CAPTURE OF CHALMONT HILL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 7

CAPTURE OF CHALMONT HILL.

USEFUL GAIN FOE ALLIES

ENEMY LOSS OF MUNITIONS ENORMOUS.

(Received Aug. 1, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Reuter's correspondent at American headquarters, writing on Tuesday evening, says: The Butte de Chalniont has been the centre of the enemy ■ resistance on the west salient, and its capture by the Allies brings much needed assistance to the flank of the American line at -Seringes. It would certainly be a costly business to take the forest of Nesles, but there are alternative possibilities in the open ground west of the railway now that the Butte de Chalniont is in our hands.

It is still impossible to estimate the enemy's enormous losses in munitions. The forest roads are. bordered with shells for miles, and dumos covering acres tnr piled to the height of a man, have been discovered.—Reuter.