... Little news is coming to hand with regard to the Russian forces operating on the Persian frontier towards Baghdad. The Battle of the Somme. Now that our Ally has approached nearly to Peronne, she has called something of a halt to enable the British lines ...

... first phases of the battle of the Somme will be published in the French papers to-morrow. The greater part of the detail, are known already, but the following extracts contain interesting supplementary information. The French battle front on July 1, both ...

... in Longueval and Delville Wood. have this, however, to strengthen our confidence, that since the opening stages the battle of rhe Somme our .troops have never so far lost ground which they have captured and consolidated, and they have consolidated all ...

... gained. SOMME PREPARATION. FOUR MONTHS’ ORGANISATION THE FRENCH. From Mr. H. WARNER ALLEN (Special Representative of the British Press with the french Armies). Paris, Thursday. An authoritative account of the first phases of the battle of the Somme from ...

... other carefully chosen part the front. All the counterattacks which th© Germans have attempted in the course of the battle of the Somme have completely failed, vide the enemy’s momentary re-occupation of the villages of Gontalmaison and Bazentin-le-Petit ...

... Archbishop of York. The Archbishop and Our Boys. The Archbishop went on to remind the Lords that at the present time the battle of the Somme was reminding what splendid material these boys would have been if only they had received for however short a time an ...

... advance on the nocthern hank of She Somme when the time to erniadise the southern and northern trona.. There are vitrimts points nf interest which affect the who!. future of the operations about the joint adi-ance on the Somme. Ah the whole eani't of the Allies ...

... comparatively calm. The weather is very bad. KAISER THE SOMME FRONT. (Press Association War Special.) Amsterdam, Monday. to official telegram from Berlin, the Kaiser is present in the battle sector the Somme, where he has received reports from the Commander-in-Chief ...

... came answered it without hesitation, and became a very efficient officer. Chance Scott fell the Ist July at the battle of the Somme in the prime of life, and has left behind him the inspiring example of a brave, high-minded man who put duty before ...

... Middleton, 14, Rosebank View, Westfield Road, Burley, Leeds, who succumbed in Edin- burgh to wounds received in the battle of the Somme, Private Middleton, who was 33 years of age, and a married man with one child, was wounded so severely in the right ...

... half-, way between Erzcrum and Trobirond Armenia. KAISER ON THE SOMME. DISTRIBUTING IRON CROSSES. According official telegram from Berlin to-day. the Kaiser present in the battle sector the Somme, where he has received reports from the the Array, conversed ...

... also expressed their admiration of the heroism of the Down regiments which formed part of the Ulster Division in the battle of the Somme, and of the heroism: of Down men serving in other units. They ezpressed sympathy with the sick and wounded and with ...