... Tepresenting a portion of the million awaiting notioe, A million men are at the present time undergoing for the battle front. jae Somme the Germans atlackel pops on Friday with at oe ons and fighting was very pares of this front as as about midway pp) ...

... give an authorita- tive view of the battle situation as it presents itself at this moment The front north of the Somme had already become stable at the end of last week, but the position south of the river was The battle not then free from anxiety. of Montdidier ...

... lopped trees, and frightful smell arise from, relics of battles two weeks »yu their men are very wretched—here in this valley of death, for it was that— and behind in the old fields of the Somme the German troops have no ver from storms of shell-fire ...