Another counter-attack against Sheikh Hasan was repulsed later in the day, and a third starting from Crested Rock which aimed at getting back El Burj trench was a complete failure.

The Sherwood Rangers and South Notts Hussars were vigorously counter-attacked at Mudweiweh, but they severely handled the enemy, who retired a much weakened body.

The first counter-attack in the dark hours drove the Lowlanders off, but they were shortly afterwards back on the hills again.

The 6th Mounted Brigade moved no farther on the day of Mughar because the 22nd Mounted Brigade, when commencing an attack on Akir, the old Philistine city of Ekron, were counter-attacked on their left.

The 234th Brigade began an advance on Junction Station during the night, but were strongly counter-attacked and had to halt till the morning, when at dawn they secured the best positions on the rolling downs west of the station, and by 7.30 the station itself was occupied.

A regiment of the 8th Brigade sent to reinforce the 6th Brigade on their left got within 800 yards of the hill, when the guns about Bireh and Ramallah opened on them and they were compelled to withdraw, and a Turkish counter-attack forced our forward line back slightly in the afternoon.

The enemy counter-attacked with a determination fully equal to that which he had displayed during the past fortnight's battle in the hills.

They gained the crest, but the enemy had a big force in the neighbourhood and counter-attacked, forcing the Welshmen to withdraw some distance down the western slope.

Next day we counter-attacked and retook Faiti, but 393 remained in Austrian hands.

They should have counter-attacked instead.

Then the Italians, British, and French counter-attacked with great vigor and soon turned the Austrian offensive into a great rout, killing thousands, taking other thousands prisoner, and capturing a vast amount of war material, including many of the Austrian heavy-caliber guns.

Under these circumstances the Russian plan of campaign resolved itself into three parts: (1) A northern movement from Kovno and Grodno on Insterburg and Königsberg as a counter-attack.

At night the Germans counter-attacked certain portions of our line, supporting the advance of their infantry as always by a heavy bombardment.

"The Ninetieth Winnipeg Rifles, which held the extreme left of the brigade position at the most critical moment, was expelled from the trenches early Friday morning by an emission of poisonous gas, but recovering in three-quarters of an hour it counter-attacked, retook the trenches it had abandoned and bayoneted the enemy.

No let-up in the determination of either side; no advance seemingly possible, no attack that was not followed by a counter-attack; no gain of any consequence anywhere; no possibility seemingly of any decisive battle; nothing in sight but an absolute deadlock.

The Germans effected a successful counter-attack on November 6, recapturing some of the ground won by the Allies, with 400 prisoners, 300 of them French.

"Though the Germans repeatedly counter-attacked, the Canadians not only kept every inch they had wrested from the enemy, but before dawn they had strongly reorganized their position and dug over 250 yards of connecting trenches.

In the "Victorian" war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered their blow, they over-reached, they were successfully counter-attacked on the Marne, and then abruptlyalmost unfairly it seemed to the British sportsmanlike conceptionsthey shifted to the game played according to the very latest rules of 1914.

In 615 came a decisive counter-attack from the Turks.

Five separate times during the hours of darkness did fresh masses of Turks sweep down upon the worn and weary Colonials, and twice parties of the latter counter-attacked and drove the survivors helter-skelter before them.

TYDINGS, MILLARD E. Counter-attack.

CHRISTIAN COUNTER-ATTACK, by Hugh Martin, Douglas Newton, H. M. Waddams & R. R. Williams.

SEE CHRISTIAN COUNTER-ATTACK. NEWTON, JOSEPH.

WADDAMS, H. M. SEE CHRISTIAN COUNTER-ATTACK.

The enemy's counter-attack was not yet ready.