10 AUGUST 1918, Page 21

Captain Willy Breton describes very clearly in a new pamphlet

The Belgian Front and its Notable Features (Chatto and Windt's, 6d. net), with illustrations and a map. The Belgian front is not more than twenty miles wide, but it is by far the worst part of the battle. line, as It runs through inundated plains and swamps. The Belgian engineers have shown the greatest industry and ingenuity in con- structing a wide zone of elaborate defences which, it is believed, make the Allies' left flank from Nieuport to Ypres impregnable. The troops have displayed equal patience in guarding these water- logged trenches. They have not lost their spirit, as they showed by inflicting a decisive defeat on the enemy north-west of Ypres last spring.