World War One Diary for Sunday, October 7, 1917:

Home Fronts

France: Scantiest harvest for 50 years announced.

Western Front

Ypres: German attack near Reutel. Steady rain falling. Haig refuses Plumer and Gough’s request to close down Ypres offensive.

Champagne: ­French repulse big raiding party.

Aisne: French (Maistre) attack Chemin des Dames and clear Germans from road after month-long series of bloody localized actions. Attack and counterattack fail round Craoone on October 8.

Southern Fronts

Trentino: Austrian attack on Mt Costabella repulsed (and on October 12). Cadorna visits Mt Grappa defences (begun 1916) between Piave and Brenta.

Salonika: Brigade-General Corkran arrives to be CIGS representative with Serbian Army.