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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

HEAVY RAIN IMP

... a hangar at Douai, besides doing other material damage. \ccording to the French semi-official staicment, before the battle of the Somme an pursue its victorious course the British position must be brought into line with the new French position. Yesterday ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 187 | 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

Ot R MASTERY OF THE AIR

... OUR MASTERY OF THE AIR. ‘Whee the history of the battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true perspective (says the Press Association at the British Headquarters) I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant facts in this whole lustrous ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

worr of ul toon

... gals at Dunbar. Maze race meetng (County Down) relatives of the been abandoned io with the bereaved whe fell in the battle of the Somme. the Ulster Divimon footballers are in action “Ginger” Williams, and Private F. Nerthampten Town. ‘s Park, Par- tek ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1916
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 5 | 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

FRENCH AWAITING THE BRITISH

... trom of the offensive by the British from Thiep- ral to a poimt where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme man its victorious course, it is import ant that our advance, which was slower in the Britesh and speeder in the Prench ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1378 | Page: 5 | Tags: none