO WHISTLING INTO THE FIGHT. -- SHELL SHOWERS. ...

... HEADQUARTERS, Saturday. At half-pat aevsn this morning a great battle began a front of about 25 miles above and on both banks of the Somme. Perhaps it will be known in history sa the Battle of the Somme. _ .. It followed, as you know, on five days of intense ...

... . Is. 8011-0• LO ' 10 .1 d Gereesd 2106. dopla. - lines. 41110C1ty.711nee News, London. THE PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE. The battle of the Somme has DOW been in progress four days, but it is still only in ita opening stages. On the British front we are retaining ...

... days (a quiet only in the sense that the activities are of • local character) we can regard the first stage of the battle of the Somme as definitely closed. You already know the result. On the north, as far down SA Aveluy below Athuilk, we hold two slices ...

... GERMANY AND NEUTRALS. Von Wiegand comments on the lack of details in the Berlin official statements regarding the battle of the Somme. Be !says tha German General Staff has shown no disposition to lift the veil, and is evidently indifferent to opinion ...

... proceeding steadily surely from day to day, is more aignificant than any repent* incur.ion through the German front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisaties to be markedly superior. in one eery important respect, to that of ...

... againet which they have to tend would be impregnable to valour lees ardent. If, as is now practically certain, ! the battle of the Somme euds in the derisive defeat of the Germans, the war is none the lees over, though the end may yet be delayed. The fable ...

... morning's paper s rssi t, it clear that Sir Victor llorsley died i s true a soldier's death as any Kitchen. Army man in the Battle of the Somme. Ile went of his own free will from a krtable billet in Ernie to Meonotamia, knowing the terrible oonditiona there, ...

... authoritative account of the brit phases of the battle of the Somme from July 1 to July 10 will be published in the French papers to-morrow. The French battle (mot on July 1. hots north and smith of the Somme. was about ten miles long. and the French troop% ...

... in this line, our establishment on which will probably be regarded historically as closing the second phase of the battle of the Somme. ...

... from the Ypres neighbourhood for this battle. In my dispatch of yesterday I sug§ested that the capture of Paz teres, when complete, would logically be regarded as concluding the second phase o, the Battle of the Somme. We are now well established on the ...

... searc h es every . • labour, the hardest form of warfaro yvt invented. From the point of view of German resistance the battle of the Somme has reached a most critical p: sae, for there is ground for the belief that unless within a very short period they ...