... LONGER A MATTER FOR JOY FORMERLY.” Pams, September 21. The Strassburgcr Post” mournfully remarks: We must not expect the battle of the Somme to cease until the Allies are dbort of munitions, and that contingency has not yet arisen. The war is no longer a matter ...

... of France sends the following account the artillery bombardment on the Somme front:— all the artillery preparations which have cleared the way for the various offensives on the Somme none has been of such extraordinary intensity as the bombardment which ...

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... IMPORTANCE OF THE SOMME BATTLE. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY THE ALLIES. The following telegram has been received from tb© special correspondent erf the British press with the French armies:— Paris, September 27. From an authoritative account of the Battle erf the Somme ...

... elaborately belittles the warning clearly visible in the disconcerting results of the battle of the Somme It was a remarkable performance in its way, his survey of the battle fronts. But his hearers can hardly have failed to observe its omission of the usual ...

... the joining of hands between the British and French armies in one of the most important strategic movements since the battle of the Somme commenced- now well known, the Allies had determined not trv and take Combine during the general advance northward and ...

... positions.—Press Association. THE FRENCH ARMY’S PART ON THE SOMME. FINE THREE MONTHS’ RECORD. French Army Headquarters, September 30. The part played by the French in the three months’ battle on the Somme has amazed and confounded the Germans. It had originally ...

... College, London, last night, on '* The Turning Tide of War,” said, assuming there were 122 German divisions during the battle of the Somme, the French and ourselves had defeated something like half the total German forces, or something like million men in ...

... the Fourth German Corps, thinks the British army is revealed in tho course of a voluminous document dealing with tine battle of the Somme and its lessons, which was captured by our troops. It ■begins paying a tribute to our infantry: The English infantry ...

... to think about is the most successful manner of meeting ottr attacks, One the most important lessons drawn from the battle of the Somme is that under heavy methodical artillery fire the front line should only thinly held, but by reliable men and few machine ...

... have stopped the German army, which was sent in its thousands wipe oat the French. was not until the battle of the Somme commenced July 1 —that great battle which was still going on, which was worked out the well-thought-out plans of car most capable Com ...

... Eobertson's recent speech asking for more men, and to Sir Douglas Haig’s review, which stated that since the opening of the Battle of the Somme July 1 had engaged 38 German divisions, of which 29 had been withdrawn exhausted shattered. This, said Lord Dartmouth ...