little difficulty in getting through the German wire which had been cut by our guns, and they found no Germans to stop them. Each party then proceeded up the trenches killing any Germans who refused to come out of their dug outs and in half an hour the parties returned with seven prisoners, bags of loot in the shape of equipment, rifles etc and the Artillery then dropped their fire on to the German front line, the signal for this being three rockets which burst into gold & silver rain. The German Artillery barrage was now fairly heavy & some of the prisoners and our men were wounded after they had got back to our trenches.