The railway stopped running trains beyond there yesterday, and had better have stopped altogether.

Anyhow, the line of communication between us and the splendid little brigade at Dundee is broken now.

Dundee is pretty nearly fifty miles N.N.E.of this.

The camp is happily on a stronger position than ours, and not mixed up with the town.

But at present it is practically besieged, and no one can say how long the siege of Ladysmith also will be delayed.