... Herbert Featherstone, younger son the Rev. R. J. Featherstone, Vicar of St. Luke’s, Tbornaby-on-Tees, had been killed the battle of the Somme. He was twenty-six years age. News was received in bkipton, on Saturday morning the death action Cpl. E. C. Briggw, ...

... 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 ...

... organisation in Europe. It haA been said that Neuve Chapelle and Loos were the initiation of the new British armies. The battle of the Somme has supremely proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of the most splendid British traditions. Spectacular Spurts ...

... organisation in Enrope. It has been ea:d that Native Chapelle and Loos were the initiation of the new British Armies; the battle of the Somme Las aepremeiy proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of the most splendid British tradition+. My peraortal interest ...

... advanced, the Russians advanced, the Italians advanced, Verdun held well, and the Germans gave ground everywhere. The “battle of the Somme was continued on Saturday co-ordinated Anglo-French attack at the point which the Allied lines join. The objective ...

... 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 ...

... BALLOONS ATTACKED AT RANGE OF FIFTY YARDS. British Headquarters in the Field, France, Saturday. When the history of the Battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true perspective, 1 think it will be found that one of the most brilliant facets in this ...

... MM™MARY. In spite of bad weather, there was much fierce fighting in the Battle of the Somme during the week-end, At the junction of their lines the British and French, attack- ing simultaneously, achieved fresh suc cesses. In the Italian theatre no very ...

... first week of battle its incidents; but the broad results emerge clearly. After a week of desperate and ' bitter fighting the initial objective—the ' German first position—has been everywhere gained on the front from Thiepval to the Somme; and it has been ...

... south the Russians have captured Delatyii, the chief gate leading the Carpathians. Our men have mad© further in the battle in the Somme region, Saturday’s /fighting being principally our extreme right, where further important successes have been gained ...

... incursion through the German front, a form of attack singularly without permanent value and highly dangerous. ” The battle of the Somme emphatically demonstrates British organisation is markedly superior in one very important THE PRICE OF VICTORY. HEAVY ...

... tactical links between the armies been im- proved. In no point has this been more closely demonstrated than in the battle of the Somme. few days ago General Chertils, in the Echo de Paris/’ published a Staff _ circular pointing out the necessity of d ...