... enemy’s losses in this prolonged Battle of the Somme. No estimate ig attempted of tbe number men killed, but are told that up to the end the month the prisoners captured by the British since the beginning of the battle totalled 31,132. That is a remarkable ...

... Blackburn, Darwen. and Preston. The men have had most try mgr and arduous time, having been engaged all through the battle of the Somme, and they are etill the fighting line. As this will their eecond Christmas the front, I feci sure their fellowtownsmen ...