work I have heard accidentally on my rambles
to-day. I give them merely as samples of a
score of similar events that are narrated as each
division of troops returns from its duty at the
front. I happened, when riding out early to-
day, to meet the train of sick and wounded who
were being brought down in carts to Horup-Haf,
in order to be shipped to Fiinen or Copenhagen. I
counted at least forty carts, averaging four soldiers
in every cart I am told a similar train comes
daily from the hospitals at Augustenburg. If
you add to the soldiers well enough to be removed
the number of killed, and of men too severely
wounded to bear removal, you will see at what a
fearful rate the Danish army is being weakened
by this murderous fire. Eight hundred men have
arrived to-day from Fredericia to make up for
the recent losses ; but I am afraid that any rein-
forcements Denmark is in a position to send can
only serve to prolong a hopeless struggle. The
Danes are too brave to be used up as mere food
for powder ; and yet this is the only purpose that
they now can serve.
