... SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME. SECOND EDITION cou MAGNIFICENT STAND BY OUR TROOPS. With the British Armies, Monday Night. The second battle of the Somme is being fought by armies the open. Along the flaming front from the wilderness above Bapaume across ...

... LONDON LETTER. THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. PROBABILITY OF TURKISH ATTACK IN PALESTINE. (By Courier Special Wire.) Thomson House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., Monday. July i, the anniversary of the Somme attack, has passed very quietly, ...

... wounded in the shoulder by a missile from aeroplane, and on his recovery returned activo duty. While engaged in the battle of the Somme was buried alive and sustained severe shock and injuries to his system that he was sent to a Dome hospital. He received ...

... Staff on June 21 declared that tho Allies began the battle of the Somme 1918 with 75 divisions of infantry and 6 cavalry divisions, and that the Germans brought up more than 110 divisions. In other battles the proportion was the same. The onemv therefore ...

... men under your command their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied arms this the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to you and your most gallant troops. ...

... further colossal effort. r y and reserves ready f °R the battle. Courier Soecial Wire.) . v?'° House, 12 Fetter Lane, e l&ll • eet treet E.C., Tuesday. 5 t the fighting on the great battle lQ ie Somme is probably the pre'tt ' an ou tburst of renewed \ior'^it ...

... 6 railwa ys at Metz which were 0n '' 'iesday night doubtless play a v.,th ,' n Ludendorfi's plan of campaign. great battle of the Somme, s olrilll enced on March 21 ? the Ger- : ' one genuine surprise on the v wester ° front. It was that Was really responsible ...

... first come into Belgium, and its record is stained with the crimes of Termonde and Louvain. It took part th'e first battle of the Somme, and in the recent Lys fighting its casualties have been exceedingly heavy. One of the prisoners, man of considerable ...

... after the series of battles which began 21st March the whole front from Arras down to the Oise has reached a position of stability. Series Gigantic Battles. We are now at the beginning of ApiiL Already have had series of gigantic battles, and have only arrived ...

... BACK TO THE OLD LINE. VIOLENT BATTLE IN FORMER SOMME DEFENCES. BRITISH CLEARING THE GERMANS FROM HAVRINCOURT WOOD. The Allied troops continue to make satis-' factory progress. The British have gained possession of practically the whole of Havrincourt ...

... but by cutting down Prince Rupprecht's command. The new Commandant General O'Berst von who distinsniishpd himself in the Somme battles of 1916. Born in 1850, he got his commission in the 3d Foot Guards Regiment at the age of 17. In the Franco-German War ...

... that he has seen service along tiie whole length of the British front, being in the battles of Festubert, Somme, Beaumont Hamel, Arras, and Ypres. After the third battle of Ypres he received from the Major-General commandirig the division with which he ...