The battle on Thursday morning on the Passchendaele Ridge and its approaches is unquestionably the most important British victory of the year. It marks the culmination of the operations on the Ypres front during the past two months. The battle of Broodseinde had results which could not have been foreseen when it was planned. The British Army in the West has often had bad luck in the weather and in other ways, but on Thursday the luck (or the intelligence?) seems to have…

Source: The Times October 05, 2017 22:52 UTC