in some is poisonous from the dead bodies lying about half buried. The French 18th Division join on to our left, & I visited their machine gun position. It took me just five hours going round D Sector. Mar 17-21 Weather improves and is quite warm again. The Germans attacked St ELOI on the 18th and after bombarding some of the trenches and making them untenable rushed them & the mound (which they had mined) & some Germans I believe actually got into the village itself. The mound commands some of the trenches in the section we hold. So I hope