From Mons to Loos, being the diary of a supply officer . )roof the Staff took shelter whenever theshelling became severe. On the night of the 26th the enemymade a supreme effort, and in overwhelm-ing numbers carried the northern end ofNeuve Chapelle. As soon as the Prussianssecured the village the trenches in front of. o NEUVE CHAPELLE. 153 it became untenable, and our troops wereforced to retire with some loss to a hastily-dug line farther back. It was fortunate that the Germans had nolarge numbers of fresh troops now avail-able, for if such had been the case it isdifficult to see what could
From Mons to Loos, being the diary of a supply officer . )roof the Staff took shelter whenever theshelling became severe. On the night of the 26th the enemymade a supreme effort, and in overwhelm-ing numbers carried the northern end ofNeuve Chapelle. As soon as the Prussianssecured the village the trenches in front of. o NEUVE CHAPELLE. 153 it became untenable, and our troops wereforced to retire with some loss to a hastily-dug line farther back. It was fortunate that the Germans had nolarge numbers of fresh troops now avail-able, for if such had been the case it isdifficult to see what could have preventedtheir making a complete breach in our line. There can be little doubt that during theterrible fighting of the previous week theenemys losses had been enormous, far inexcess of what we ourselves had , in all probability, when a fresh tideof men must have spelt victory for them,that tide was not available. The sacrificesof our heroic infantry had not been in Kaiser had spent the lives of hissoldiers with a prodigal hand, and the menwho might perhaps have cleared a path tothe sea were lying rotting in their thousandsin the death zone before our trenches. Nevertheless, the enemy were actually inpossession of a portion of our line; it there-fore became necessary to turn them out if
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