... which wo have been fighting . It expresses to all ranks hearty congratulations on tho excellent work done during tho battle of tho Somme . On thvee successive occasions , it adds , the New Zealanders attacked tho hostile positions with tho greatest gallantry ...

... great intensity upon the Vaux position . . • . Tho German retreat at Verdun is a direct and unmistakable result of tho Battle of tho Somme , a conflict the effects of which continue to be visible in every campaigning area in Europe . We are by no means at ...

... have developed and organised their resources for tlie final victory . The author's account of the first phase of ths Battle of tho Somme , with which h © concludes his book , is valuable for its description of tho tactics employed by the Allied Commandors ...

... than tha German General Staff fearod . Certain divisions returned to the lino this week for the third time sinco . thp Battle of the Somme bogan havo rested suffioiontly to begin their fresh ordeal in the mud with pronounced activity . Gaps mado in thoir ...

... Rumania are in Ger man hands . To these boasts there is a simple and destructive retort . In the first place the Battle of the Somme is not over ; it is proceeding and—as witness to-day ' s news ^—the un wavering and . unshatterable German front ...

... the British forces on both sides of the Ancre that mark out the operation as one- of the most notable episodes in the Battle of the Somme . - All these features are satisfactory and encouraging . It need hardly be said , however , that there is nothing about ...

... AUSTRALIANS AT THE BATTLE 0 * | THE SOMME . THE TDKN OF THE GERMANS . In an article sent out by tho High Commissioner for Australia , dated British Headquarters , France ,. November 13 , tho following occurs : — One remembers a day some months bad ; when ...