made wide gaps in the attacking columns and the enemy's losses must have been terrible. Our own troops had also suffered severely in the constant fighting and under the everlasting hostile artillery fire. Some of our regiments had been reduced to half their strength. But in spite of it the British did not succeed in breaking through between the XXIII and XXVI Reserve Corps. The XXVI and XXVII Reserve Corps were by this time completely held up in front of strongly entrenched positions on the line LANGEMARCK-ZONNEBEKE-GHELUVELT and opposed to an enemy who was becoming stronger every day and making the most desperate efforts to regain his freedom of action and begin a big offensive himself. The XXVI Reserve Corps, which advanced on the morning of the 20th, the 51st Reserve Division from the area west of ROULERS, and the other Division from MORSLEDE, encountered a stubborn resistance along the ridge WESTROOSEBEKE-PASSCHENDAELE-KEIBERG. Fighting under the eyes of their general, who was himself in the thick of the struggle, the 51st Reserve Division stormed the slope on to the ridge and entered WESTROOSEBEKE. The French division defending it was driven out at four in the afternoon and, attacking incessantly, the gallant 51st, supported by the 23rd Reserve _Jäger_ Battalion, reached a line from the railway-station north-west of POELCAPPELLE to POELCAPPELLE itself during the evening. The attack was all the more daring through the fact that HOUTHULST Forest was still in the enemy's hands, and the flank of the division therefore appeared to be threatened. Meanwhile the 52nd Reserve Division had taken PASSCHENDAELE, KEIBERG and the high ground between them from the British; the artillery again deserving the highest praise for its co-operation.[35] The attack, however, was brought to a standstill in front of the enemy's main position at the cross-roads east of ZONNEBEKE. The XXVII Reserve Corps commanded by General von Carlowitz, formerly Saxon War Minister, lay in close touch with the 52nd Reserve Division on the evening of the 20th. Advancing in four columns and by constant fighting it had forced its way westwards. The Würtemburg Division had succeeded in driving the 7th British Division out of BECELAERE after heavy street fighting, and the left wing was bent back on TERHAND. Communication was there obtained with the 3rd Cavalry Division, fighting on the right wing of the Sixth Army, which had captured a hostile position north-east of KRUISEIK.