WAMBEKE-GARDE DIEU into the fighting line, in order to carry forward the attack through and beyond WYTSCHAETE towards KEMMEL. After a comparatively quiet night the battle opened again on the morning of the 2nd November along the whole front of the Army Group Fabeck. His indefatigable troops, some of whom had already endured twelve days of the heaviest fighting that had taken place in the campaign, attacked their strongly entrenched opponent once more. The enemy was at least as strong as they were in fighting units on the battle-front, and besides was able to bring up reinforcements of newly arrived British and French troops.[86] On the eastern side of the _Ypres_ salient General von Deimling attacked on a front of nearly four miles. His Corps, which had won its laurels in Alsace, in Lorraine and in Northern France, again, in spite of heavy casualties, continued its advance of the previous days. The 30th Division entered VELDHOEK and established itself firmly in the north-eastern corner of the HERENTHAGE WOOD.[87] The attack had been facilitated by a simultaneous advance of the XXVII Reserve Corps, which had pressed forward some hundred yards north of VELDHOEK. Von Deimling's left wing had advanced in the direction of KLEIN ZILLEBEKE, but was held up by the difficult wooded country east of ZWARTELEEN. It had to wait here for assistance from the neighbouring troops on its left. The II Bavarian Corps had been held up early on the morning of the 2nd November by strong hostile counter-attacks in the sector west of HOLLEBEKE. They were all, however, repulsed and the Corps was even able to make a slight advance on the right wing during the day.