It has been busy on the fighting front though, with a German attack being eventually repulsed after a brief success near Passchendaele and another repulse for the Central Powers on the Tagliamento in Italy (both page 7). For the former Philip Gibbs states in his despatch that he has given up on the “fanciful arithmetic” needed to calculate German losses, and with the latter G. Ward Price provides a lengthy account of the Italian retreat. And in the Middle East Gaza comes under attack, and W. T. Massey provides an account of how Beersheba was captured in a “brilliant operation” (pages 7 and 8). What with Perceval Gibbon also filing from Italy on page 8 and G. H. Perris from the French sector on page 9, the paper’s reporters are certainly active at present.