... taken them by In the result we are able to print to-day the best news which Sir Douglas Haig has sent as since the battle of the Somme died away last autumn. say advisedly the best news since then ; for all the many miles of territory whioh the enemy ...

... entitled Why attack. * the “Matin” saysi—Foreseeing that the enemy's plans consisted in es ...

... SOMME AND ARRAS BATTLES. In the eighteen days at the battle of the Somme we captured eleven prisoners and fitty.teur guns. • In the first eighteen days of the battle . of Arras we captured eighteen thousand - prisoners and two hundred and ...

... (London: Nelson.) The present volume is unique in that it is devoted entirely to narrating one epoch making episode—the Battle of the Somme. every Map ill vividly depicted, and as a whols,.the narrative is as realistic as a pen picture of such glorious and ...

... east and *oath-east. of Arras, on bob sides of the River Scarpe. A similar sequence of attack was discovered in the battle of the Somme; but, to-day the process operates on a vastly larger scale. It operates eg,iittut a continuous Irmo, from LouG to the ...

... ()h--ive. Up to the present the French used more than 30 divisions (600,000 both battlefields. After the conion of the Battle of the Somme these sions had been carefully reformed, for the projected breaking threugix oh hoped for in March!' tter-- Aisne—There ...

... 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 ...

... MAECE 11 U MS. Jacques includes the following in his notes in a recent issue of the Evening Herald':— During a battle near the Somme a Royal Irish Fuoilier named M'N— paved from drowning a little wounded French dog and nursed it back to strength. ...

... Ihay wanted to force there. And if had had thiig ambition also, who could have prevented ? But should allow another battle of the Somme! Should our true * Feldgrauen be permitted undergo the renewed Trommelfeuer the enemy the place where for months they ...

... Saturday bestowed on Mrs. Cather the V.C. won by her son, the late Lieut. G. Shillington Cather, RIF, on July 1 a the battle of the Somme. He was a Grandson of the late Mr. Thos. Shillington, Portadown. Police and a Proclaimed Meeting. The Theatre Royal ...

... elsewhere, we renewed the morning's battle between 5 p m and 6 p m, cud re-stormed the yd. age, where we found every cellar blown in by shells. Pressing thruujb, we finally lortitied a good line beyond. Since the battle of the Somme opened doubt it the Germane ...

... however, sug«e»is that o, men had got around it now. and the G- • mans are clearing out from it as la: a* they can. The battle of the Somme villages. The much big?er b »1 Arras, give the operations A\ktW\ twx> weeks distinctive nam*-. towns. There are four ...