Battle of the Somme
... Battle of the Somme A wonderfully vivid description of the Big Push IN TO-MORROW’S ...
... Battle of the Somme A wonderfully vivid description of the Big Push IN TO-MORROW’S ...
... TIIF REGINNING. PARIS, Friday. The semi-official statement issued last night says : The first stage of the battle of the Somme has come an end after continuing uninterruptedly for five days. To-day brought no change in the situation of the Allies. In ...
... tactical links between the armies been im- proved. In no point has this been more closely demonstrated than in the battle of the Somme. few days ago General Chertils, in the Echo de Paris/’ published a Staff _ circular pointing out the necessity of d ...
... 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 ...
... Loos were the initiation of the new British armies; the battle of the Somme has supremely proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of the most splendid British traditions. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be ...
... 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 ...
... inclemency of the weather, made further notable progress on the Somme yesterday. After the calm of the day before the French troops again went into action on the extreme left wing, north the Somme, in the sector in which occurs our junction with the British ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... . Where did we go in ? Oh, near Albat. Our objective was Mary’s Court, or some such place.” It is evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war vocabulary. “Wipers” is veteran by this time; “Plugshcet,” “Booloo ...
... District Council at their monthly meeting passed resolution of sympathy with the relatives of local men fallen in the battle of the Somme, on the motion of the Chairman (Mr. T. Washington). The Chairman said he had received letter from a resident calling ...
... 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 ...