and could not manage to get the ground back. I hear that one brigadier has been told to return to England. The mound ought to have been easy to recapture if we could have brought sufficient artillery to bear on it. Our line we are now holding is about 3000 yards in extent and the brigade is only about 2,800 strong - so it is held rather thinly. This has been represented but at present I don't think there are any more troops to send here. As long as the Germans remain on the defensive it does not matter but it makes one feel a bit anxious at times.