Monday Found Our Centre Fighting On The Old Somme...
The enemy, who had by now brought seventy divisions into action, was still delivering incessant assaults of the utmost violence. Our left or northern wing still held fast, but......
Our Troops, Fighting All The Time, Effected Their...
good order on Friday night and Saturday, to a maximum depth of about fifteen miles. They evacuated the region from which the enemy retired early last year, after the battle of......
Time Serves Us In The Circumstances Better Than It Serves
the Germans. In other respects they have had all the luck. Sir Douglas Haig would have dispensed with several battalions over and over again as the price of such weather and......
Last Sunday The Enemy, Who Had Been Heavily Reinforced,...
a series of violent assaults on our new line. To the north of Bapaume he failed ; the 17th and 40th Divisions are commended for beating off repeated attacks with great loss. But......
Continuing His Onslaughts Without A Pause Throughout...
the light of the moon, and again on Friday morning, the enemy on Friday afternoon succeeded in breaking through our main positions to the west of St. Quentin. This involved a......
The German Offensive Opened At Dawn On Thursday Week With
very heavy bombardment from German and Austrian guns along sixty miles of our front from the Scarpe, east of Arras, to the Oise at La Fere. At eight o'clock dense masses of......
News Of The Week.
7 HE frantic battle which is now being fought means that 1. the Germans have staked their all upon a decision. The numbers of men which they have been throwing into the......
The Enemy's Masses, Attacking With Great Determination,...
outpost lines by sheer weight of numbers. They were mown down in thousands by our rifles and machine-guns, and our shellfire from batteries firing at point-blank range. But new......
The Paper Shortage.—we Trust That Readers Of The "...
will give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.......
