CHAPTER III

THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Attack on the Fourth and Fifth Corps

Attack on Sixth and Fifty-first Divisions--Engagement of the Twenty-fifth and Forty-first Divisions--Attack on Forty-seventh, Sixty-third, Second, and Nineteenth Divisions--The German torrent--Serious situation--Arrival of Sixty-second Division--Fighting before Albert--Gallant defence by Twelfth Division--Arrival of the New Zealanders, of the Australians, of the Thirty-fifth Division--Equilibrium

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