night the Royal Engineers go up to the trenches to repair them make wire entanglements etc and they run very great risks the whole time as the Germans snipe nearly all night. The Engineers work generally till 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning - the weather is fairly mild - no frost but it rains most days. Captain Radcliffe Border Regt attached to Royal Scots Fusiliers was shot through the heart on the night of the 9th in the trenches. I hear that the Prince with most of the Generals was looking on at the attack on the 13th from SHAERPENBERG. The prisoners belonged to one of the Bavarian