... THE BATTLE THE SOMME FRENCH SEMI-OFFICIAL STATEMENT. BRITISH GAINS SUMMARISED. GOOD DAY'S WORK. (Prcs3 Association War'Spocial.) Paris, Saturday. semi-official statement issued last night says: main feature of to-day the resumption of the offensive tho ...

... NATURAL LAXATIVE. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The Greet Bombardment: Some Effects and Incidents. ...

... resumption of the offensive hr the British from Thiepral to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme een pursue its victorious course it is importert that our advance, which slower in the British sector, and speedier ...

... munitions is adequate for an . unprecedented bombardment. The British organs satire, is inferior to no other army, and the battle of the Somme proves onr volunteer soldiers worthy of the splendid traditions. Asked whether this was the big push of the war. Lord ...

... Tribute. Kitchener's Army will remain for all time Lord Kitchener’s finest monument. Ho did not live to see the glory the Battle of the Somme, to know ’how completely his faith in the battalions created was to be justified. That was the real tragedy of his death ...

... Airmen's Magnificent Work. BRITISH tfITERS IX TILF, FIELD (France), Saturday. [Received To-day.) When the history of the Battle of the Somme comps to be written in its true petspective I think it will he found that one of the most brilliant Lifts in this whole ...

... Commissioner for New Zealand : War Correspondents' Headquarters, France, Jaly The great battle of the Somme gong an extended front became really a series of battles, and soma of the fiercest fighting has taken place in the vicinity of the battered villages ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to a point where they link 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 aud speeding ...

... organisation in Enrope. It has been ea:d that Native Chapelle and Loos were the initiation of the new British Armies; the battle of the Somme Las aepremeiy proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of the most splendid British tradition+. My peraortal interest ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where tbey link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...

... NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS. flatty SATURDAY. July 8, 1916. The Battle of tho Somme. The Battle of the Somme promises to be (.■ long drawn out as the Battle of the Aisne ill the autumn of 1914. It continues to go we .l, for if our progress is ...

... south the Russians have captured Delatyii, the chief gate leading the Carpathians. Our men have mad© further in the battle in the Somme region, Saturday’s /fighting being principally our extreme right, where further important successes have been gained ...