... SOMME RESULTS. I’OWEU THE EEW BRITISH ARMY. GERMAN FAILURES. semi official message trom Pans, dealing with the successes in Prance, and particularly with the Battle the Somme, points out that the pow er of the new British Army, whose strength is daily ...

... upon the publication of the Somme dispatch—a report in which Sir Douglas played the modest part of a recorder of the deeds of others. But everyone knew in reading it, and knew before reading it, that the victor of the Somme is a born leader of men and ...

... work in connection with j City Council and the Sheffield Univers' Sheffield has come out very well ind( these great battles on the Somme. The Rest Room. We should like to call special attentio the letter* in our Correspondence Cob referring to the collection ...

... organised for war work. Of course there were blunders and muddles and failures : but Field Marshal Haig’s report on the battle of the Somme is the best testimony to what has come out of the chaos, thanks to the grit and determination behind the Ministry. The ...

... on the Somme lies in the fact that they were made to the amazement of the enemy just after the French Army had beaten off the greatest assault which the enemy had ever been able to deliver. During the first fortnight of the battle of the Somme, the French ...

... cinematography. The film of The Battle of the Somme w 7 as wonderful enough, but The Battle of the Ancre, and the advance of the Tanks is more marvellous, though the War Office censors have cut out the gruesomeness which makes the Somme film an uncomfortable, ...

... it. They knew what they were fighting for, and they knew they could achieve it, and they believed worth while. The battle of the Somme had opened the eyes of Germany, and she saw defeat in front of her. > ...

... and was present at the evacuation. I.ater he went to Egypt and afterwards to France, where fought'through the great battle of the Somme. is the youngest, son of the late Mr. G. P. Wincott, furnace builder and engineer, and prior to the war was employed ...

... films last evening. At Messrs. Vickers’ works, within hearing of the clanging hammers, the official war pictures of the Battle of the Somme were being shown, to a large concourse of workmen to whom Sergeant Ratcliffe Holmes, H.L.1., explained the various points ...

... Colonel X. points out that the same trials of strength preceded the battle of the Somme from June to July 1, iqi6, when the British troops executed no fewer than 70 raids from Ypres to the Somme. The Allies recognise as clearly (says the critic) as do the Germans ...

... agency of Lord Fisher. One might as well argue that because Lord Kitchener died last June he had nothing do with the Battle of the Somme. The correspondent goes on to imply that the present Board is not dealing successfully with submarines, and gives what ...

... Pte. OHAS. DOUGLAS Pto. H. Booth, Y. and SHAW, L.NX. Rest., L., Hceley, Sheffield. Sheffield. Ivilled. Wounded. THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME. PIIILIR GIBBS’ NEW BOOK vri-itor has been more successful than Philip Gibbs in revealing what, in his previous book ...