... STRIKING A BALANCE A Breathing-Space THE Battle of the Somme has reached the familiar stage at which each side chivalrously concerns itself with the enormous losses of the other. That is usually a stage where offensive aspirations modify themselves in ...

... 48) — The Irish Settlement (p. 49)—Mr. Lloyd George and the War Office 4. 49)—Crisis in the Isle of Man (p. 49) The Battle of the Somme (p. 50)- - Knocking• Out Austria (p. 51) Commissions for Writers (p. 51)—Prize Money Problems (p. 52)—The Director ...

... in the military representation seems urgently called for in this case. The most impressive thing in the story of the battle on the Somme, so far as it has yet been told, is the universal testimony to the heroic pluck of our infantry in the face of tremendous ...

... vexatiousness. Where did we Wrtn: Oh, near .4.lbat. Our objective was Mary's or some such place. • (It is evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to war vo_ . _ . . cabutary. Wipers, Plugsheet, Booloo, and Armintears ...

... see that the Unionist War Committee is taking an active interest in Mesopotamia. The absorbing interest of the great battles on the Somme and at Verdun, and of the Russian oilensives, should not lead us to forget that we have a large force of British and ...

... ND COUSINS KILLED. A notable instance of family patriotism is disclosed in the lists of officers who fallen in the battle of the Somme. The officers killed whose names published officially to-day include Captain IC. S. Ayre. Second Lieutenant O. W. Aye ...

... who have sided wounded men, the nick, the families of killed or those driven from their homes by invasion. During the battle of the Somme _ north countryman who has just, been invalided home fired point-blank at a German in charge of a machine-gun, but the ...

... MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.) An officer of the Royal Engineers, one of the wounded, in giving his impressions of . the battle of the Somme, is reported to have said a very significant thing. Knowing precisely what he has to do, every man is busy doing it ...

... and entanglements, will prove to have been thrown away. Not a British soldier and not a Frenchman has fallen in the battle on the Somme whose life has not purchased for his country an equivalent of inerairnab!e worth. The prospects of the war are not the ...

... great naval battle and the beginning of the present push. Now it has been completely reversed. The claim to a victory in the battle of Jutland was a conscious and deliberate lie, and the accounts given by the Germans of the battle of the Somme must obviously ...

... Prospects on 'the Somme. The storming of the village of Contalmaison on Tuesday night enabled Sea Hato, in a bulletin published on Wednesday, to review the progress made since the great offensive began in the region of the Somme. On a front of eight miles ...

... son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ide, The Crescent, Golders Green, and late of Wanstead, age 23. INGRAM.—On July Ist, at the Battle of the Somme, in France, Arthur Edward Ingram, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ingram, of 3, St. Andrew's Villas Primrose Road ...