... explosions.—Reuter. (From a Special Correspondent.) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, France.— When the history . of the battle of the Somme conies to be written in its true perspective I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant facets in this ...

... vexatiousness. Where did we Wrtn: Oh, near .4.lbat. Our objective was Mary's or some such place. • (It is evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to war vo_ . _ . . cabutary. Wipers, Plugsheet, Booloo, and Armintears ...

... two days —a quiet only in the sense that the activities are of a local character—we can regard the first stage of the battle of the Somme as definitely closed. You already know the result. On the north, as far down as Aveluy, below Anthuille, we hold two ...

... STRIKING A BALANCE A Breathing-Space THE Battle of the Somme has reached the familiar stage at which each side chivalrously concerns itself with the enormous losses of the other. That is usually a stage where offensive aspirations modify themselves in ...

... The Second Week. The battle of the Somme, which flared up I again so fiercely on Friday, was relatively less violent on Saturday and yesterday, but the Allies , have continued to gain successes. Heavy rainfall again impeded the operations on Friday night ...

... the tactical links between the Armies been improved. In no point has this been more clearly demonstrated than in the battle of the Somme. A few days ago General Cherfils in the Echo de Paris published a German staff circular pointing out the great necessity ...

... in the military representation seems urgently called for in this case. The most impressive thing in the story of the battle on the Somme, so far as it has yet been told, is the universal testimony to the heroic pluck of our infantry in the face of tremendous ...

... and entanglements, will prove to have been thrown away. Not a British soldier and not a Frenchman has fallen in the battle on the Somme whose life has not purchased for his country an equivalent of inerairnab!e worth. The prospects of the war are not the ...

... or- black with grit and smoke, set to work to g anisation of Germany. • consolidate their gains. Montauban was The battle of the Somme has emphatic- ours. a lly demonstrated British organisation Further still to the right a very brilliant to bs markedly ...

... MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.) An officer of the Royal Engineers, one of the wounded, in giving his impressions of . the battle of the Somme, is reported to have said a very significant thing. Knowing precisely what he has to do, every man is busy doing it ...

... d artiilery o rations upon —_~———_ The reduced to ver pair. ‘these points, and ordered the opening of a Before the battle of the Somme can t that our ¢ deliver immediately this very powerful carriage paid, upon the receipt of lfire of unprecedented violence ...

... MISMANAGEMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA. A FORGOTTEN FORCE. The absorbing interest of the great battles on the ' Somme and at Verdun, and of the Russian offensives, should not lead us to forget that we have a large force of British and Indian troops grilling on ...