BRILLIANT BRITISH ATTACK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 5

BRILLIANT BRITISH ATTACK

LONDON, July 30, Mr Campbell writes: Strong enemy resistance has become .general south of Soissons. The British are fully sharing the fighting, a_,d bore the hardest part of simultaneous Anglo-French attacks on Grand Rozoy and the Butte de Chalmont. The French captured the latter with ease and with remarkably small losses. The British, after taking Grand Rozoy, -advanced upon Beugneux, Avhere the enemy wer© in a strong position, being apparently determined not to move. The first assault met Avith heavy artillerying and machine-gunning, and Avas checked. The French onlookers describe the second as a dashing .attack, and wonderfully brilliant. The British climbed the sJlope in perfectly opejn .ground and gained the woods facing their objective, the important height, northward, and and are not attempting a further advance.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.