The ruined village as it was left, when the roadways were cleared, after the evacuation by the Germans in their retreat in 1918.
PLATE XXXVIII.
THE LA BASSÉE CANAL.
The temporary lifting bridge over the canal at La Bassée. The buildings are, of course, reconstruction. The German newspapers proclaimed that the capture of the canal here, in 1915, made the result of the war quite certain!
PLATE XXXIX.
A PITHEAD.