The Third Battle of Ypres was resumed on Friday week,
a-ben our troops, attacking on a two-mile front, captured the whole village of Westhoek and all the positions still held by the enemy on Westhoek Ridge. Later in the day the Germans delivered six violent counter- attacks without result. Next morning they tried again, and by sheer weight of numbers pushed our men out of Glencorse Wood, on the slope of the ridge south-east of Westhoek. But they could do no more. In these operations we took four hundred and fifty-four prisoners and six guns. On Thursday the Allies again attacked on a wide front east and north of Ypres, and, according to Sir Douglas Haig, progressed at all points in face of stubborn resistance. With the return of fine weather our aeroplanes were again very active, destroying, according to the official reports, forty-five enemy machines in seven days, and losing thirty-seven of their own.
