Four Hours After The Attack; At 9 on July 31, 1917, the first German prisoners crossed the Yser Canal, between Steenstraete and Het-Sas; four hours earlier, the canal, impassable for two years, still separated enemy lines, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].

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