THE BLAST OF THE GUNS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE BLAST OF THE GUNS.

" The dawn of next day, jilajuba Day, 'came up like thunder,' and with peal after" peal of thuuder 'outer China 'crobt the Bay,' out of the billowing tanglo of scrub between Monto Cristo and Hlangwani across the river. The long broadside was ' letting itsolf go' like un angry woman ; one were happier dead than alive upon this hill ; oven untouched one would have bceii unable to stand whore wo wero btanding now, so fiercely was the breath of the great shells blasting across it In hot, staggering gusts, the dry trees bending aid crackini? before it, the hundreds of dirty squaus of cartridge-paper -which strewed ur dilv the front of the big trench behind us twicling and soaring up in the ceaseless , whirlwinds which arose suddenly in tho still air as the projectiles tore by. Even untouched, one would havo felt one's body rending to pieces as one looked where a shell burst in the midst of a trench, and heard the filthy squelch and sharp cries above the roar, and saw tho awful furea through the red glare and