The numerous prisoners brought back from these expeditions supplied our Staff with informations, which were the more interesting because, at that time, the allied armies had begun to drive back the enemy from the French front. At last, on the 9^{th} of September, at dawn, a brilliant attack was executed without great loss by the 3^d line regiment. The position of Kwaebeek, entirely taken, was organized, and, when a few days later, the enemy who had recovered, attempted with the aid of great reinforcement to drive back our troops in their former lines, the success was of short duration, for the enemy had to let go. It was from the position of Kwaebeek, that the 1st Infantry division, started the 28^{th} of September 1918 to the signal for the great liberating offensive. 25.—The big german gun of Leugenboom at Couckelaere near Moere. Not having succeeded, in spite of their brutal effort and the use of asphyxiating gas, which till then had never been made use of, to pierce the front at Steenstraat, in April 1915, the Germans who had foreseen every thing, began to bombard Dunkirk, this permitted to their press to hide the check, to cry out loudly “Victory, our artillery is bombarding Dunkirk”. A marine gun of 380 mm. installed in a public house called “In het Predikboom” (kilometer 12^{th}, road Dixmude-Poelcappelle) had just started, to execute its first shot. That was on the 26^{th} of April 1915. A powerful counter-battery action was soon organized and proved a success. Twice the gun was disabled, the first time for a period of forty two days and the second time for forty eight. The 9^{th} of August 1915 registered its last shot. Nevertheless the counter-battery maintained its firing in order to prevent the Germans rebuilding the place and arming it. In October 1916, an extraordinary activity was shown at the former emplacement of Predikboom. Numerous and deliberate firings were executed by the counter-batteries; and one might well ask if this German activity was not a new dodge. Another place, in fact was being built at Leugenboom (3200 meters to the North of Couckelaere). The emplacement of Leugenboom was noted for the first time the 7^{th} of May 1917 by Captain Jaumotte while making one of his aerial reconnoitrings. He took a photograph of it, which clearly showed the advanced state of the works, the switch line, grafted on a point to a normal gauge, thus forming the junction at Eerneghem, to the state railway line Ostend-Thourout. Without a doubt the firing on Dunkirk was going to begin again. The Belgian artillery staff, started at once a plan of action against that urgent threat. The said staff obtained of the 36^{th} French army corps, which was operating on the Belgian front the aid of two guns of A. L. V. F. (artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée, i. e. Heavy railway battery) two magnificent naval guns of 305 (12 inch.).