SORTIES FROM LADYSMITH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 293, 11 December 1899, Page 5

SORTIES FROM LADYSMITH.

sNEMY POISED AND ROUTED AT LOMBARD'S KOP.

19th HUSSARS RAID PEPWORTH HILL

jretoria Ladies Witness the Bombardment of Ladysmith.

BECHUANALAND MOUNTED POLICE CARRY OUT AN EFFECTIVE SURPRISE.

FIGHTING NEAR SPYTFONTEIN.

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DURBAN, November 10.

'Major-General Hunter, chief of General White's staff, with 500 Natal volunteers and 100 of the Imperial Light Horse, on Thursday surprised Jhe Boers at Lombards Kop, on the ifeft hand side of the main road, several miles north of Ladysmith. The P>rit;ish. wei-e successful, anil •^sicles destroying a six-inch gun and JTowitzer, captured a Maxim. "'The .casualties .of the attacking aarty. were only one killed and one younded. _ The same night another sortie was •made from the defence lines round jjadysmith, a detachment of the 19th flussars raiding Pepworth Hill, in the < Vicinity of Bester's, burning the Boers jaagers and cutting the barbed wire ; greeted as a. defence of the position. 'Train loads of gaily dressed' Pretoria ladies weekly * visit the hills toimd Ladysmith to watch the'bombardment. CAPETOWN, December n. T General Buller has reqnsitioned the fee^ices of 2200 stretcher-bearers to go to the front. Trains are now passing, over the bridge at Prere. .'. f . ; DUivBAN, December 9. I,1 The official report of "the casualties Sat Ladysmitli since November 1 is as follows: —Five officers and 2G men "killed, and 15 officers and 130 men Svounded.