them was successful.

The Dragoons were relieved on June 3, 1915, and their places were
taken by a much larger force. It included the Third Worcesters,
the First Wiltshires, the First Northumberland Fusiliers, the First
Lincolnshires, the Royal Fusiliers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers,
and the Liverpool Scottish, a territorial organization.

The British artillery was concentrated in the neighborhood of Hooge
and started a bombardment on June 16. After a fairly adequate
preparation by cannonade, the infantry charged the German line for
a thousand yards near the Chateau, and took a part of the second
line of trenches. Again the British bayonet and bomb had won, though
in this attack the greater credit must be given to the bomb. The
Germans made an attempt to retrieve the day by battering the British
out of the trenches they had won. To do this the German artillery
used a plentiful supply of high-explosive shells. They continued
the attempt for twenty-four hours; but all they succeeded in doing
was driving the British back to the first line of German trenches
where they waited for the inevitable attack of the infantry which
was repulsed. Finally the Germans seemed inclined to give up trying
to accomplish much on this part of their front.

In the first week of July, 1915, the British took two hundred yards
of German trenches, eighty prisoners and three trench mortars.
The German commander now turned once more to Hooge. An additional
reason for his renewed interest in that place was the fact that the
British engineers, on July 20, blew up a mine west of the Chateau,
thereby making a great crater in which the British infantry made
themselves comparatively secure. The crater was one hundred and
fifty feet wide and fifty feet deep.

The Germans made an unsuccessful attempt to take the crater on
July 21, 1915; and tried again on July 24. The Duke of Wuerttemberg
found his men making comparatively little progress. It is true that
the British had not made much more. The gas attacks had gained ground
before the British had learned how to avoid the more severe effects
of the poison. The result of experience brought into existence
a new device. It has been called a flame projector, and has been
described as a portable tank which is filled with a highly inflammable
coal-tar product. The contents of the tank were pumped through a
nozzle at the end of which was a lighting arrangement. The flame
could be thrown approximately forty yard