5. About June 10 it was relieved, and after a few days of rest entrained at Machault for Flanders. There it went into line near the Ypres-Menin road.
6. At the beginning of September it was withdrawn from the Ypres front and sent to rest, then took over the sector Warneton-Messines and was not relieved until the middle of January, 1918.
RECRUITING.
The 32d Division is exclusively Saxon.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
In June, 1917, the morale of the division was very low because of the losses suffered at Mont Haut.
However, during the division’s stay in the Tahure sector from May to June, 1917, there were only two desertions.
Besides, Gen. von Der Decken is considered an energetic commander and it is very probable that under his influence the morale has become more satisfactory (September, 1917).