The night was spent in carrying out violent musketry fire, and to goad the enemy several reconnaissances were pushed in the village while a section of a French and Belgian bridging company was erecting a foot bridge on the Ramscappelleleed. The artillery kept hammering the enemy’s defences into ruins. At dawn of the 31^{th} of October, the german resistance weakened and a general attack carries the village up bringing in one jump the assaulting troops right up the railway line, scattering the remaining defenders and pushing them back toward the river Yser. The german fled, leaving their dead and wounded behind them, they also abandoned in the inundation the two famous “Minenwerfer”, which only seven days ago had annihilated a whole Belgian battalion, which was defending the Yser crossing at the Union Bridge. During the whole war, the Nieuport-Dixmude railway line formed in the “Ramscappelle sector”, the main line of resistance. When the water had retired a little, the sector was guarded by two main-guards i. e. Rijkenhoek and Beverdijk, particularly famous as kick off points for the numerous attacks and raids of our troops against the Violette and Terstille farms. That line offered numerous and well constructed shelters affording to our men relatively comfortable dwellings. Here and there, at places offering good field of fire or permitting to sweep main-traffic passages concrete machine pits (such as the one at the station) were built. In the hut of the railway guard an artillery observation-post was also constructed. 9.—Machine-gun shelter facing the Pervyse railway station. 10.—Observation-post at the Pervyse railway station. From up the 26^{th} of October 1914, date at which our troops were compelled to leave the Beverdijk, the Dixmude railway track outlined in front of Pervyse our first front line. On the 30^{th} of October meanwhile the foe was rushing for Ramscappelle he hurled detachments against the Pervyse station. That attack miserably failed under the violent rifle firing of the 1^{st} Battalion of the 12^{th} line Regiment which had been swiftly reinforced by few sections of the 2^d Bat. The assailants fled seeking refuge in the houses bordering the Schoore road opposite the railway station, where they were made prisoner in the course of the day. The rest managed to retire back to their former position but had to fight their way through the inundation in order to rally their line. [Illustration: PERVYSE.—The inundation facing the railway station (September 1916). ] [Illustration: OUD-STUYVEKENSKERKE.—The Tower (November 1914). ] [Illustration: OUD-STUYVEKENSKERKE.—The Tower (February 1917). ] The above assault was to be the only one the first line of Pervyse ever had to grapple with.