20 APRIL 1918, Page 1
On Friday week the Germans again failed to push us
back on the critical southern flank, where our positions north of Festubert, though lost for a moment, were retaken and afterwards improved. Nor could the enemy progress beyond Merville. But on the north the Germans after desperate fighting penetrated at night into Neuve Eglise, between Bailleul and the Messines Ridge. Last Saturday morning our men recaptured Neuve Eglise, and held it all that day and the next against repeated and violent assaults. Last Sunday night, when the enemy had paid the price, our troops were withdrawn from the ruined village.
