CHAPTER III

NEUVE CHAPELLE

Canadians' valuable help--A ride in the dark--Pictures on the road--Towards the enemy--At the cross-roads--"Six kilometres to Neuve Chapelle"--Terrific bombardment--Grandmotherly howitzers--British aeroplanes--Fight with a Taube--Flying man's coolness--Attack on the village--German prisoners--A banker from Frankfort--The Indians' pride--A halt to our hopes--Object of Neuve Chapelle--What we achieved--German defences under-rated--Machine gun citadels--Great infantry attack--Unfortunate delays--Sir John French's comments--British attack exhausted--Failure to capture Aubers Ridge--"Digging in"--Canadian Division's baptism of fire--"Casualties"--Trenches on Ypres salient