... IHE VERDUN FRONT Apart from the reference the* battle on the* Somme*, the French communiques issued during the week-end contained the following; Saturday. 3 p.m. On the from north ol Verdun violent artillery struggle took place*, notably in the* sectors ...

... correspondent at British Headquarters in the Field. France, writee in a despetch dated Saturday When the history of the Battle of the Somme comes to he written in Am true peispeetive, I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant forte in this whole ...

... steadily and surely from day to day, is more significant than any separate incursion through the German Front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...

... on steadily. Yesterday morning the general situation was as follows: The British Headquarters noted that since the Battle o: the Somme began the Germans facing the British had received large reinforcements. The new British positions were strongly attacked ...

... vat the offensive by the British from Thiepial to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the Battle of the Somme can pursue its •ictoriona course it is important that onr advance. which Iris slower in the British sector sad ieedicr ...

... CAPTAIN RAYMOND LTTTEN Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed on Saturday,' July Ist, the battle of the Somme, when leading his company into action. He was the only son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs. Litten, of 21, Pembridge ...

... (Newbury). Pte. F. Sawyer. 16'19 ?Newbury). Pte. D. H. Thomas. 18010 (Neath). WAR ITEMS. NEW WORDS. It is emdant that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war vocabulary. Wipars, Plugerest, Booloo, and ♦rmintears ...

... were the battles of the. Marne and the Aisne, followed by a struggle on the Yser. Now is raging the battle of the Somme, which may last for sorne weeks.. The unfulfilled German prophecy in Itindenburg's March into Lou don anticipated a battle on the Upper ...

... The Battle of the Somme. Those painful and accurate penmen, the news-writr& as Swift has it, are now unmurled on the Western front, and are hexing the time of their lives. Since the British an French advance began they have poured out columns of brilliant ...

... short training on Salisbury Plain the battery proceeded to Egypt and thence to Praises, where at is part io the great battle on the Somme. On June 29th Captain Hermort-Hodge received terrible Injuries to the face, hack and head from shrapnel. and hey is ...

... were the battles of the Marne and the Aisne, followed by a struggle on the . iser. Now . is raging the battle of the Somme, which may last for some weeks. . The unfulfilled German prophecy in Itindenburg's March into Lon don anticipated .a battle on the ...

... THE SITUATION. MILITARY AND POLITICAL. The war news of the week has been uniformly good front all the battle front& The struggle on the Somme forms one of the peateat and vest bettila in history. and it Ito exaggerition to my that on the result of it ...