GENERAL GATACRE'S DOINGS.
STRAITS OF A SCOUTING PARTY. AN ALL-NIGHT RESISTANCE TO THE ENEJVIY. j CAPETOWN, 2nd January. During the reconnaissance made by the cavalry force sent out by Lieut. -General Gatacre in the vicinity of Dordrecht — which eventuated in retirement when the Boois brought up their artillery — forty of Captain Montmorency's scouts were intercepted by the enemy. The scouts took refuge in a donga (or dry water-course) and resisted the repeated attacks of eight hundreu Boers. Eventually 115 mounted riflemen with four guns relieved them in the morning, the libers retreating before the new arrivals. Tho party of scouts had! two men wounded and all their horses shot. The Boers are known to have lost thirty-eight killed and wounded. [Dordrecht is situated in the northeast part of Cape Colony, to the east of the railway that runs from East London to Aliwal North, and in the same latitude as, and about fifty miles from, Molteno, which was General Gatacie'a headquarters immediately before his ill-starred march upon Stormberg. Also, Dordrecht is in a direct line between Aawal Worth and East London, and is in the northern part of the Indwe coalfield, tho railway to which, we were advised yeateiday, has been restored.]
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 5
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