Even the cattle were shelled, and I saw three common shell and a shrapnel thrown into one little herd.

Yet the casualties were quite insignificant, till the terrible event of the day, about half-past five p.m.During the afternoon "Long Tom" had chiefly been shelling the Imperial Light Horse camp, the balloon, and the district round the Iron Bridge.

Then he suddenly sent a shell into the library by the Town Hall.

The next fell just beyond the Town Hall itself.

The third went right into the roof, burst on contact, flung its bullets and segments far and wide over the sick and wounded below.