... the Earl Reading and Yiscount Milner. Captain Charles Craig, M.P., who was wounded, and made prisoner July, 1916, tho Battle of tho Somme, returned the House of Commons yesterday, and was heartily congratulated by members all parties on his release. The ...

... drafts, and he- endeavouring make drafts with least, two divisions infantry and some Austrian has put into present battle north the Somme divisions, of which lea&t. t.wjoe. Some h» assault battalions storm troops have also up' for the purpose jf forming ...

... greatly interfered with operations in the air. Our reported the progress of tho battle south of Somme, and demy's troops the German machines which appeared this part the battle front six were down our aeroplanes and one was shot down by our anti-aircraft ...

... thfe Germans, now that they are on the offensive, are very fairly consistent in their treatment of units. During the battle of the Somme in many cases divisions were allowed to bleed to death. We know that several lost 8000 men —their total complement— ...

... But so long as process development extremely dangerous and disorganising. The salient driven in by our troops 'he battle of the Somme in process development, and the Germans were forced to retreat 12-20 miles to save thejneelves. Had they been then a ...

... artillery. When was stated on Saturday last that the situation north of the Somme was s able, heavy fighting was then going on the Moreuil-Lassigny front, which may be described as the battle of Amiens, and the result was still uncertain. That front, it may safely ...

... troops in the 1916 battle, when just, over a third of territory was gained, and when took thirty times as long to gain it. have won in the pest four days more than the French and British Armies won the whole of the battle of the Somme two years ago. Formerly ...

... onslaught It is also no violation of the censorship to announce that the American Government fully realise that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that the American may possibly be the means tipping the scale. Every officer of the ...

... After eighteen days in the trenches here, the battalion enjoved a spell of eight days out. A week later the memorable Battle of the Somme opened, with every gun on a front of twenty-five miles speaking, and speaking without pause. This battalion of the ...

... 1915, is because all our successes, their entirety, were not equivalent in military value the Battle the Marne or the First Battle Ypree alone. By the Battle Chapel! (March 10; 11, and 12) our troops by magnificent heroism gained patoh of ground atout ...

... of the enemy is against our lute in those desolate tracts of Picardy, across which the Germans retreated after the battles of the Somme. Here j his tactical nor territorial gains can be much j value, and it would almost appear possible that i spectacular ...

... British Campaigns in France and FLanders ; Colonel Murray's ' Fortnigbtdy ' History of the 'War ; Philip Gibe's Battles of the Somme; and Lord Narthcliffe'e At the War. For some reason op other biographies have had a conspicuous place in the lists ...