... other 6 capital ships. ips. @ 158,520 tona. MILITARY. On the Russian Front In the Trentino In front of Verdun Tn the Battle of the Somme. Elsewhere on al! ronts . . 130,000 80,000 60,000 The maps show how coneiderable has been the loss of territory, especially ...

... CAPTAIN RAYMOND LTTTEN Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed on Saturday,' July Ist, the battle of the Somme, when leading his company into action. He was the only son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs. Litten, of 21, Pembridge ...

... THE MLLITAHY SITUATION RUSSIA AND ITALY—NATURE OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME . [ From Our Militaby Correspondent . ] It has been agreed on all hands that the Germans fully expected our attack in Picardy , and were therefore very well prepared to meet us ...

... 1114 . ( p . IO . ) Oca military correspondent discusses the results of tbe fighting of BVussi 3 and Italy , and the battle of the Somme . ( p . 6 . ) Ths representative of the British Press sits the Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia describes the difficulties ...

... them for safeguarding our native shores. • • THE FRONTING IN FRANCE. Tea Allies continue to make good progress in the battle on the Somme. More ground has been gained as the reward of bard lighting. and before last week bad come to a close the French had ...

... both flanks the Ulstermen were at the mercy of tne enemy, and had to retire to the third line of trenches. When the battle of the Somme takes its place in the story of this great war the deeds which the Ulster Division accomplished on Saturday last will ...

... eteadily 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 ...

... THE WAR BATTLE OF THE SOMME. IMPORTANT BRITISH SUCCESSES cApTrRE PIO:ANS:RS AND HALL OF During Mat -reit-end fishtin r continued nu the peiuetpc:ly the aorta the river. Nearlya mils to east of Montauban a a trenches was etorned. end a lodgmest gain* d ...

... PERSISTENT PUSH. there were any doubts about British ascendancy in the battle of the Somme they must have been dispelled by yesterday’s report from General Headquarters. A fortnight ago struck swiftly and struck hard. We crashed through the German front ...

... London after the Push At the hospital where the above view was taken some 300 r slightly wounded soldiers back from the battles near the Somme are being tended. This hospital has its roof covered with a L. little colony of houses where the men can benefit by ...

... killed in action. Private Arthur Longbottom,. Derby, “A Company. 11th Battalion, Boyal Fusiliers, was wounded at the battle of the Somme—in the advance on Fricourt and Mametx Wood-on the Ist inst. His iniury (shrapnel) is happily not serious, and he is ...

... Corpl. Wm, Stronach, of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, and son of Constable and Mrs. Stronach, has been wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and is now in hospital in London. Lce.-Corpl. Stronach, who has been hit on the left arm by a shrapnel bullet, is one ...