... N WAR SPFCUL. Paris, Wednesday I /r* The French semi official statement issued last | « evening says : | 1. *1 The Battle of the Somme, although hindered i ' by a violent storm today, proceeding with I | |j mi •; Vi\ h' K. ¥ Vf m brilliant success for ...

... persistent inclemency the weather, further notable progress on the Somme yesterday. After the calm of the day before the French troops again went into action the extreme left wing north the Somme, in the sector where occurs our junction with the British forces ...

... the Allies will come out on top in the end, but there is still a lung row to hoe. This morning's news is encouraging. battle of the Somme, the communique issued from General Headquarters in Prance last night says, was fought yesterday with greater fun- than ...

... whole German second position to the south of the Somme now in our power, on front of about ten kilometres. Paris, Wednesday. semi-oflicial statement issued last evening says:— 'Hie battle of the Somme, although hindered by violent storm to-day, is proceeding ...

... To sum up, the battle of the Somme is follow* ing a regular rhythm successive, methodical, prudent advances. LEEDS BUSINESS BATTALION. More Heavy Casualties. The Leeds Business Men's Battalion has suffered very heavily in tho recent .Somme fighting. Besides ...

... the change which had thereby been brought about in the relative positions of the opposing forces. When the battle ol the Somme began the battle line ran roughly north and south. As the result of the first ten days’ fighting the British gained possession ...

... slothful Somme, most sluggish ami, yet from where we behold most picturesque of rivers. As one into its deep and silent pools and watches it swirl and eddy into backwaters where lurks many lusty fish, one forgets all about the battle of the Somme. Our Tommies ...

... in a mood to listen to their praise. The nmulier cf our dead and wounded is too many. But the day will come when the Battle of the Somme will record the most cherished and ',loudest, page of our history. The men and who will live in the coming yea's will ...

... Stage of Oreat Battle Completed. STRUGGLE WHICH WILL LAc,T MONTHS IF NECESSARY. Paris, Friday. The semi-official statement issued last night says:— To-day brought no change in the situation. The first stage of the Battle of the Somme has come to an ...

... now in our hands.” It is, of course, a mere spisode in the battle the Somme, the storming and the capture of this little village. But it is flushed with the grandeur of a hard-won battle, a battle that in any war but this might reckoned of first-class importance ...

... yet in a mood to listen to their praires—the number of our dead and wounded is many. But the day will come when the battle of the Somme will record the most cherished and the proudest page of oar history. Tho‘e who live in the coming years will recall ...

... time and place, added the fact that on the same Twelfth the majority of our citizens were thinking more of the Battle of the Somme than the Battle of the Boyne—and no admirer of the heroism of the latter would find fault. For had we not only just got the ...