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... OTTHE SOMME. 18-INCH HOWITZERS. PROJECTILES THAT WEIGH TON. Mr Bach Thomas, Daily Mail, gives a graphic description of the tremendous artillery fire that preceded latest British attack on the Somme : * We fought to-day comparatively small 'battle, and ...