... JOHN BUCHAN'S The BATTLE OF THE SOMME (Nelson's History of the War, Vol 16) DESCRIBES THE SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR ARMIES IN SHATTERING THE GERMAN WESTERN LINE. Ready to-day. Cloth- Price net ...

... people. True, tho first day of the Battle of Arras has yielded many more pri- soners than did the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and that, so far as it goes, is encouraging; but the three months’ Battle of the Somme. while it forced ...

... d Officers, and Men the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Leeds Pal*), who so eallantly and died for their conntry the Battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. BURN'TSTON'.—In proud and menjory our nearly loved, only son and brother, HARRY BUKISriSTOV. Private ...

... of modern armies and modern battles. To these of little faith—and indeed to all who desire to follow the present titanic struggle with some measure of instructed judgment—may be commended the study the Battle of the Somme. In the numbers of the combatants ...

... was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres, 11th May, 1915. aged years and that the rigfit panel: ?Also of Harold William Cottrell. Se'.-Lieut.. S, Lancashire Kegt., who was killed in action the Battle of the Somme, September, 1916, aged 18 years: ...

... co ON T When “The Battle of the Somme” was shown for the last time at the Scala Theatre, London, on day, the samo filin had been through tho projecting machine 250 The run is the longest known in the history of films, and proves that one copy will last ...

... Staffs, who wero asking them what lessons should be drawn from the battle of the Somine. According to’a report seed from the Ger- mans, M. Barres says, at the inning of the battle of the Somme we placed the Germans in a position of extreme peril. Until May ...

... The despatch, too, shows how military ecience is evolving under pressure of actual warfare. “ At the beginning cf the battle of the Somme Sir Henry Rawiinson was Sir Douglas Haig commanded et the beginning of the war.” After July ist part of his force was ...

... NATURE'S MAGIC So here, even now, many of the first-line trenches which stormed on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, are already crumbling in, parapet and parados conspiring together to fill up and obliterate the ugly gash of the trench itself ...

... Association), that oertain music halls were unfairly competing with the picture houses exhibiting lengthy films, such The Battle of the Somme and The Defence of Verdun, lasting about hour, instead of using the cinema merely aa minor turn in their ordinary ...

... village iii country. Nistjor Watson had been previously wounded in the battle of the Somme and only rejoined his battalion last April and was in command of his company at the battle of Nfessines. He was home on leave last month, when he was promoted ,temporary ...

... and doing their best to overcome the gloom by their persistent good spirits. Since Battle of the Somme, the most important fighting these battalions have done was the Battle Arras in May this year. They wei'e then round about Gavrelle, and had very stiff ...