... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ALL STILL GOING WELL. Further Progresson British Front ...

... BY PRIVATE WIRE. Belfatt News-Letter” Office. 170, Fleet Street, E.C. Wednesday Morning, S o'olook. BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ULSTER DIVISION’S HEROISM. A Striking Tribute. ...

... a distance of some seven miles. The reason for what may be called the lack incident is simple. The battle of the Somme north of the river has undergone a change in the character of the fighting. It has become more concentrated. Several correspondents ...

... CASH OR CREDIT. KILLED IN ACTION. OTHER—Killed the battle of the Somme, i-eoffrey S Cather, aged 25 years, Lieut, and Roxal Irish Fusiliers (Ulster Divi- son die late R. G. Cather, of Limpsfield, Cather, 26, Priory Road. Wiast \U.tipstead, NAV. action ...

... PORTADOWN. In battle of the Somme, Portadown suffered heavily. Up to the present 30 men are reported to have been killed or died wounds, 80 wounded, and 3 missing, making a total of 113. Amongst the latest casualties notified are the following:— Best ...

... ~i munitions adequate for unprecedented bombard ment. British organisation is inferior to that of no other army. The battle of the Somme proved our volunteer soldiers worthy of splendid traditions.” Asked whether this was the big push the war. Lord Derby ...

... Inevitable End; Chased by the Furies. The leading article “Reconstruction, and there is an illustrated page on the Battle of the Somme. Mr. Hilaire Belloc, who is on the Italian front, writes on “The Final Phase. and gives general review the situation ...

... the battle of the Somme continues to be satisfactory. Up to date the British have taken over 6,000 prisoners and the French more than 0,000. Heavy fighting continued throughout Tuesday night on the British front in the region of the Ancre and Somme. Two ...

... in Longueval and Delville Wood. have this, however, to strengthen our confidence, that since the opening stages the battle of rhe Somme our .troops have never so far lost ground which they have captured and consolidated, and they have consolidated all ...

... way the balance of the battle. What it means is that in close hand-to-hand fighting our troops are maintaining, undiminished the steady, relentless pressure upon the enemy's position which has characterised the battle of the Somme from the outset, and that ...

... both flanks the Ulstermen were at the mercy of tne enemy, and had to retire to the third line of trenches. When the battle of the Somme takes its place in the story of this great war the deeds which the Ulster Division accomplished on Saturday last will ...

... to have been without result. When the battle opened on Thursday morning it was the Germans who attacked, not the British, and the line was Bazentin-Longucval-Delville Wood. This change in the definition of the battle line is full of significance. It is ...