The war in January 1918 . ere reducedby constant counter-attacks to one of those longdefensives which are most wasteful in men anddepressing to the spirit. The Battle of Messines Ridge took place inJune, and at one stroke the Ypres salient waswiped out. The ridge which had enabled theGermans to follow every movement in Ypreswas captured at a bound, and with it 7,200 pri-soners, 67 guns, 94 trench mortars and 294machine guns. At the end of the followingmonth the long struggle for the ridge east ofYpres began, and it lasted until Passchendaelehad been captured, and the weather had turnedthe coun
The war in January 1918 . ere reducedby constant counter-attacks to one of those longdefensives which are most wasteful in men anddepressing to the spirit. The Battle of Messines Ridge took place inJune, and at one stroke the Ypres salient waswiped out. The ridge which had enabled theGermans to follow every movement in Ypreswas captured at a bound, and with it 7,200 pri-soners, 67 guns, 94 trench mortars and 294machine guns. At the end of the followingmonth the long struggle for the ridge east ofYpres began, and it lasted until Passchendaelehad been captured, and the weather had turnedthe country on the north-east of the line ofadvance into an impenetrable morass. Thisbattle gave the British 24,065 prisoners, 74guns, 941 machine guns, and 138 trenchmortars. The total German losses wereextremely high—much higher than the British—and the Germans were left to winter under con-ditions which the year before had been experi-enced by the British only. Meanwhile the French had delivered a bril- THE WAR IN Some oj the German prisoners taken hy the British in FiunJen. THE WAR IN JANUARY. 13
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