Show doors british lines further evidence of the ability ot ol the boor boer to penetrate the blockhouse lines lineal is contained in a from Hel helbron brou orange river colony which describes how mentz the night of march crossed the line at gottenburg one boer advanced firing his bis rifle two ceta between the blockhouses blockhouse returned this fire and killed the boer and his horse the ibe doers bocra then cut the wire fence and drove in a mob of loose horses which knocked down yards yarda of the fence coz commandant mentz then dashed through with over boera yd the pickets were powerless to stop atop the overwhelming rush |