The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 363. 364 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK his success around Hill 70 when word camethat the Canadians were wanted in Bel-gium to complete the work carried on byother British forces which, owing to theatrocities, record-breaking weather andpoor intelligence work, had been a compar-ative failure. The Canadians arrived inthe Ypres salient late in October and bythe end of the first week of November theyliad stormed the crest of Passchendaeleridge and captured the villages of Goe-berg, Mossehuarkt and Passchendaele. Asat St. El
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . 363. 364 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK his success around Hill 70 when word camethat the Canadians were wanted in Bel-gium to complete the work carried on byother British forces which, owing to theatrocities, record-breaking weather andpoor intelligence work, had been a compar-ative failure. The Canadians arrived inthe Ypres salient late in October and bythe end of the first week of November theyliad stormed the crest of Passchendaeleridge and captured the villages of Goe-berg, Mossehuarkt and Passchendaele. Asat St. Eloi in 1915, the terrain was like somuch porridge, troops had to fight for daysat a stretch without food, the shellfire wasterriffic and only by wonderful fortitudewas it possible to retain the ground securedat so great a cost. The casualties hei-ewere not less than 28,000. Had the Cana-dians not reached the ground overlookingthe entire country as far as Zeebrugge,the Flanders campaign of that year wouldhave had to be written down as a dismalfailure. The Canadians were given a hard jo
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