... than the baton of a Field- Marshal. Sir Douglas Haig has now given vears’ invaluable service to the thirty Army. “Ihe Battle of the Somme alone has earned him the right to the highest rank in the Armv. ...

... STORY OF OUR SOMME VICTORY TOLD BY SIR Ne] How the New Armies Proved Themselves. COMMANDER’S GLOWING TRIBUT HALF THE GERMAN ARMY DEFEATED. Sir Dougias Haig’s deepatch deeorihing the battle of the Somme was imued by the War Office last night. Below we ...

... enemy’s strength had been very considerably worn down. Any ono of th ese three results is in itself sufficient t oO fy the Somme battle. The atta:nment. ‘all three of them affords ample compensation for the splendid efforts of our made by ourselves and our ...

... on the Somme, and got into the French second and third lines, cap- turing over 200: prisoners. According to the Paris account, only one French trench was penetrated. Sir Douglas Haig’s des tch, pub- lished to-day, tells the story of the battle of the ...