... SEILLIANT SUCTUESS: NINETEER ViLLAGES RETAKEN. PEENOH SEMEOFFICIAL. Prews V-sociation War Special.) Paris, Wednesday. The battle of the Somme, although violent storm to ...

... Hand-to-hand fighting and bombing continues betweca the Ancre and the Somme. five hundred more prisoners have been taken by us since the number last reported BIGGEST WESTERN BATTLE. GERMAN DMASSER RUSHING UP FROM OTHER FRONTS (Press Association War Special ...

... German point of view, as gathered from Vendin . douv 14 Veording to vers exaet information our | prisoners taken in the battle of the Somme. wmses have s small One village was e aaid the Germans, more particularly the taken withonut the Joss ol 4 ...

... vould be in a position to make an advance south of the Somme, or, for that matter, north of the Somme. The French have captured over 9,000 prisoners, and a large number of gurs. Indeed, south of the Somme one army |corpc claims sixty guns, or ten hatteries ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR “The first stage of the battle of the Somme has come to an end,” says a semi-officiai :nessage ‘rom DParis yesterday, and it affords a justification ‘or examining the general situation. lln the first place we are able to regard ...

... BRITISH MAKE PROGRESS SECOND PHASE OF SOMME BATTLE. _IMPORTANT POSITIONS CAPTURED ! {Press.A ssociation War Special) Paris, Saturday. Y- semfoficial statement issued last might ayss— The.main feature to-day was the resumption of the offensive by the British ...

... in BKurope. | It has been said that Neuve Chapelle and |Loos were the initiation of the mew British ! Armies; the battle of the Somme has supremely proved our volunteer soldiers to be worthy of | the most eplendid British traditions. My per(sonal interest ...

... inclemency of the weather, made further notable progress on the Somme yesterday. After the calm of the day before, the French !imopl again went inlo action on the extreme ieft wing north of the Somme, in the sector where occurs our junction with the British ...

... organisation in Lurope. “It has been said that Neuve Chapelle aud Loos were the initiation of the mew British Armies; the battle of the Somme has supremely proved our volunteer soldiers to be wortuy of the most splendid British traditions. My personal interest ...

... DEALING WITH THE WOUNDED “The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of the German forces. Our hospital arrangements have bheen superb. [ do not helieve the ...

... INFANTRY. (Press Association War Special.) War Correspondents’ Headquarters, France, July Sth. When the history of the battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true perspective | think it will be found .that one of the most brilliant facets in this ...

... the New Zealand Foree. War Correspondents’ Headquarters, , France, July 2nd. The great battle of the Somme along an extended front became really a series of battles, end some of the fiercest fighting has taken ‘ph.(e in the vicinity of the hattered rillfl( ...