... a distance of some seven miles. The reason for what may be called the lack incident is simple. The battle of the Somme north of the river has undergone a change in the character of the fighting. It has become more concentrated. Several correspondents ...

... PORTADOWN. In battle of the Somme, Portadown suffered heavily. Up to the present 30 men are reported to have been killed or died wounds, 80 wounded, and 3 missing, making a total of 113. Amongst the latest casualties notified are the following:— Best ...

... to have been without result. When the battle opened on Thursday morning it was the Germans who attacked, not the British, and the line was Bazentin-Longucval-Delville Wood. This change in the definition of the battle line is full of significance. It is ...

... now in our hands.” It is, of course, a mere spisode in the battle the Somme, the storming and the capture of this little village. But it is flushed with the grandeur of a hard-won battle, a battle that in any war but this might reckoned of first-class importance ...

... Antrim on Monday, referred to the great gallantry which has distinguished the troops from Ulster in the fighting at. the battles of the Somme, and his observations, applicable to the county of Antrim as they were, are in a special manner applicable also the ...