FIRING ON THE AMBULANCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 155, 29 May 1900, Page 3

FIRING ON THE AMBULANCE.

Mr Alfred Care, formerly a resident of Gceelons. and who was a member of the Stretcher- bearers' Corps attached to the fourth division at the tima of the assault oa Spionkop -and <the

truaiphdl entry of the relieving imn\ into Ladysmitb, stated, on hi . return to Grcelong. that ho had bcon inclined to discredit the stories of breaches o^ civilised warfare by the Boei-3 in fiiinc; upon ambulance parties and hospitals but he was no longer dubiou 5, having witnessed several flagrant instances ot this himself. On one eccniou, he s^w a party of stretcher beavers, who were conveying woundod to saffcty, delibbr siteiy shelled wifcli pom pom", inuring the progress of th« fight at Pieters Hill, the hospital was also fired upon, and faoiue of the ambulance parties ! discontinued the use of the lied Cross Qag, rinding that it only served to draw i fire upon them, instead of proaSi'viug them from molestation hy the enemy. His own party were shelled from Dooukop, and obliged to take refuge in a donga,.