Note 90 — THE ATTEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH SOUTH OF YPRES

The chaplain of the Guard Cavalry Division, ‘Hofprediger’ Dr. Vogel, in his book ‘3000 Kilometer mit der Garde-Kavallerie’ (p. 212), says the attack was made and failed, but ‘next day the English abandoned the farm: this may have been due either to the power of our 8-inch howitzers, or to the moral effect of the attack of the Guard Dragoons.’