LATER PARTICULARS.
HOW THE BBIHBS, AT TA.OKED* BEPUL9ED WITH /.TERRIBLE HRE. ENEMY SEVERELY PUNISHED Capetown, Decembar 14. At Magerafonteio the Bjew, at the foot of the eastern spur, waicei on Monday till before daybroak.
The Highlanders, marching m olose order, quarter column, within two hundred yards of the enemy, commenced to extend at 150 yards ; and then the Boers poured a terrible fire into, the flaaks. Hundreds Ml on the veld*, the Boers shooting high. Our loss otherwise would have been heavier, The Highlanders took refuge m a hollow, the Gordons joining them. All fought with desperate valor to within 200 yards of the spur, when they were repulsed by a concentrated fire * u-i Lyddite shells were meanwhile poured with terrible effect into the enemy's trenches, the Horse Artillery enfilading the trenohes with a raking fire. Later on the Boers advanoed into the open, intending to make a flank attack, but the Guards and Artillery prevented the movement. General Methuen commanded 11,000 men. He retired, expeoting an attack on the flank and the rear from Jacobsdal. v
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 294, 15 December 1899, Page 2
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177LATER PARTICULARS. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 294, 15 December 1899, Page 2
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