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On Wednesday came the second phase of the battle. Our

men advanced on a six-mile front from the south of Tower Hamlets to the east of St. Julien, and again captured all the positions which they wished to occupy. South of the Menin road, the whole of the Tower Hamlets ridge was taken. To the north of the road, the Australians completed the capture of Polygon Wood, British troops stormed Zonnebeke, and British Territorials pushed forward half-a-mile east of St. Julien, clearing the enemy out of his many little forts. The enemy, by a counter-attack in the afternoon, drove back the Territorials for a short distance, but the lost. ground was almost all regained by a renewed attack. Over a thousand prisoners were taken, and the ground was strewn with " very large numbers of German dead."

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