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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME THE . CAPTURE OF HILL 97 . BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK ( To-day ' s Times Telegram , per the Peess Association . ] ( Copyright . ) Paws , Tuesday . The French , since their capture of Hill 97 , southeast of Biaches , aroonly a ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE MIDLOTHIAN JOURNAL. FRIDAY

... SINGING HEARTS. There is something strangely inhuman in the aspect of a battle watched from the edge of its furnace fires (says Philip Gibbs in describing the battle at the Somme), or even as I stood watching it within the crescent of our guns. Batfraliono ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1916
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... yesterday must have been very . severe . There is a lull on the French front on both sides of the Somme . ' y There is a laconic reference to the Battle of the Somme in yesterday ' s Berlin bulletin , which savs that tho fi ghting is : proceeding not unfavourably ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Without ; hast © and without rest prceeeas ' / the Allied ' pressure directed against the Ger-: man lines

... movement . -They pushed their advance , capturing ins village of Caches , on the Somme . and so nave reached a point directly opposite to - Peronne , Xorth of the Somme there was ; on Saturday still a . difacult task-to carry-out before the first phase ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 925 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Without the incessant tattering or tne enemy by overwhelming bombardment the Snal objective of the Allies ..

... sign that this is a mistaken estimate . There is good authority for believing that Verdun iells the same story as the battle of the Somme . Though a sli ght advance has been made b y the Germans since the July oSensive b y the Allies began , there is no ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 4 | Tags: none