... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE TANKS IN THE TIMES HISTORY. Part 138 (Volume Xi.) of The Time* History and Encyclopedia of the War, which will be published to-morrow, continues the story of the Battle of the Somme. - - - - The narrative opens on the eve of ...

... CLOSE OF SOMME FLOUTING. FINAL OPERATIONS DESCRIBED IN 'THE TIMES HISTORY. Put lel (Volume XI.) of The History and Biteclopiedis of the War concludes the dory of the Battle of the Somme, being the mirth part devoted to this phase of the _great Frantm-British ...

... the present the French Command has used more than 30 divisions on the two battlefields. After the conclusion of the Battle of the Somme these divisions had been carefully reformed ready for the projected breaking-through attack and the hoped-for march ...

... other parts of the Front the intelligence is also good, and it is curious how closely events are following those of the battle of the Somme, except that our initial success is, of course, much greater, vastly worse for the enemy, and less costly to ourselves ...

... the last 111 days of the Battle of the and the OM lg digs of this battle. I have just had these figures. In the first 19 days of the Battle of the Sesame we captured 11,000_prizoners 54 guns. In the first 18 days of the Battle of we captured 18,800 prisoners ...

... the Some people thought that the 1t..t.31.r. was without danger, but they . more than 400 doctors were killedl ei the battle of the Somme alone. At.l nu, xe were lamentably short of doctors utoch had to be done now and the! • afraid would have to be done ...

... missing. •Tb , nieasure of Monday's suocess may be ' l 'o4 by the fart that in his night dispatch I. the first day of the Battle of the Somme, ‘ b. Haig repo rt od that up to date over 2,000 , pntoners have passed through our ml- Ong stations. and that it ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... what one It is a fact that our casualties have been very light. The contrast to the attack of the first day of the Battle of the Somme is extraordinary. I have visited clearing stations where all preparations had been made for handling immense numbers ...

... French. Despite all this, the Belgians heartily rejoice when they hear of such incidents as the passing, after the Battle of the Somme, of long trains loaded with German dead tied up with wire in bundles. They do not believe a word of the German communiques ...