The New Yorker, November 6, 1943 P. 47
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Anglo-American N. African campaign. Gafsa, called Capsa by the Numidians, is a very ancient town on a very slight hill in south-central Tunisia. There is an oasis around the town, which used to be an important knot in the web of caravan routes betw. the Sahara & Mediterranean. Last winter, Gafsa had, & by now probably has again 10,000 inhabitants, of whom five or six hundred are Europeans, 800 Jews, & the rest Moslems who call them selves Arabs but are predominantly of Berber stock. The Jews, whose ancestors came there not long after the Destruction of the Temple, are traders & middlemen betw. the Christians and the Moslems. Interview with a Jew named Chemounis and his family. Tells about the junction of the British Eight Army and the American Second Corps.
