A STUBBORN FIGHT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 227, 25 September 1907, Page 5

A STUBBORN FIGHT.

!KOPJE TAKEN BY STORM

ISORENGA RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.

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3ffajorfEiliot's troop, numbering 30, pin-sued :Morenga, who was accomparaii.e<l -by "ten Hottentots, wrfteriless track for 48 hours

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Mpt'enga,rposted on a kopje, opened! fire,*t 1000-yards, and fought fiercely|, for fcwx>'hours. ;

Inspector Manders and twsslvej troopers rushed the position underi 4M>ver«of the main body's fire. j

Corpora1! /Hetiwood was killed at -a distance ,-of -ten 'yards. The man wlio shot hkn-wasliniaaediately killed by -,?>, trooper.

More Ega \wa-s i'feund riddled witih; bullets. !

A Geraian ; <Jffi,-c6r accompanying .Major El&dt ;evilogi?ed the operations.

The G<w«sr.m>r <of -German South--west Africa -.waimtly Ranked Sir W. Hely-HutcMsiaon., Governor of Cape t^Colony.