... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LONDON DAY BY DAY. (From Our Own Correspondent ) Fleet Street, Friday Night. THE German hurrahing over the end of the Battle of the Somme is not very timely. I suppose the enemy General Staff sent out their reassurances to gull their home public. They will ...