On the night of the 8-9th, it took fourteen hours to get fresh troops into position in squalls of rain and a blinding wind. The attack was resumed at 3 p.m. on the 9th, the ground being hollowed out into deep pits into which men sometimes disappeared altogether. Finally the French held the west bastion (point C), the fortified curtain and stood their ground in front of the east part (point X).
Éparges in February 1915.—A shell bursting on a front line trench.
Éparges.—In a captured enemy trench; a prisoner being taken behind the lines.
A mine crater at the extremity of the spur, point X. (60 metres in diameter, 30 in depth).