... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. FIRST PHASE OF THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. ...

... LEAVING ONE HELL TO FIND ANOTHER. Paris. Tues d ay. Inteniewed by the Petit l'arisien, one of the wounded in the battle of the Somme sacs the hea% artillery pulverised the German trench shelters, and it seemed at times that the German guns were not ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...

... PERIOD CI CALM. SIXTH MONTH OF BATTLE OF VERDUN. SOMME OPERATIONS. THE TACTICS OF A PRUDENT ADVANCE. Paris, Saturday. Reviewing yesterday's fighting, an expert French commentator says : The Germans, as was to be expected, counterattacked on Thursday et ...

... TAKEN WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE LIFE. (French Paris, Wednesday. A semi-official statement issued last night says : The battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent storm to-day, is proceeding with brilliant success for our arms. The advance of the ...

... SOMME ENEMY'S FUTILE EFFORTS TO REGAIN GROUND. ALLIES' PRUDENCE. NO RUSH FOR PREMATURE SVCCESSES. (Franck Ssati-OfficieL) Pari,, I. rigidly. semi-tiicia I statem znt i -.surd last night says : The first stage of the battle of the Somme has come to an ...

... square kilometres on the Somme has brought the English and the French nothing at all. for the German front on the Somme is elastic ; Verdun, however, cannot be moved back. But the point is that in our present advance at the Somme we continued to make headway ...

... Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province, India, was reported missing, and, it is feared, killed, in the battle of the Somme on July 1. Captain Koos, who was forty-eight years of age, was practising as a solicitor in South Africa at the outbreak ...

... PROVE DECISIVE. (By Oar Military Correspondent.) The capture of Pozieres is one of the most significant events in the battle of the Somme, and may prove decisi‘e. Toth Poziere.s and Longueval command main roads converging upon Bapaume, and the Foureaux Wend ...

... reaching Paris of the magnificent work accomplished by the British troops in the battles which have culminated in the fall of Pozieres. For the second time since the battle of the Somme the Germans, who had brought up considerable reinforcements at the expense ...

... WERE DRIVEN OUT. I:rida (received to-dal. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front. the British, comprising Scottish, South .%frican, and Territorial troops, have driven the fainou. Brandenburgerß ...

... NOTES OF THE DAY. Opinion as to the probable outcome of the battle of the Somme must still halt indecisive. Much has been achieved, and all the correspondents bear testimony to the magnificent courage and persistence with which our men are fighting. But ...