Show belvet 8 S BOLD TACTICS I 1 ilia esca 13 from enair 1 ling ring british column a hold bold incident I 1 beta deta Is ot of genet general at de debets et a escape escare from the general encircling british ca colu in uns ring show that it was one of the boldest me inc dents of the war wt WI eu ell Haas broek a command jo ned tied de vet december I 1 19 some fifteen miles east of I 1 haba N chu general kno was only about at hour d stant and the boer situation appeared I 1 desperate bat de vet was equal to the on dispatch ng iia ila west vard to make a feint at victoria victorm nek ek general de vet prepared to breal through the brit sh columns at bpi ingrati nek pass about four miles al ead at the en trance were t 0 no o fortified posts post while at tritely nas ni as pote I 1 on a hill eastward watch ng ug the boers budden lya magnificent spectacle was presented the whole boer irmy of 9 men started at a gallop in open order tl it lough the net nel I 1 resident steyn and pelt pert four e IL it I 1 chat ch aige me and de vet brought up tl e real 1 11 l e but brit sh all g ins near I 1 tl e drift boomed and rattled incessantly lie I 1 aers first tried tl ti e east varl var I 1 to 10 ite but bering artillery tillery ir alie thea diverged anagal and a loped to the flout of the hill to the westward wl ere ta tie e file of only a s agle post N was as effective the whole maneuver vas a p ece of in magn aan dicent dar ng and its success was complete in spite of the loss of a fifteen and dinty favl pris boners |