Worcester were sent forward as reinforcements but were back on the start line by Two German infantry companies worked southwards from the Switch Line for later in the evening but another counter-attack was impossible, due to the tremendous volume of British barrage fire and the presence of British reconnaissance and artillery-observation aircraft. To the left of the 7th Division, the 33rd Division attacked the Switch Line near Martinpuich, while III Corps attacked Pozières but co-operation proved impossible. The Switch Line was attacked at by two battalions and another attack was made on the west side of High Wood. German machine-gunners caught the battalions in enfilade and despite reinforcement by the other two battalions of the 100th Brigade, the attack failed and the survivors were back on the start-line by The 98th Brigade attacked on the left from Bazentin le Petit village on a front encountered machine-gun crossfire and an artillery bombardment, the attack becoming a costly failure, which was also abandoned from The 1st Division had taken over from the 21st Division along the west edge of Bazentin le Petit Wood and at a battalion of the 2nd Brigade attacked towards the north-west up the trenches of the second position, taking of the front line and of the second line. At a 3rd Brigade battalion resumed the attack and after dark managed to link with the 34th Division with a line of posts. 16 July Furse ordered co-ordinated attacks on the north-west of Delville Wood and the north end of Longueval after a trench mortar bombardment. At a battalion of the 27th Brigade attacked west of North Street and the 1st South African Regiment attacked from the west end of Prince's Street (which runs through the middle of the wood) but both units were repulsed by machine-gun fire. The bombardment re-commenced but the stalemate continued. The 9th (Scottish) Division decided to postpone attacks until the heavy artillery could re-bombard the village at on 17 July but the Fourth Army headquarters demanded that the village be captured by dawn. The artillery bombardment was brought forward to when the infantry could have retired to a safe distance but German artillery-fire continued, cut all telephone lines and at German infantry counter-attacked. Armin had ordered a similar maximum effort and two regiments of the 8th Division and a regiment of the 12th Reserve Division were thrown in without time to prepare or reconnoitre. The