On Wednesday a Second Battle of Loos began with a
striking success for the Canadians. Their first objective was Hill 70, the low hummock on the Lens-La Baas& road, whiclawas captured by the Highlanders in their daring advance on September 25th, 1915, but afterwards lost for want of supports, The Canadians took the hill with a rush, and advanced well beyond it to the edge of Cite St. Augustl They ale° captured the mining villages lying south of the hi 1 as far as the outskirts of Lens itself, which
is now half encircled by the Canadian lines. North of the hill they took two woods adjoining the road. Five counter-attacks, one of them delivered by the Prussian Guard, were beaten off with heavy loss to the enemy, who left two hundred and eighty-two prisoners in our hands. The Canadian casualties in this well- planned aid highly important battle were, fortunately, slight— as they were at Vimy. Our new tactics are at once far more successful and far less costly than the old.
