... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. GERMANS DECLARE IT IS ENDED. AD Amsterdam message says: The German papers are being instructed to declare that lie Somme battle is really finished. They state tint the German positions are stronger sow Qom they we-re on July Ist ...

... says the article, cannot be satisfied by victory on alone: — To be sure, England has compromisedlf opeaing up tie big battle on the Somme, awl—as we hnve always insisted in these columns—the conquest of Belgittin. especially of the Flanders coast, is a feet ...

... push” in the West, by massing thousands of troops there, and scnding out vast quantities of ammunition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the first day the German front was brokem on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mametz were taken ...