... measured, it constitutes for the Allies a most favourable omen. It is the direct though belated outcome of the memorable Battle of the Somme, which is thus removed for ever from the realm of controversy. If the Germans are sloaly moving backward at one point ...

... FEBRUARY 3, 1917. r there because they knew there were men behind prepared to help them. (Cheers.) What happened great battle of the Somme came.. These men had mobilized the whole of the engineering resources of the country. Old workshops grew to life, new ...

... the German of the battle of the Somme : Farewell. comrades. you who must sleep on the Somme! You were our firm defence. Every grave. mound is a bufwark. AS Was the body which it covers. Your name' ire snmea Farewell, comrades of the Somme The children In ...

... rapid tel in two days the Third Army has gained at hat half as much ground as was actually capsized during the whole battle of the Somme; and seize inclined to think that the total is nearer Mee-fifths. It is not a very important point, let sic note it ...

... manner in which the preparatums for the battle were conducted, and helps to understand why it is that onlookers declare the preliminary work to have been even more elaborate and complete than at the battle of the Somme last year. Considerinc the difficult ...

... highly satisfactory figures, representing as they do the aftermath of the Battle of the Somme. An enemy writer has just cryptically observed that the children in Germany say 'Somme,' and they know that word is fate. It is indeed, and if the admissions ...

... and that prisoners in good numbers are already coming in. It was like the days of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme again, and the Battle of Arras, if that Li what it is to be called, may prove no leas disaatrons to the Germans. A FRONT OF FLAME ...

... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is IS times lees than it wee in the Battle of the Somme. with the result that Sir Douglas the other day paid a high tribute to tile quality of ammunition. ...

... per cent, within the year, and that the number of duds and of premature explosions has greatly decreased since the Battle of the Somme. We are getting back the runt nil of products like potash, and of manufactures such as optic glass, which the enemy ...

... No troops have clone sterling work with less fuss and notoriety than the Welshmen. During last summer, before the Battle of the Somme, the hulk of the Welsh troops performed long and testing service, holding, with obstinate courage, one of the most difficult ...

... thanks to their effort:, the enemy has nowhere been able to achieve a success of any importance by mining. During the battle of the Somme the work of the Tunnelling Companies contributed in no 'small degree to the successful issue of several operations. ...

... of munitions. This movement is similar to that which was initiated by Hindenburg last summer, as a result of the . Battle of the Somme, but it should be noted that the German Government is getting to work earlier this year. For the present the coal problem ...