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STOKHOQ BATTLE. RUSSIANS BEAT OFF A GERMAN ATTACK. Von Bothmer's Army Reportod Nearly Enveloped. Last aiirht'o ..

... confidence in ultimate victory being shattered, at least shaken. GERMANS TERRORISED BY OUR AIRMEN Nothing since this battle on the Somme began (says the war correspondent the Daily News) has stopped our constant bombing from aeroplanes of important military ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1916
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRENCH LIFE

... The German newspapers state that during the month of July 20.000,000 shells exploded in the German limes during the battle of the Somme. The Munich Naehriohten states that the applications for compensation u«rh K out of damage resulting from the Russian ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1916
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 531 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POPULAR DISCONTENT IN TURKEY

... —Central News. ALLIES USE TWENTY MILLION SHELLS ON THE SOMME. The German newspapers state that during the month of July 20.0CW.000 ahellt exploded in the German linee during the battle of the Somme. AIR ATTACK ON DURAZZO. An official telegram from Rome ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1916
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MISSING

... serving his country, while two weer members are in hospital suffering from wounds. Private Mercer was engaged in the battle of the Somme when be was struck by a piece of 'a bursting shell on July 4th. His funeral et Aston was attended by about 50 wounded ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1916
Newspaper: Runcorn Guardian
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Bantam Fighter. WILL SEND HIS WIFE PIECE OF DEAD – GERMAN'S COAT

... i s the course of- which he sans:—Qh, I hese had a terriblattme. Ira been Phan hell. - I been. and am yet, in the battle of the Somme. It is too awful to tell von about. While I am wrAing this letter Shells are banging all around. You should see us going ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 182 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Late Captain Ralphs

... wan held in St. Mark’s Church to the late Ceplain Walter Jool Ralphs, 12th Bettery, RF.A., who fell in aomon in the battle of the Somme on July 15th. The preacher was the Rev. Canon Bird, vicar dCthhnudi.Mybndg,andM Dean of Mottramn, and he spoke of Captain ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Stalybridge Reporter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GREAT INFLUX OF WOUNDED

... utmost during the week, and the whole the 24 beds arc now occupied with men some of whom have been wounded in the recent battle on the Somme. Since the commencement of the war 182 wounded soldiers have been treated at the Home, all of whom have been discharged ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 209 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH ADVANCE AT THJAUMONT. FAILURE OF ENEMY ATTACKS. AIR RAIDS ON GERMAN TOWNS. The following official ..

... FORCES.” —♦ Berlin, Saturday (by wireless). —To- official report states: According to supplementary reports the battle to the north of the Somme, which we reported yesterday, took place on an extended front and against stkong English' forces. Part of the ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1916
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1091 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ItYSNA'S HEAVY BLOWS

... HEAVY BLOWS. Ou Way 31 greatest naval battle in his tory was (ought 01/ Jutland when the British encountered „the German Beet and it back to port. 'The British battle-cruisers and three anmseed cruisers stank: the German is In but Admiral Jellicoe claims ...

Published: Tuesday 08 August 1916
Newspaper: Fleetwood Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

which opened on February 21, and car .not now be said to have closed. It aimed at the capture of

... RUSBIA.I3 HEAVY BLOWS. Orr May 31 the greatest naval battle in history was fought off Jutland when the British eneountered the German Beet and drove it back to port. The British loss was heavythree battle-eruisers and three armoured crubsers sunk; the German ...

Published: Tuesday 08 August 1916
Newspaper: Blackpool Gazette & Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHAT WE HAVE DONE

... already begun. But victory has its price, and so it is this morning that we—commemorate ““the lives laid down” at the battle of the Somme. Of eight of our brave comrades, seven from our own local battalion, the 11th South TLancashires, which has already ...

Glorious Battles

... Glorious Battles. We had got h.& u, tines alorions battles. There was the Naval battle off Jutland. (Applause.) There was the glorious battle of Ypres--where even the men in the kitchen came forward to stop the foo—and there was the battle ...

Published: Tuesday 08 August 1916
Newspaper: Runcorn Guardian
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 101 | Page: 3 | Tags: none