... received. Arrangements are being made for an early issue of co(f_les of Field-Marshal Sir Don%l:s Haig’s dispatch on the Battle of the Somme to the troops in France The Secretary of H.M. Office of Works announces that the letter by Lord hitchener appealing ...

... part of both belligerent groups is that trench raids of an exactly similar character were the preliminaries of the battle of the Somme. It may be recalled that in the week before that great conflict the British troops carried out at least 70 raids along ...