... HOLDING SOMME CAPTURES. The battle of the Somme has again been marked by steady and encouraging, if but +low and the week hag brought fresh sueto the Allied armies. The advance has be•r rrmarklibly continuous, having regard to the overwhelming difficulties ...

... and Courcelette have been described by one of the correspondents with our armies a. pertlair , thegreate•t since the battle of the Somme began. The French advance, had already, in conjunction with the earlier operations of the British, marked the beginning ...

... all our efforts since the beginning of the great offensive on the Somme, had at last fallen also. This dual success crowned one of the most brilliant operations since the battle of the Somme started. Comfiks has, for a fortnight or more, been the immediate ...