ZULU ARMY TRAPPED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8204, 7 August 1906, Page 3

ZULU ARMY TRAPPED.

«. CLEVER MIDNIGHT MAFOEUVRE. EXCITING PURSUIT. b'nmba£>ta has joined fcJiganauda ■with the remnant of the great .rebel impi smashed by Colonel ' Moivenzio yesterday. The disheartened ;aurvi\~orß aie hiding in the dougas and gpruits. Particulars of the fight show that MehloKKZulu, tlio rebel general, thought that the wbito troops' Sunday reßt presented an opportunity to iitea'l through uoobaotved. A NATIVE SPS T discovered the plan, and Colonel MoKenzie sent detachments of the Traußvaal Irregulars and tbe Militia tu occupy positions commanding the rebels' path, which lay through the bottom of a yawnihg gome. JBueh and boulder afforded goad cover, and a swirling mist cwst ihe valley into yet deeper darkness 09 the two bodies of troops—under Colonel MoKenzie and Captain Dick respectively—moved warilv, stifling all sounds, along tbe opposite t*nks of the gorge. Half a dozen rebels found the Transvaalers , and returned to the main body to raise the alarm. Daylight was just breaking, and |REVEALED THE REBELS hastily gathering their belongings, oatohing their horses, extinguishing their fires, and making all reauy for a hurried departure. All at unoe a general oommand seemed to be passed down the rebel ranks, tbe moving figures coalesced, and in two closelymassed oolnmns tbe Zulus rushed towards the mouth of the gorge, where the Transvaalers were on guard. A heavy volley was poured into the rebels at a hundred and fifty. yardß. It was impossible to see much in the half-light, nut the advanoing mass slowed up, lost momentum, and stopped. Then the Zulus broke ana ran, the groans and SHRIEKS OP THE WOUNDED ris'-ng above the rush of the retreat. There was stillness for a space of three miautes, and then the sound of stealthy progress along the slope. Then came flashes from the Bhadow and several of the peculiar reports of Mnider rifles. The Volunteers dropped behind cover. Captaiu MoFarlane was direoting the fire standing beside a tree-trunk •with the glasses applied to his eyes, when a bullet whistled up the gorge. The offlaer convulsively straightened himself and flung bis arms into the air. "My God," he sobbed, and

FELL AT A CORPORAL'S FEET shot through the heart. Then came a volley from the enemy, and several Transvaalers were hit. Half a troop was despatched to tarn the iebelß who doubled baok into the gorge, and were driven on to the men under Colonel MoKenzie and Colonel Barker. Lieutenant Maraden in riding down one of the Zulu parties was shot in the aodomen, dropped from bis horse, and rolled down the hillside. He suffered cruelly from a hideous wound in the groin, lingering for six hours before he died. The rebels concentrated ' their efforts to make good the passage of the gorge at the end of which is Sigananda's stronghold. Scores of black, writhing bodies littered the etdny ground and groans, imprecations, and shrieks mingled with the rapid clatter of hoofs, the shouts of the fugitives, and the unceasing oraoklw of rifles. A young officer, chasing a rebel of huge stature, managed to drop him with a revolver shot in the baok of the bead. The giant turned out to be Mehlokazulu,, the rebel leader, and THE FINEST GENERAL the Zulus have bad since Obaka's day. Dozens of the rebels were discovered hiding in crevices beneath tie hushes, and prodded out with their own asegaiß. A running fight followed, and some hundred rebels managed to gain the bush, IJambaata, without horse or accoutrements, and armed with a single stabbing asegai being among the foremost. in driving the bush fifty more rebels were killed, the total dead being over 300. Numbers of Zulub are surrendering but the rebels have a good supply uf food, and the work of the troops is not yet over.