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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14292, 22 December 1916, Page 7

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PERMANENT PICTURES. .

, "TJio Battle-of the Somme" films, taken for the British War Office, -will bo shown at tbe Empire Theatre tonight., A summary of these historic pictures is appended:. Terrific .bombardment of the German trenches; continuous shell-fire by 15-inch howitzers; just before the attack-; blowing up .enemy trenches by a hiige mine; Royal Engineers rushing off" to wire tho 40ftdeep crater for occupation by the acl- * ance troops; at a signal cJong the entire sixteen-mile front' the troops leap from the trenches and charge under heavy fire; rescuing a comrade in a hail of shrapnel; bringing in the wounded (British and German): friend and foe help' each other: Royal Artillery moving up during battle over ground where the Gordons' and Devons' dead are lying after their glorious and 'successful charge on the" ridge near Mametzj'one of the Jive unsuccessful German counter-attacks at Xa Boiselle; the battle rages furiously at' JUinden Post ; nerve-shattered German prisoners juriving; dealing the battlefield of snipers and hidden machine guns; the toll of war; a battalion of the Middlesex burying German dead; bringing up the howitzers and placing them in advanced position for next bombardment. There is an excellent list of assisting subjects. Seats may be reserved by telephone (186) at the Empire Theatre The management extend a cordial in- : vitation to returned soldierg to bo pre--1 sent' to-night.