... ARMIES ON SOMME. BIG CONTRASTS IN CONDITION. SEVERITY OF GERMANS’ ORDEAL. REVELATIONS in letters By E. ASH,MEAD BAK I LETT. (BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH TUB • DAILY CHRONICLE.) With the French Armies (France), October 4.—The battle of the Somme never stops ...

... and the best the commissariat can run to is to supply the men with seltzer water, poor refreshment in the midst of a battle like the Somme. But there still seems any quantity of marmalade, which not the same article in England, but kind of jam made principally ...

... been recorded, was draftovl to France in February. 1915, took part in the battles at Ypres, Hooge, and Hill without injury, hut was wounded on the Ist July at battle of the Somme, and died Stockport, the 9th October was the «on Mr. W. H. Griffiths, of ...

... been the High Wood To see how much we have gained, in ! the way of laetical position, the lirst three months of the Battle if the Somme, one must look at the map of area much larger than the battlefield itself. Most of ns have had our tjyes fixed, till ...

... sentimental interest attaching to wlu*ii it was obvious that the Ccrman offensive had been definitely • beginning of the battle ••I ; I; ...

... and will probably continue to be known, history as the battle of the Somme, it is really series of giant, conflicts, in any one of which the losses may be heavier than in the well-known battles of a hundred yejrs ago. A series of Homeric fights is continually ...

... GERMANS ABLE TO MOVE ONLY AT NIGHT. War Correspondents’ Camp, France, Saturday.—The defeat of the German Army in (he battle of the Somme has progressed more rapidly during the past week than any other corresponding petiod since the big offensive began. ...

... pressure has become more powerful, the strain harder to bear. If General von Arnim were to write a second report the battle of the Somme for August and September it would be more gloomy document than this. But what he has written stands, and it is frightful ...

... sending 'n your Majesty and to your gallant heartiest greetings upon their last magnificent achievements in the great battle of tho Somme. September, 1916; NTciiowA' To the Emperor, Imperial r;adquartcrs, In the name of Army and on own behalf I heartily ...

... long and critical report by general Sixt von Arnim, commanding the 4,1,’ tiermau Corps, against the British (snl the battle of the Somme during July, ft is important historical document. 'Hie Herman general has written great soldier writes his own suhwci ...

... tale, but was just one those grim bits of lighting, damnably dangerous, and ugly, and cheerless, which belong to the battle of the Somme. The first part I have already told, two days ago—how our men, in their attack the double line of trenches outside the ...

... has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in bringing up bombs and ammunition under heavy fire during the battle of the Somme. Lieut. Mackinnon is a distinguished Soccer Blue, representing ! Oxford in inter-varsity matches and on the 1 Continent ...