... 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 ...

... colonel and 2.573 men. SOMME OFFENSIVE. General Joffre On its Object and Result. NO HALT TO BE MADE. (Press Association War Special.) PARIS. Tuesday. Writing to-night on the subject the Order the Day addressed by General Joffre to the Somme troops, and published ...

... worked at St. Leonard's Saturday, It was dressed by Canon Johnson. BATTLE OF THE SOMME.—Large house are gathering the Grand Theatre during first half this week to see The battle the Somme. The audiences ar-> being deenl impressed with the vivid scenes ...

... Division fresh ' from Iille whi-h they hare been holding since Sep tember 1914 and that the division put into this battle of the Somme small Englih giants looked biq him iri those of excitement was-one says 'arm tmmt hiah I ahotild glance I had him ...