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... THE BATTLE ON THE SOMME. FURTHER BRITISH ADVANCE. STRONG POSITION CARRIED. *L on d on , Sept. 22.—Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters, in a message dated the 20th inst., says :—The Germans during the past 24 hours delivered several heavy counter-attacks ...
... STOP PRESS NEWS. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY) LATEST WAR NEWS. THE BATTLE ON THE SOMME. FURTHER BRITISH ADVANCE. TWO LINES OF TRENCHES TAKEN. London, Sept. 22,—General Haig this afternoon says in his communique : South of the Ancre we have advanced on a ...
... casualties have been much the more serious. A fact of the first importance is that the Germans have now used in the battle of the Somme as many divisions as they used in the whole of the Verdun fighting. No commander, presumably, puts a division into the ...
... trenches. Subsequently the French developed their gains by a series of local actions. Summarising the results of the battle of the Somme, a French expert commentator says :—Between the opening of the offensive on July 1 and September 18 the total captures ...
... IF THE SOMME PROGRESS CEASED. The New York Tribune of a week or so earlier contains a leader on the battle of the Somme, in which the following occurs : The Verdun operation was a single and comprehensive effort ; it was the one thing Germany was undertaking ...
... nothing further to report beyond heavy artillery actions between the Ancre and the Somme. SERIES OF FRENCH SUCCESSES. The Paris communique says :—The battle on the Somme continued violently throughout the day with further advances. Fierce German count ...
... seems to be little doubt, moreover, that the best regiments remaining to Germany are now more or less engaged in the battle of the Somme. It must be obvious to all that the task of breaking through in the west, of getting beyond a labyrinth of field works ...
... FORTNIGHT. DETAILS THE SOMME ADVANCE. Mr. H. Warne'r Allen, special correspondent of the British Press with the French Armies, in one of his messages gives a summary of an authoritative account of the first phases of the Battle of • the Somme frcm July 1 to July ...
... DETAILS OF THE VICTORY. *London„ Sept. 16.—Paris: The following particulars regarding yesterday's great battles on the Somme have been received from a French source. The morning was a beautiful one, the weather favouring aerial observation, when the British ...