... SHARP INFANTRY, FIGHTING ON THE BRITISH FRONT. INTENSE ARTILLERY FIRE AT VERDUN. STUBBORN CONFLICTS IN EASTERN GALICIA. Battle of the Somme. During Wednesday night fighting continued at various parts of the British front, but there was no change in the situation ...

... TUESDAY. Battle of the Somme. There has been on the British front particularly severe fighting at the Trones Wood. On Saturday morning our troops succeeded in capturing the southern end of the wood, and the enemy has since made five violent counter-attacks ...

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

... 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 ...

... regiment , are aplendid, arid that they do nit know the damning of fear. You will be able to appreciate the rest. The battle of the Somme, he went to *ay, was a keen of a .eoldter'is c 4 dross:sail courage, and it just *itch an erperience as to try the inettle ...

... THE GREATEST BATTLE OF THE WESTERN WAR. Telegraphing on the 4th July the same Correspondent says : Already has the struggle that is raging north and south of the Somme assumed the proportions, in point of numbers engaged, of the biggest battle of the war ...

... Prospects on 'the Somme. The storming of the village of Contalmaison on Tuesday night enabled Sea Hato, in a bulletin published on Wednesday, to review the progress made since the great offensive began in the region of the Somme. On a front of eight miles ...

... killed in action. Private Arthur Dongbottom, Derby. A” Company, 11th Battalion. Royal Fusiliers, was wounded at the battle of the Somme—in the advance on Frioourt and Mamets Wood—on the Ist inst. His injury (shrapnel) is happily not serious, and he is ...

... Wales Hotel, ¥reewman-street, has been killed. 4 Photo by] {(SHERLOCK,Grimsby. LANCE-CORPORAL A. MILSON. Wounded in the battle of the Somme on July Ist, antl died the following day. ; Lance-Corporal -Alf. Milson, of Bursar-street, was well-known aund greatly ...

... British advance, have engaged German reginienta which might otherwise have been' Wilfted to the flanks of our Ally. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...

... of war, and before joining the colours was employed at Messrs. Timmins' foundry. He is only 20 years of age. IN THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Private O. Ormes, of New street, has been wounded and writes the following letter to his mother: I am pleased to ...

... already the wonderful successes of the Russian offensive, the reverse to the Austrians in the Trentino, and in the battle of the Somme. To use Mr. Lloyd George’s expression, the whole complexion of the landscape of the war has thereby been changed. The ...