GERMAN OFFENSIVE 10 [Main]

I. The La Bassée Canal sector. British troops commencing barbed wire defences in open country on 17 April. On the same day troops in Béthune (?) dig a trench-line, with shells bursting over the houses. Two stretcher-bearers carry a wounded man out of the garden of a house and put him in an ambulance (they are probably 51st Division). Soldiers of the Portuguese 2nd Division wheel their bicycles thr…