... KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. News flondwieh on Thursday morning that Pvt. Herbert J. Langley. Royal Wept Kent only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Langley, of Strand-street, Sandwich. was killed on Saturday at the early port of advance. Deceased was for ...

... BATTLE OF SOMME. Tlst battle of the Boonne, to ue a conveniently ounprelseneive term for the great thrust which the British and French armies are making, together with the operations of our Russian and Italian allies, has filled our newspapers and our ...

... on steadily. Yesterday morning the general situation was as follows: The British Headquarters noted that since the Battle o: the Somme began the Germans facing the British had received large reinforcements. The new British positions were strongly attacked ...

... contrary international law against neutral firms having commercial relations with Germany.— P.A. War Special. During the battle of too Somme a North Count ryman who has just been invalided home fired point-blank at a German charge machine-gun. but the man still ...

... vat the offensive by the British from Thiepial to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the Battle of the Somme can pursue its •ictoriona course it is important that onr advance. which Iris slower in the British sector sad ieedicr ...

... him given his life for hie country. Joyes enlisted on the outbreak of the war, and he was wounded in the bead at the battle of the Somme, never regaining consmoustess, and dying t h e same day. Members of the V.T.C. have presented their Quartermaster, Mr ...

... No Man's land. After that we used the bayonet and they didn't give us no more vexatiousness. It is evident that the battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war. vocabulary. Wipers is a veteran by this time. Plugstreet, ...

... IHE VERDUN FRONT Apart from the reference the* battle on the* Somme*, the French communiques issued during the week-end contained the following; Saturday. 3 p.m. On the from north ol Verdun violent artillery struggle took place*, notably in the* sectors ...

... steadily and surely from day to day, is more significant than any separate incursion through the German Front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...

... Early Closing Thursday at 1 o'clock. PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE, THE ENEMY'S COUNTER-ATTACKS, PARIS, Friday. The genii-official statement issued last nii says : The first stage of the Battle of the Somme has come to an end after continuing uninterruptedly ...

... correspondent at British Headquarters in the Field. France, writee in a despetch dated Saturday When the history of the Battle of the Somme comes to he written in Am true peispeetive, I think it will be found that one of the most brilliant forte in this whole ...

... resumption of the offensive the British from Thiepval to the point where they iink with the French forces. Before i'’o Battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...