THE ATTACK ON BRITISH OFFICERS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10616, 28 March 1900, Page 5

THE ATTACK ON BRITISH OFFICERS.

DEATH OF THE HON. A. LYGON. PARTICULARS OF THE AFFAIR. LONDON, March 26. Lieutenant-Colonel Crabbe's party, armed with revolvers, set out on a foraging expedition to the farms north of the British camp at Glen Siding. In the course of investigations the officers came to a siding where they examined the telegraph apparatus. On leaving they caught sight of tive mounted Boers on a kopje. The Boers immediately wheeled, and disappeared to the east. The British officers, in their endeavour to catch the Boers, divided, and swept round each side of the kopje, but mat with a deadly rifle fire at short range. The Hoii. A. Lj'gon was shot through the heart. The 'Boers pretended to retreat. They were joined by three others, and the eight marksmen lay in ambush. The men belonged to the Johannesburg police. Upon seeing that their tire was successful, the Boers left the ambush and rendered every service, washing and dressing the wounds, and sending news of the disaster to the British camp. The three wounded men, who were transferred to Bloemfontein, are progressing fuvourably.