... were in the air the whole day. FRENCH ACCOUNT. STORY OF THE BATTLE. GROUND LOST AND WON BY BRITISH ARMY. SOUTH STAFFORDS’ DISTINCTION The bombardment which was the essential preliminary the battle proper began six o’clock on Saturday mornsng, but the Press ...

... tha battle of the Somme, if it to be successful for the Allies, must a long and alow affair. Loos and Neuve the British did brilliantly the beginning, and then failed to hold much of the captured ground when the enemy counter-attacked. the Somme both ...

... . Where did we go in? Oh, near Albat. Our objective was Mary's Court, or some such place.” (It is evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words our war vocabulary. Wipers,” Plugsheet,” Dooloo,” and ” Armintears*’ are ...

... TRONES. • GERMANS REGAIN SOME GROUND. RAIDS IN FLANDERS. HOW THE WORCESTERS MARCHED TO BATTLE. LOfficial Photograph ciiculaled by and GensralJ AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE bTSmINGHAM DAILY MAIL. WEDNESDAY. JULY 12. 1916 FIRST CLASS. HOW THE GERMAN PRISONERS ...

... KAISER ON THE SOMME FRONT. SEVEN GERMAN GENERALS DISMISSED. Amsterdam, Monday. According to official telegram from Berlin the Kaiser is present in the battle sector the Somme, where has received reports from the Commander-inchief of the army, conversed ...

... July Lamps on vehlolos llgfitotf 8.42 Restricted lighting BATTLE RESUMED. “INTENSE” STRUGGLE ON BRITISH FRONT. TERRITORIALS & ANZACS ENTER POZIERES. GERMANS STILL IN LONGUEVAL. The battle of the Somme was yesterday on the British front from Pozieret to Guillemont ...

... programme included Clara Covardale’s Nine Dainty Dot* and Lawler Quintette, instrumental ista. official war film, the battle of the Somme, is also in the programme. At the Imperial Picture Palace, Moseley Road, Rosemary,” attractive film, Stevens, ‘was tbe ...

... patrol* in the neighbourhood of yesterday. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front the Central News Psria correspondent) the British, oomprwing Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, ...

... RHAPSODICAL LETTER BY LLOYD GEORGE. A private exhibition of official films of the battle the Somme the Theatre, London, to-day, was attended many members of the Army General Staff. Mx. Lloyd George sent the following letter: You are invited here to-day ...

... VICTORIA CROSS WAS WON. SAID ST. QUENTIN STATION, Pabib, Thursday. A semi-official statement says:— In the course of the battle of the Somme British aviators contributed brilliantly to the success of the Allies methodical action and the great prowees of her ...

... desperately, but was finally defeated. GERMAN LOSSES OR THE SOMME. Herr Erich yon Salzmann, military critic of the Voasische Zertung,’* writing in the issue that journal on tbe subject battle of the Somme, mad* the remarkable admission, my* the “Morning Post: ...

... dignity my answer is that if cinematograpb theatre is fit and proper place to show such * grand and solemn film the Battle of the Somme, it undignified to show Cabinet meeting in tbe same place. The result of the stoppage will that deserving charity will ...