Sir Douglas Haig, through another week of broken weather, confined
himself to local operations on the Western Front, until on Thursday morning he resumed the offensive on a wide front east of Ypres. At the time of writing we know only that our troops had mode satisfactory progress: Our lines had been pushed forward to the north and east of St. Julien, and hostile counter-attacks failed to dislodge our men from their gains. To the south-east of Ypres, on the tactically important ridge crowned by Inverness Copse, the Londoners took a " strong point" on Saturday last and beat off a sharp counter-attack, while the York and Lancaster Regiment on Tuesday made a raid into the German trenches in the Copse itself. In the Arras region, to the west of Chirisy, on Saturday last, the Durhams twice entered the enemy lines, killing seventy Germans and wrecking their dug-outs. The enemy, imitating our tactics, has made similar raids, notably in the coast sector to the south of Lombaertzyde, but he has usually been driven off without: loss to us.
