Tho main results of Tuesday's battle were the advance of
Lan- cashire Territorials for a mile along the ridge nearly up to Pas.eben- daele, the capture of the remaining enemy positions in Poelcappelle, and, on the left or northern wing, the advance of British and French troops, through flooded ground, to the outskirts of Houthulst Forest. The French took four hundred prisoners, and the total of the day's captures was two thousand and thirty-eight, including twenty-nine officers, with a few guns. The enemy, in the course of his counter- attacks later in the day, pressed back our advanced posts on that part of our new front lying between Poelcappelle and the Staden railway to the north of the village. But a slight drawing back of our line for one mile out of ten means nothing. Probably the men who fell hack from one set of water-logged shell-holes to another set could not he supplied with ammunition quickly enough. The defenders of our really important positions on the ridge beat off the enemy with case.
