... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. STOP PRESS NEWS The Times says: The Battle of the Somme has not slackened, but its character has undergone temporary modification. Just now the conflicts are more Wte tjrust that when the story of the battle can be told ...

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. MORE BRITISH SUCCESSES. GERMANS SWEPT OUT OF LONCUEVAL. AT CLOSE CRIPS NEAR POZIERES. [British Ofllcial.] Headquarters, France, Friday, 10.15 p.m. Continuing their successes yesterday our troops liave captured tho enemy stronßholds ...

... grasp of the much-vaunted Brandenburghers. The capture of Pozieres logically concluded the second stage of the great Battle of the Somme; it definitely established the British on the line to which the second main *‘ push ’’ was directed. The ** Times ' ...

... every yard of this ‘had been fortified to the utmost extent which German ingenuity could devise. The battle of the Somme has been compared with the battle of Verdun, and the British in one month have made twice or thrice the progress which the Germans were ...

... the greatest assets of the future of their country. Their loss in the conduct of the groat infantry attacks in the Battle of the Somme would appear, a casual valuation, to place their worth no higher than that of the average intellect which, backed by ...

... Thiaumont Work failed. —Oentral News. Paris, Friday. After some the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course the battle on the Somme front, the British, comprising Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, have driven the famous Brandenourgers ...