THE CAPE FRONTIER.
DISASTER TO VICTORIANS.
ENTRAPPED AND ALL SLAIN.
Tuesday's cables- from London report that a troop of the lanLikilling Dragoons and the Victorian Mounted Rifles defended a kopje west of Bastard's Nek, in the Colesberg district, until the enemy opened upon them with a 40-pounder. Then they, took up a position at Hobkirk's farm, which they tenaciously defended, the British numbering only hundreds against thousands of Boers.
Eventually the- Inniskillings charged through 500 of the enemy, and managed to escape after inflicting heavy loss.
The Times correspondent states that the Victorians, seeing the Boers on the kopje, charged, were entrapped, and that all were found dead with their bayonets fixed and bloodstained.
No official confirmation has been received that all the Victorians were dead.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1378, 23 February 1900, Page 5
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