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Show British Defeated at Stormberg. London, Dec. 11. The British force under Gen. Gatacre has been repulsed b' the Boers near Stormberg. It is hardly too much to regard the repulse as the most serious defeat British arms have sustained in the whole campaign. Already the official advices show that two men were killed, nine officers and seventeen men were wounded and nine officers and 596 men are missing. But it is evident that the worst is not yet known. The proportion of wounded and killed is so small when compared with the missing who are undoubtedly prisoners in the hands of the Boers that the supplementary list of casualities is awaited with serious misgivings. It is feared: that there were serious losses of guns and arma-j arma-j ment. |