The lowest estimate of loss is L3,000, chiefly in transport cattle.
But who knows whether by Christmas we shall not be glad even of a bit of old trek-ox?
Probably the Dutch hope to starve us out.

At intervals all morning they shelled the cattle near the racecourse, just for the sake of slaughter.

To-day also they tried their old game of sending gangs of refugee coolies into the town to devour the rations.

Happily, Sir George White turned at that, and sent out a polite note reminding the commandants that we live in a polite age.

So in the afternoon the Boers adopted more modern methods.