GERMAN REPORTS.
Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, October 5. German official': The hottest points in yesterday's fighting were at Poelcapelle and isolated farms at Passchendaele, on the cross roads eastward of Zonnebeke, in the wood westward of Becelaere village, and at Gheluvelt. The enemy temporarily advanced over this line, hut wore unable to hold the ground owing to our counterattacks. The English gains were restricted to a strip extending from one to one and a-half kilometres in depth between Poelcapelle and Becelaere. We retained Becelaere and Gheluvelt. October 6. German official: The artillery firing increased to dram-fire between Poelcapelle and Gheluvelt.
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Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 3
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101GERMAN REPORTS. Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 3
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