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WAR POSSIBILITIES

... expended a tithe the force employed hr Germany in the effott to capture a single fortress. The Battle of Verdun was a uieunry for France: the •• Battle of the Somme. - a struggle almost as extended in point of time and even more remarkable in ita sits&aun'd ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1917
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Norman’s,

... OOO year was more suitable than the Ulster Hall. Trulv “wisdom was justified of her children.'’ (Laughter.) After the battle of the Somme, with the heroic deeds of tho Ulster Division ringing throughout the world, tho gift of the municipality of Belfast ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1917
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MORNING EXPRESS

... During Somme Offensive. THE DEVIL WAS SICK.” Tie Morning Pobl,” dieewfioing the Kaiser letter hia Imperial ChaEccllor, points out .that ite date, if it m correctly quoted, eignificant, for it coincides with the '.aet weeks of the Battle of the Somme in which ...

Published: Tuesday 16 January 1917
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COMMITTEE'S REPORT

... Street, rental £I.OCO a year, was more suitable than the Ulster Hall. Truly Wisdom Is justified her children.” After'the battle of the Somme, with the heroic deeds Ulster Division ringing throuabout the world, the gift of the municipality of Belfast to her ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1917
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1069 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Enemy Prospects

... advance has begun. The German people may still remain under the illusion fostered by their military superiors that the battle of the Somme was merely an offensive that collapsed, but the German General Staff know the truth of Sir Docgus Haig’s words when ...

Published: Monday 15 January 1917
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1163 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CRAICATINPIN HALL

... youthful guests. There are nine young men who belong to the School serving in the army; three of them were wounded in the battle of the Somme—Joseph Doherty, Joseph Laverty, and George Boyd. Doherty is still In hoa pital in England; but the latter two wen able ...