On Monday the enemy made a second attempt on a
still greater scale. He attacked on the ten-mile front from Meteren, west of Bailleul, to Voormezeele, employing no fewer than thirteen divisions. Sir Douglas Haig entrusted the defence of our line to three divisions, the 25th, 49th, and 21st, and our French Allies holding the Scherpen- berg and Mont Rouge probably used two divisions. One hundred and thirty thousand Germans were thus faced by fifty thousand Allied troops. Despite the great disparity in numbers, the defenders proved equal to the task. The enemy made a " constant succession of determined attacks in great force," but at the end of the day he had gained nothing. In the morning his troops penetrated once more into Locre, but by the evening they were all driven out by the French. Elsewhere the attacks had not even a fleeting success. To the north of Ypres the enemy made a simultaneous attack on the Belgians near Langemarck, but there also he failed. The Belgians are fighting superbly.
