While the Carbineers were carrying away one of their dead another shell burst close by.

They rightly dropped the body and lay flat.

The only fragment which struck at all almost cut the dead man in half.

Another shell later in the day killed a Kaffir woman and her husband in a back garden off the main street.

Several women have died from premature childbirth owing to shock.
Most of my day was again spent in trying to get a Kaffir runner for a telegram, but none would go.