... 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 ...

... lines. Peronne and Bapaume were both being outflanked by the steady creep forward to bhe east of the British lines. The battle of the Somme taught the Germans that they were mot strong enough to keep back the British advance; that superiority in shell and ...

... turn became apparent during the course of last year, hoth in the initial }sta,ges of the hattle of Verdun and at the battle of the Somme. To-day it looks as though a new era was opening., in which ithe competition in aerial construction will assume a degree ...

... was won on the anniversary of the day on which the rival armies on the Wegtern front joined issue In the memorghle battle of the Somme. On Sunday the Russian Southern Army Suc?'denly assumed the offensive, and fought with such ardour that In the course ...

... and thence across the Rhine. The retrograde German movement which began after the battle of the Somme had been fought and won has continued ever since, and the battles for Vimy Ridge and for Wytschaete have accelerated its pace. It 1s only a matter of ...

... at least half as much ground as was actu- |“as broken by the foam of a bir 1 vhole battle of the Somme, and acdds:— looming up. More followed, ar ol ; destroyers. battle cruisers, ! o i fall the results ,may be stealing along. atiife. silently, ‘ffi:? ing ...

... the reasoning of the French expert commentator seems plausible. He connects the present retreat with the Battle of the Somme last year. On the Somme the German Armies were sorely pressed, an+ though they did not {lield a great extent of ground, still there ...

... afterwards served per score : in France, where both were wounded in hcngltgg‘v.2M/s_r_c2=’h?‘?;-.!'hxio’:. L’Liahzl}gfg the battle of the Somme. One was sent doad bumfin‘olg;. to ‘2’B’-' Finnan haddoc' s t 0 a hospital at Norwich and the other 28;6:‘11::: lgu/%§ ...

... main advance; our Third Army has gained between a half and three-fifths as much ground as ‘was captured during tle Battle of the Somme. ] The importance of the strategic possibilities which are brought within sight as the result of the smashing of the ...

... disintegration. = Locally and temporarily they have declined in moral in consequence of defeats, motably after the battles on the Somme; but they have recovered, and show no apparent signs of failing to respond when called upon ta take the offensive, ...

... had 17 months’ pretty stiff fighting at the front. The biggest fights I tock part in were the battles of the Somme last year and this year at the Ancre Battle. Our job is maintaining the cables, which we often repair under the most severe fire—quite apart ...