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Show Crown Prince of Bavaria Suffers l Another Stinging Defeat in Battle ; I BRITISH FRONT IN BELGIUM, Tuesday, Oct. 30. (By the Associated Press.) Tho forces of Crown Princo Rupprecht of Bavaria today suffered another stinging defeat when the British reached -out across a sea of mud and wrenched away still more of i the few remaining defenses of the enomy's Passchendaole system. It has been another proud day for Canada. 1 Her troops this afternoon were sitting almost at tho gates of Passchendaole and from thoir positions astride the Broodselnde-Passchcndaelo highway along the ridge they could see only 400 yards away the great church which stands in the center of the village. While tho Canadians were battling thoir way forward hero in the face of fierce resistance from the Bavarians, comrades on their left were hammering hammer-ing their way along the Meotchole or Bcllevue spur from points that seemed to have carried them well beyond tho hamlet of Meetchcle and the numerous machine gun defenses with which the elevation was covered. There was sanguinary fighting In both sections. The German losses wero heavy and tho men from-ovorseas did not achieve their triumph without some cost in casualties. Moanwhilo. the British homo troops on tho left of the Canadians had undertaken un-dertaken the task of crossing the Pad-debeok Pad-debeok river and tho mornssoB in order to bring their line forward and protect the Canadian flank. Tho men from tho British Isles know that this must bo done and they did It. How they accomplished this drive through tho clinging mud probably they thorn-selves thorn-selves could not tell. One heavy counter-attack delivered by the Bavarians as oarly as 8:30 from Maesclmark against the Canadians was caught by artillery and machine gun fire and smashod. The gain on tho Candian front averaged between. S00" and 1,000 yards along most of it. The Canadians encountered a stiff position early in tho advance' at Fries-land Fries-land copse, a machine gun defouso lying In the valley of the Ravebeek which runs down the slope at the junction of the Meetchcle spur and the Passchendaele ridge. The enemy turned a heavy machine gun fire on the advancing troops and when they closed In fought bitterly to retain a hold on their concrete defenco. But Frlesland copse foil and tho Canadians pushed on up tho slopes. The infantry working eastward along the crest of the rasschendaelo toward tho village progressed rapidly although under a severe fire at many points. The Crest farm, just north of the highway, put up a strenuous re-Bistanco re-Bistanco and a hard struggle was staged hero. The farm was heavily armed with rapid fire guns and the Canadians attacked with rifles and bombs. Fight at Crest Farm. Whlio the British wero struggling with the enemy nt Crest farm, tho troops on their left were having trouble trou-ble from tho enemy guns which would concentrate on them, The British artillery carao to tho rescuo with an offensive ngainst the German batteries bat-teries so that tho hostllo shelling decreased de-creased greatly. In this lull the Canadians Cana-dians rushed past and stormod their way to tho village of Meotchelo. A violent struggle occurred at close k H quarters among the cottages in this 'i M little place. Those of the enemy who ;. Jfl were able retreated toward Massel- '-w markt. but at 8:30 o'clock the Ba- varians marched out of Masselmarkt fl for a counter-attack. H The Canadians at Crest farm, 1,000 yards south of Masselmarkt, were tho H first to see this threat developing fl against their comrades. A number of fl captured enemy machine guns wero fl brought into play against the advanc- . ing Bavarians with disastrous result. fl At almost tho same time signals j I reached tho British artillery and tho J fl enemy was caught in a swirl of gun- j .fl fire that shattered the ranks badly and 6 fl caused a hasty retreat. Shortly after- I ifl ward numbers of the cnomy wero MlSM seen running eastward from Massol- t ft markt, evidently having had too strong I a taste of the barrage fire. At the loft the Canadians and Eng-lish Eng-lish pushed favorably across the Pad-debeek Pad-debeek river and assaulted numerous I enemy defenses on tho eastern bank. , The ground was in very poor condl t tion. The Paddcbcek was not In flood, C i but the wholo country surrounding it L was a marsh In which the men floun- K dcred miserably. To add to their trou J bios there were hundreds of great lM holes filled with water into which they 3 flH often plunged and from which they wero extracted Avith difficulty. Such strongholds as Sourd farm and L Cource farm maintained a heavy ma- , chine gun fire ngainst them from the moment the advance began. In spite of K H theso difficulties they pushed their l. lino forward and established contact with the Canadians on thoir right j 1 , JH |