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Show Result of the Fight at Zeefontein. The British war office has issued a list of the British casualties at Zeefontein, December 24t-h, when Col. Firman's camp, consisting of three companies of yeomanry ar-d two guns, was successfully success-fully rushed hy a Boer command under General Dewet. The list indicates the entire success of Dewet's attack. Six officers and fifty men were killed, eight officers were wounded and four are miss ing. . It is pt esumed that the missing officers were taken along with the guns. |