... the church god discovery of carved aagek. THE BATTLE OF ATTRITION. Mr. E. Aslunead Bartlett, the London Daily Telegraph representative wi th the French Armies, wrier.—lf the maks et the battle of the Somme up to the preenst were to be gauged merely b ...

... —The greatest artillery battle of the Somme still continues. It has spread to the front north of the and has increased south of the Somme, especially both sides of Vermandovillere. Our curtain fire between the Ancre and the Somme almost everywhere arrested ...

... 1915. His cousin, Second-Lieutenant J. S. M. Gage, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is-missing since the opening of the battle of the- Somme Ist July last. BEGONDrUEUT. SAMUEL WAEING, Royal Irish Rifles, wounded on the Ist inst., is son of Air. Lucas Waring ...

... Cermany. Her two sons. Pte. John Donaldson and Pte. Samuel Donaldson, both the Royal Irish Rifles, were killed at the battle of the Somme. To add her trouble, her husband died Sunday Irst. His funeral on Tuesday last, to Comber Churchyard, was very large ...

... Thuredef•—tinting 00 ening After the great bound forward by our the French Expert Counatater says:— armies in the battle of the Somme on the )3th tll the informatMn received tends, to coo- 4 „ ion , rain set hem the feet that the fall of the village ...

... Thecreatest artillery battle of the Somme ' ritill continues. It has spread to the 'irfjnt of the Ancre, and has increased south the Somme, especially both sides of Vermandovilliers. Our curtain fire between the Ancre and the Somme almost everywhere arrested ...

... message from the correspondent the Liberfce” on the .Somme front states that the struggle for Sailly will remain one of the finest, and the same time one of the most, tragic, episodes of the battle of the Somme. The small number prisoners captured emphasises ...

... addressed by tienerel lan. to the Somme troop*. sad publiAsed yesterday. the Expert French Cowmenlatot oats:— It mete forth the object and result of the French offensive. On the one hand. the battle of the 'Somme has freed Verdun; on the other hand ...

... bombarded until the maionty of the occupants were tilled. Hs eye— One of the remit important lessons drawn from the battle of the Somme is that under heavy methodical artillery fir: the frdnt line should only thinly Itekt, but by reliable men end a few ...

... insists that hereafter lie must he trained to the highest possible degree of sell-reliance. The lemons learned 111 the Battle at the Somme cover many. ages. No detail is too minute for Sencoal on Armin. He ankh Oft th. lefeats of his men with characteritsis ...

... communique of October 9th almost any denial, so imaginatire is it. General von Ludendorf miens that and Chaulnes. the battle of the Somme is redoubling in intensity on a front of 25 kilometres, and that General son Bitelow's troop* have not lad an inch of ...

... usual cannonade. Aviation.—A captivo baJloou was brought down in the region Longavcsnes, the Somme front. The defeat of the German army in the battle of the Somme has progressed more rapidly during the past week than • any other corresponding period since ...