... The Battle the Somme. The stupid idea has been put forth, by one or two commentators on the war that the Battle of the Somme has ended ineffectively. It has certainly not ended ineffectively,,and there no sign that it has ended at all. Fong pauses are ...

... Herdman, who desire the endowment to bo a memorial to their son, George Andrew Herdman. who was killed in action at tho battle of the Somme on July Ist. earnest student of nature and deeply interested in scientific investigation.” ...

... Combles and Thiepval fell and the tanks began to roam about the German trenches. Air Mastery. Thus not only did the Battle of the Somme gain its strategic ends; it made manifest pronounced tactical superiority of the Allies over the enemy. The Germans ...

... THE SOMME DUEL. STRONG GERMAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE? PARIS, Monday. The correspondent of the “Liberte” on the Somme front says : The mutual bombardment noted in the last British roriimuniijite is one of the most violent since the beginning of the battle of ...

... Special Correspondent.) Sir Douglas Haig's report on the Battle of the Somme happens to have been published just at a time when a surpassingly-impudent German assertion is being made that the battle has ended in victory for the enemy. The note was struck ...

... delay please forward wrapper with complaint. ftkgraplj. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916. OUR GREATEST BATTLE. Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch on the battle of the Somme, which we print this morning, is a plain, straightforward statement of fact which enables us to ...

... who recently retuiped from the front after twelve months’ service, and being wounded twice, at Festubert and in the battle of the Somme. Dr. Pettigrew’s daughters are: Mrs. Kirkpatrick, wife of Dr. Kirkpatrick; Mtr A. Wainwright, of Conisborough: and the ...

... perhaps, save in the thrashings given by the Russians to the Austrians in and 1916. and on some red-letter days in the Battle of the Somme. The French superiority is not be accounted for by advantage in numbers. The French had four divisions, the Germans ...

... Colonel Duncombe gave an interesting account of the .A.D. work in the West Riding during the last six months. When the battle of the Somme began there was a large shortage of nurses in the military hospitals, not fewer than 500, and reply to an appeal they ...

... trifle too conscientious. There is sufficient material for two books. Messrs. Tvclson and Sons have published at Is. The Battle of the Somme, First Phase,” by Mr. John Buchan. His clear and succinct description is admirably illustrated _ with official photographs ...

... with some of the best athletes we had (says the “Sheffield Year Book” article on the part played by local men in the battle of the Somme). But some got forward. Big “Bob” Seymour —Arabic interpreter on* shilling day in Egypt—found himself held up by tough ...

... German communique reporting the resumption of the French successes on the Meuse, Major. Moraht writes : The extinct battle of the Somme has not yet revived here, and in the Meuse sector the lighting is restricted more or loss ivid artillery fire. After ...