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In Flanders General Plumer has maintained a steady pressure on

the enemy from Wytschaete to Givenchy. Day by day our lines have been pushed closer to the Messines Ridge, to Armentieres, and to La Bassee, in front of which our troops are now fighting in the old. German lines. The intention is, no doubt, to prevent the enemy from withdrawing divisions from this sector to reinforce the Cambrai front. He must hold La Bassee firmly, because it is the chief outer defence of Lille. On Wednesday our troops stormed the fortress known as the " Railway Triangle," a mile and a half west of La Bassee, which defied all our efforts in the first winter of the war.

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