... REDOUBLED GUNFIRE. Most Violent Bombardment of Somme Battle. Coinciding with lift in the stormy weather of the past week, the intensity the cannonade on the British front has redoubled since Saturday. Snow, however, has now begun to fall (says a Daily ...

... the bombardment has reached violence exceeding anything experienced in the whole battle of the Somme. FRENCH. An attack on the French trenches at Lassigny, between the Somme and the Oise, failed. Some enemy fractions obtained a footing in the advanced elements ...