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GERMANS' VAIN HOPE

... to your Majesty and to your gallant armies heartiest greetings upon their last magnificent achievements in the great battle of the Somme. —Nicholas. To the Emperor, Imperial Headquarters, Russia. In the name of my army and on my ow r n behalf I heartily ...

THRILLING STORIES OF HEROISM In the Great Battles of the Somme. THE CORPORAL THAT KILLED 22,

... THRILLING STORIES OF HEROISM In the Great Battles of the Somme. THE CORPORAL THAT KILLED 22, One hears many tales of individual gal-|by the prisoner; and it is officially accepted lantry; as of the officer of considerable runk |by the umit as true, and ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DOMINATING GUNS,

... DOMINATING GUNS, British. War Correspondents’ Headquarters, France, Saturday. The defeat of the German army in the battle of the Somme has progressed more rapidly during the past week than at any other corresponding period since the big offensive began ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE GERMAN CLAIM

... avoided battle. German troops on the opposite side th© Haar rivulet, south of Henndorf (Hegen), successfully attacked one of the Roumanian columns and repulsed it. capturing eleven officers. 591 men, and three machine-guns. The encircling battle which began ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LATE LORD FEVERSHAM

... service was held the Parish Church, Kirbymisperton, on Friday night, for three soldiers who had fallen in the great Battle of the Somme —the late Earl of (patron the living). Sec.-Lieut. Wilfred Hailiwell (son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Twentyman, of ...

CZAR’S MESSAGE. BRITISH ACHIEVEMENTS THE SOMME. , The following telegrams have passed between the Emperor of ..

... upon their last magnificent achievements in the great battle of the Somme. NICHOLAS. 29th September, 1916. To the Emperor, Imperial Headquarters Russia, —In the name of my Army, and on my own behalf, I heartily thank your Majesty for your gratifying message ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SOMME FILM HERO IDENTIFIED

... SOMMEF FILM HERO ID N TIFIED In tho official film of the Battle of the Somme a British soldier is shown carrying a badly-wounded soldier to safety, and he is described as “an unknown hero who rescued twenty wounded men.” That soldier is Triver Tom Spencer ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HERO OF THE SOMME FILM

... HERO OF THE SOMME FILM. In the official film of the Battle of the Somme a British soldier is shown carrying a badly-wounded soldier to safety, and he is described as ‘‘an unknown hero who rescued twenty wounded men.” That soldier is Driver Tom Spencer ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHEN WILL THE WAR END?

... decided on the Somme just conclusively and absolutely aft the fate of Napoleon was decided Waterloo. There was striking sentence interjected in the official communique from Sir Douglas Haig on September 18th. It was the British alone the Somme, not including ...

JOFFRE SANGUINE. It is not often that General Joffre, the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armws,‘ lets himself ..

... “ Order of the Day,” issued to the Northern Armies of the Republic. =~ We are now in the fourth month of the great battles on the Somme front, and General Joffre sums up the situation in the words that “ blows have been struck at’ the cnemy from which ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1916
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 310 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LENGTH OF THE WAR

... Turning Tide of War, said that assming that, according to one estimate, there were 122 German divisions during the battle of the Somme, the French and ourselves had defeate-d something hko a half of the total German forces, or something like a million ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1916
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH OFFICIAL

... the day addressed bv General Jolfre the Somme troops and published yesterday, the ex pert French commentator says It arts forth the object and result of the French offensive. the one hand the battle of the Somme has freed Verdun, and the other hand haa ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1916
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 500 | Page: 4 | Tags: none