The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . gto regain lost ground. Ilaig was battering away on thesector east and northeast of Ypres, while the French joinedup with the British left wing to the of Dixmude, inan endeavor to bring that action of the line even with thesharp wedge that had been driven into the German front by United Press dispatch from William Slmms. 210 FLANDERS, MALIIAISON, VERDUN, AND CAMBRAI Haig east of Broodseinde. With apparent ease the French-men crossed the fl
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . gto regain lost ground. Ilaig was battering away on thesector east and northeast of Ypres, while the French joinedup with the British left wing to the of Dixmude, inan endeavor to bring that action of the line even with thesharp wedge that had been driven into the German front by United Press dispatch from William Slmms. 210 FLANDERS, MALIIAISON, VERDUN, AND CAMBRAI Haig east of Broodseinde. With apparent ease the French-men crossed the flooded and Jansbeek Rivers andcaptured the villages of St. Jean-de-Manfelare and Yeldhoek,together with numerous blockhouses, atid made prisoners ofseveral hundred Germans. The advance of the French wasover a front of more than a mile and a half, and they pene-trated the German line to a depth of one and a quartermiles. The movement was a pivoting .ionc and as a resultvirtually all the observatories dominating the vast Flandersplain were now in the hands of the Allies. Haigs principal offensive centered on such portions of the. GERMAN RAILWAY DESTKOYBD ON THE WESTERN FRONT Passchendaele-Gheluvelt ridge as were still held by the Ger-mans, being directed eastward from Poelcapelle, which wascaptured, and northeastward from Broodseinde toward Pas-schendaele, the ultimate objective still being the Ostend-Lilleroad. Taken as a whole, the joint operation made more ap-parent the crowning desire of the Allies in this region—theforcing back of the Germans to points where their evacuationof Ostend and Zebrugge, naval- and on theNorth Sea, would become necessary. At several pointsHaigs advance was sharply contested by the Germans, par-ticularly north of Broodseinde, the nearest approach to therailroad-line and near the Polderhoek Chateau. Nowhere, v. IV—in 217 ON THE WESTEEN FKONT liowever, were the Germans able to stay the advance, exceptnear the Chateau, wh
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