MORE ABOUT THE STORMBERG FIGHT.
GENERAL GATACRE'S EXPLANATION. (Received Dec. 14, 0.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. • General Gatacre telegraphs that the idea of the attack seemed to promise certain success. The distance was under-estimated. A policeman led the force round some miles, landing them in an impossible position, but he did not consider the man's error intentional. The Boers occupied an unscaleable hill, and wounded many British in the open. The Northumberland:-, attempted to eject the enemy, but failed. The Irish Rifles seized a kopje. The Mounted Artillery, supporting the Artillery under Major Jeffreys, worked splendidly, bub one gun overturned, and the second sank in a quicksand. The force was "withdrawn from ridge to ridge for nine miles. The Boer guns -were remarkably well served, and the firing was accurate up to 5000 yards' range. CAPETOWN, Dec. 13. Three thousand Transvaalera have rein-
forced Burghersdorp, and threaten Bushmans Hock. General Gatacre lolds the latter place.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6668, 14 December 1899, Page 1
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