On Monday The Enemy Made A Second Attempt On A
still greater scale. He attacked on the ten-mile front from Meteren, west of Bailleul, to Voormezeele, employing no fewer than thirteen divisions. Sir Douglas Haig entrusted the......
It May Be That The Enemy's Effort South Of The
Somme was designed as a diversion. He may, on. the other hand, wish to deliver his sledge-hammer strokes alternately in the two salients. At any rate, on Thursday week he......
The Tactical Importance Of Kemmel Hill Is Evident, But The
mere possession of the hill by the enemy is not in itself decisive. It seems, indeed, that the hilltop is deluged with shells from the Allied batteries and with bombs and......
Sir Douglas Haig, Who Has Had Nothing To Report Since
Monday night, has congratulated the 9th, 25th, 31st, 49th, 21st, and 19th Divisions of the Second Army on their magnificent performances, first in the battles south of Arras,......
It Is Difficult For The Civilian To Realize That The
few curt lines of Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of Monday night described what in other wars would have been a very great battle and a very great victory. The mere statement that......
The Enemy Made His First Attempt To Push Beyond Kemmel
on Friday week. He attacked with great determination on a six-mile front from Locre, at the foot of Mont Rouge, past the Scherpcnberg and La Clytte, to the canal. He was firmly......
News Of The Week.
y F our fighting men at sea, on land, and in the air were in any need 1 of encourageinent to-day, they would find it, in full measure, in the letter from the Queen which was......
There Was Fierce Fighting In The Amiens Sector In The
middle of ast week, but the enemy has struck his heaviest blows against he Franco-British front in Flanders. East of Amiens on Wed- nesday week the Germans had attacked in great......
The Paper Shortage.
TO OUR READERS.—The shortage of paper has obliged us to adopt the policy, already adopted by many of our contemporaries, of refusing to allow the " Spectator" to be "on sale or......
