... victory nearer and hasten the day of deliverance. THE FIGHTING ON THE SOMME. HUNDREDS OY C4ERMAN BATTALIONS ENGAGED. Paris, September 28. In a resume of the operations on the Somme up to the 17th instant the Bulletin des Armees says : We have taken thirty ...

... won during the six months between Avocourt and Eix. The account proceeds: The battle of the Somme has destroyed the German will to conquer before Verdun. As the Somme battle has developed the German attacks on Verdun have become weaker and 7 weaker, and ...

... are but a beginning. The Battle of the Somme is a most desperate one as the Germans are not yielding their carefully organised positions without the greatest resistance; events have clearly established the fact that on the Somme no more than anywhere else ...

... ent writing from the British Headquarters France says: This is the eighty-sixth day since the opening of the great battle of the Somme. The only possible parallel with the fighting during this period which the world's history has to offer is the superb ...

... addressed by General Joffre to the Somme troops on September 29, and published yesterday, the expert French Commentator says: It sets forth the object and result of the French offensive. On the one hand the battle of the Somme has freed Verdun, on the other ...

... we must prepare. A. fourth winter however would be a, proof that grave errors had been committed by the Allies. The Battle of the Somme, after a hundred days, has given us an advance of fifteen kilometres, and there are fifteen kilometres more to be gained ...

... the contrary, does not speak to a nation that requires any oratorical medicine. He might have waxed eloquent upon the Battle of the Somme, in which the ...

... bombarded until the majority of the 30- cupants were killed. He says: One of the most important lessons drawn from the battle of the Somme is that under heavy methodical artillery fire the front line should be only thinly held, but by reliable men and a few ...

... needs of his corps, General von Arnim asks for all kinds of equipment: The reports on the experience gained in the battle of the Somme submitted to corps headquarters unanimously agree as to the necessity for an increased, allotment of weapons, means ...

... insists that hereafter he must be trained to the highest possible degree of self-reliance. The laesons learned in the battle of the Somme cover many pages. No detail is too minute for General von Arnim. He analyses the defeats of his men with characteristic ...

... ] We fought today a comparatively small battle, and yet I suppose never in the world's history has artillery answered artillery in such number and power. One may say the same of every recent battle on the Somme. The darkness of a dark autumn day fell ...

... Slam:own, writing in the VosBisehe Zeitung, says that Our enemies look upon the battle of the Somme as inconclusive, and that therefore We Germans may look upon it as a battle won by us. How characteristically German! If Captain von Slazmann really knows ...