... GERMANY AND NEUTRALS. Von Wiegand comments on the lack of details in the Berlin official statements regarding the battle of the Somme. Be !says tha German General Staff has shown no disposition to lift the veil, and is evidently indifferent to opinion ...

... days (a quiet only in the sense that the activities are of • 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 SA Aveluy below Athuilk, we hold two slices ...

... proceeding steadily surely from day to day, is more aignificant than any repent* incur.ion through the German front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisaties to be markedly superior. in one eery important respect, to that of ...