front of Le Transloy and our field guns fired at them with shrapnel and lethal shells. The heavy artillery were not so quick and lost a great opportunity. There is no doubt that the observers of the heavy artillery are not to be compared with the field artillery observers & their work is distinctly inferior. At dusk parties of engineers & pioneers were sent up to dig & make strong points and by early morning of the 8th the position manned by machine & Lewis guns was quite strong. The enemy shelled the sunken roads & our original front line very heavily & continued to do so during the night. We captured about 150 prisoners 4 machine guns and two mortars our