... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. A long despatch from Sir Douglas Haig reviewing the whole Battle of the Somme is published to-day. It is the official narrative not only of the greatest battle in which the British Army has ever been engaged but of ...

... &ypt, taking part in the desert operations. Thence he went to France, fig! in somel of the most dnfieuu attacks ‘in the Battle of the Somme. News has now arrived that he was killed in action on November 9th. He was 25 years of age. , ...

... push” in the West, by massing thousands of troops there, and eending out vast quantities of ammunition. On guly 1 the battle of the Somme openad, and on the first day the German frout was broken on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mametz were taken ...