There cannot be the smallest doubt that the Boer gunners deliberately aimed at the Red Cross flag, which flies on the turret of the Town Hall, visible for miles.

They have now hit twenty-one people in that hospital alone.

This last shell has aroused more hatred and rage against the whole people than all the rest of the war put together.

When next the Boers appeal for mercy, as they have often appealed already, it will go hard with them.

Overcome with the horror of the thing, many good Scots have refused to take part in the celebration of St.Andrew's Day, although the Gordons held some sort of festival, and there was a drinking-concert at the Royal.