Philip Gibbs returns on page 7 today with an article about the Battle of the Somme from the German side. How exactly he is able to pen this is another matter considering he spent the battle either with the British troops or ill, and as always the reporting is partial in tone. Whilst he does recognise that the Germans inflicted casualties on the British on the first day of the battle, writing about how machine-gunners “ploughed dreadful gaps in the ranks of our splendid men,” mostly, as so many of the reports of the battle tended to be, you get the sense of serried ranks of German casualties but little of our own.