... shown that gradual penetration of the enemy’s lines tends in time to bring about strategical change. We know that the Battle of the Somme, after many months, compelled an enemy retirement all the way between Arras and Soissons, and that this retirement, ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, Depicting the Great Advance. Everybody phould see this 'Wonderful Picture. SPECIAL MUSIC. BOOK EARLY. E U M, SPI T L HILL. ’©.SO and 9. Box Office 10 to 12, 2 to 4. Tel. 1667 Matinee to-day at 2.50. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, - Reels ...

... see the carved oak table from shelled Nrras used Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters throughout the battle of the Somme. Upon this table every Army Order was signed, every report, examined, and upon it the Cpnmiander-in-Chief wrote those ...

... A FIRST SOMME BATTLE SURVIVOR. Major A. Plackett, who has been manager of the Harrogate branch of the Midland Bank since 1917, has received important appointment under the Bank in large industrial town in the Midlands. He is a native of Leeds, and formerly ...

... DR. a. COLVILLE WILSON. in the battle of the Somme. He was invalided home and, after being in hospital at Manchester, he served for a time as medical officer at Brockton Camp. On recovery from his wounds he went out with the Egypt Expeditionary Force ...

... THE GERMAN LIMIT. From the point of view of German resistance the battle of the Somme has reached a most critical phase, for there is ground for the belief, telegraphs the ‘‘Daily News special corre•pondent at Rotterdam, that unless within a very short ...

... Brigadier-General R. E. Sugden, and Dr. W, R. Dickinson. FATEFUL JULY Ist. Somme Heroes Commemorated at Rotherham. The service in memory of those who fell in the Battle of the Somme, which was held yesterday at the Cenotaph, Clifton Park, Rotherham, attracted ...

... ground that has been taken from it during an offensive that in prtigress. These distinctions arc not hard and fast- Our Battle of the Somme, for example, was in a sense a counter-offensive, for one its main purposes was to relieve the pressure on Verdun. Again ...

... rustling. Many a grim “pill box” with wide eye recalled those fierce battles of Arras of 1916 and 1917, the fight on Vimy Ridge, the pressing back of the enemy, the terrific battle of the Somme. The air was stilled this afternoon, but in those retreating but ...

... SOMME MEMORIES. Sheffield Tributes to Fallen Sons. CATHEDRAL SERVICE, Sheffield paid tribute yesterday to the heroism of the gallant men of the City Battalion who fell in the battle of the Somme on July ist, 1916, and impressive services were held in ...

... V’scount Chetwynd said he was made Companion of Honour. That ■was in respect the supoly of shells which brought about the Battle of the Somme. Mr. Justice Tomlin commented on the long delay in presenting the claim. It seemed to him doubtful whether the claim ...

... the present battle, in which the British and the French in close co-operation have taken tht initiative, differs entirely in its methods from the battle on the Somme on the Ist July, 1916 and the following days and for this reason the Somme the Allies ...