The battle of the Menin Road, as the new offensive
may be called, began early on Thursday week. On a front of eight miles cant of Ypres, from the Condors Canal on the south to Langemarek on the north, British and Dominion troops attacked and carried a number of "strong points" and fortified farms. The high ground on the Menin road almost due east of Ypres, crowned by Inverness Copse, Glencorse Wood, and Nun Wood, where there has been desperate fighting for weeks post, was stormed by North Country troops and by Australians. It was the key to the whole German defensive line. After a brief pause, the troops again advanced for about a mile into the enemy positions, and attained a line passing through Tower Hamlets, beyond Veldhoek, through Polygon Wood, and beyond Zevcnkote on the Hinders railway. Three thousand two hundred and forty-three German prisoners, including eighty officers, were taken, but owing to the nature of the fighting the enemy losses were " unusually great."
