... OFFICIAL STORY BRITISH HOLDING POZIERES. GERMAN ADMISSION. The official story, told in the fob lowing messages, of the battle of the Somme, includes the statement from Berlin that “the British succeeded in holding Pozieres.” ...

... THE BUSY BRITISH. PARIS, Sunday. The 2 tst day of the battle in the Somme district brought no material modification on the whole of the front. The French organised the positions captured on Thursday. The enemy only made two attempts at reaction —the first ...

... STRAGGLERS THE SOMME. During the past week there has been a- good deal of steady progress in the British movement on the Somme, says “The Spectator.” The enemy have been driven back, not of course on wide a front as that with which we began the battle, but on ...

... will be simply misleading. Care is especially necessary when we are dealing with events not completed, such as the Battle of the Somme. Nevertheless it is not amiss to turn back at the present time, as several commentators have done lately, to Grant’s ...

... accompanying map from Mr. H. Warner Allen, tho representative of the British Press with the French Army illustrates the Battle of the Somme from July July 10. YOKKSHIEE FARMERS’ UNION Mr, T. Harrison (Marr Hall) presided at the meeting- of the Yorkshire Farmers’ ...

... Correspondent.) Fleet Street, Sunday Night. A RETURN to cold grey skies and the news in the afternoon editions that the Battle of the Somme, now three weeks old, has entered on a still more desperate stage, at the moment pretty indecisive, has made London ...

... the whole Army and the people of England are being thrilled with the glorious deeds of our soldiers in the great battles beyond the Somme, it must not be forgotten that along other parts of the long line other of our armies are still worthily upholding ...

... careful inspection of recent German official reports and a comparison with the facts —the facts of the fighting in the battles of the Somme—is now available. “The German General Staff,” it concludes, “does well to appeal to the German people for confidence ...

... INVENTIONS. PARIS, Wednesday. Concerning the battles of the Somme, the Germans are once again ksuing to neutrals communiques and comments which are absolutely false. To cite one instance, they state that the Franco-British troops delivered a decisive ...