... issued this afternoon by tbe Press Bureau : On both shies of the Somme our infantry this morning attacked the German positions, and realised marked advantages. To the north of the Somme captured the enemy trenches, from the Mamelon d'Hardecourt far the ...

... to break through is no longer a practicable one. In the language of yesterday’s French semi-official statement “the battle of the Somme is following a regular rhythm of successive, methodical, prudent advances.” Measured in figures, the fruits the week’s ...

... BRITISH OFFENSIVE ON THE SOMME. SMASHING THROUGH THE GERMAN TRENCHES. British Drive 500 Yards Wedge on 2000 Yards Front. OTHER NOTABLE GAINS. Retreating Enemy Caught Under Devastating Fire, The first stage of the battle of the Somme has been followed acts ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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’ ...

... Houses of Convocation and Laymen in each province were approved. NOTES ON THE WAR. (By a Special Correspondent.) The battle of the Somme has_ reached the end of its earliest phase, which consisted in the capture of the enemy’s first defensive system. The ...

... —Central News- Munitions Beyond Imagination. PARIS, Tuesday. Interviewed by the Petit Parisien one cf the wounded from the battle of the Somme said : The orders were well given. Never were the losses so slight. There were very few' dead, and the wounded were ...

... the resumption of offensive by the British from Thiepval to a point where thev link up with 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 ...