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The New Combined British And French Offensive Which Has...

such splendid results on the Somme began on Monday after a long and terrific bombardment. On that day the British troops took the highly important positions of Morval and Les......

On Tuesday We Took Combles In Conjunction With The French,

and —what was less expected—ThiepvaL Thiepval had been a thorn to us since the beginning of the " push." Combles was the scene of the Kaiser's ecstatic joy early in the war,......

On Wednesday The British And French Advance Continued...

results. The total number of prisoners taken on Monday and Tuesday was about five thousand. The correspondent of the Times says that since the beginning of July sixty-five......

News Of The Week.

/11HE news from France is the best we have had since the begin- ning of the war. Our daily successes in overcoming the most complicated and formidable obstacles ever placed in......

Since The Beginning Of July Not A Single German...

has succeeded in regaining and holding captured positions for more than a few hours. In some cases counter-attacks have not even been attempted. To conquer the moral of the......

For We Have Fairly Taken The Measure Of The Germans.

Our men know that they themselves and their French comrades are better fighting men. The fact is so obvious now that congenital pessimists even begin to wonder at their former......

The Hopes Of Germany Founded On Her Diversion M The

Dobrudja seem to have evaporated already. Several Russian divisions joined the Rumanians, and Mackensen was not only checked but driven back more than twelve miles. The report......

The German Official Report Issued On Monday, When The Fall

of Combles and Thiepval was inevitable, was most curious. It said :— " The results which the enemy obtained to the east of Eaucourt- rAbbaye and by the capturing of the villages......

On Sunday Last Two French Airmen, Captain De Beauchamp@ And

Lieutenant Daucourt, made a successful flight—two hundred and fifty miles each way—to Essen, the seat of Krupp's works, and returned safely after dropping bombs. The raid is......

Our Newspapers Have Been Crowded With Narratives And...

during the week about the Zeppelin raids. A visitor who knew nothing of the circumstances of the war might have been persuaded to believe on this evidence that the raids were a......

We Have Written Fully Elsewhere Of The Grave Crisis Which

has overtaken Greece owing to the aimed incredibly mistaken policy which has been pursued at Athens. The source and origin of the ,hole trouble has been the denial to the Greek......