... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...