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Show I' BRITISH HOLD THEIR ADVANTAGE BRITISH FRONT IN BELGIUM, Nov. 7. By the Assoicated Press.) Field Marshal von HIndenburg's stem 1 edict that if the Germans lost Pas- ij chendaele village it must bo taken at M all costs, had not stirred his beaten- , , back troops this morning. The intrepid Canadians were still standing as they had for twenty hours, along a line well j beyond ibis vital point, although rain- J drenched and shivering under the ,j biting autumn wind in their muddy t fastnesses, j, ' Every hour strengthened the British t " positions on the front of Passchen- daele, Mosselmarkt and Goeberg for I I the work of consolidation proceeded apace during most of yesterday and all of last night. Passchcndaele, whose spires not long ago showed picturesquely against the sky from their elevated position, is now a memory. The little hamlet lias all but disappeared under the deluge of shells. It was not the village that counted, however, but its enviable site. From it one may see a great distance out across occupied Belgium, and the possibilities for artillery artil-lery work from here aro wide in scope. |