... retire to shorter and more conveniently defensive ones. Both eteps are fraught with danger, and the enemy knows it. The Battle of the Somme, which is still proceeding, has shown that the Gex-man lines can be breached, and that not even the most thorough p ...

... Ecclosall Hall r..ad, has been wounded. Driver J. T. Webster (R.F.A.), 9, Edgedale road, is among those wounded the battle of the Somme. is at present lying in hospital in France with a fractured high caused 'by a high explosive shell killing his horse ...

... outbreak of fhe war worked at Fairbairn’s Wellington Foundry, Leeds, was killed in and five children. action in the battle of the Somme. He leaves a widow Private C, F. Pacey (21), Regiment, has succumbed to a wound i the head inflicted by a Ger- man eniper ...

... was employed at the Middleton Colliery, has been killed action. Two Harrogate officers are among the wounded in the battle of the Somme. Sec.- Lieut. W. J. R. E. Poole has received a severe gunshot wound through the left arm. S*c.-Ll9irt. POOLE. Sec.-Lieut ...

... will be simply misleading. Care is especially necessary when we are dealing with events not completed, such as the Battle of the Somme. Nevertheless it is not amiss to turn back at the present time, as several commentators have done lately, to Grant’s ...

... BRILLIANT CHAPTER OF OUR MILITARY HISTORY. WAR CORRESPONDENT HEADQUARTERS, FRANCE. July Bth. When the history of the battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true perspective I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant facts in this lustrous ...

... British Repulse Counter-Attacks. ARTILLERY BUSY AT LOOS. FRENCH NEARER PERONNE. GREAT RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. BATTLE ON 700 MILE FRONT. fhe battle on the Somme, although hindered by storms, is pro(eeding with brilliant sSuccess. Fierce fighting is proceeding on ...

... Lighting Order. > All the. men who have returned wounded from the great charge, which will pass into history as the Battle of the Somme, speak of lery. Ihe German trenches were blown to dust-heaps, with the bodies of the rntti who held them,’’, says one ...

... French armies, sends message w hich illustrates the dash of the French Colonial infantry. An officer who witnessed the battle of the Somme gives the following account of the first day’s operations : The result of ’the first day’s fighting was that the chosen ...

... THEN. Each Village a Little Field Fortress. Paris, Wednesday. The semi-official statement leaned last night Rays: The battle of the Somme, although hindered by a violent slum today, is proceeding with brilliant success for our arms The at of French troops ...

... official yesterday, much more than any suggested extreme activity along the hole French front. ,\ German Claims. Jn the battle of the Somme, the Germans the usual complete efficacy of counter-attacks. They had capg *d, they said, Trones Wood from the t/ttish ...

... accompanying map from Mr. H. Warner Allen, tho representative of the British Press with the French Army illustrates the Battle of the Somme from July July 10. YOKKSHIEE FARMERS’ UNION Mr, T. Harrison (Marr Hall) presided at the meeting- of the Yorkshire Farmers’ ...