From about 8 to 9 a.m.
the general bombardment was rather severe.

There are thirty-three guns "playing" on us to-day, and though they do not concentrate their fire, they keep one on the alert.

This morning a Kaffir was working for the Army Service Corps (being at that moment engaged in kneading a pancake), when a small shell hit him full in the mouth, passed clean through his head, and burst on the ground beyond.

I believe he was the only man actually killed to-day.
A Frenchman who came in yesterday from the Boer lines was examined by General Hunter.

He is a roundabout little man, who says he came from Madagascar into the Transvaal by Delagoa Bay, and was commandeered to join the Boer army.