SOME OF KITCHENER'S BODYGUARD IN DIFFICULTIES.
LONDON, January 15. Colonel White, on the 3rd, sent" Major Laing with 150 of Lord Kitchener's bodyguard, attached to General Knox's column, towards Reitz.
While ascending a valley they experienced showers of explosive bullets from kopje 3 six hundred yards on the right and left.
The Beers numbered a thousand, and the British retiring, and meeting five hundred Boers, galloped into a donga, and fought 'from cover desperately. Laing wti3 shot through the heart.
The enemy surrounded the small foice, which maintained a dogged resistance, till the Boers threatened to kill the survivors.
Lieut. Batescn galloped through the Boers and informed White of the occurrence. Reinforcements were sent and shelled the disappearing enemy, killing seventeen at one spot.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10867, 17 January 1901, Page 5
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