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Show HAD A BUSY WEEK. Both Briton and Boer Have nn Unusually Un-usually Lively Time in South Africa With Heavy Losses London. Feb. JO A report received todny from Lord Kitchener at Pretorl I hbows last week to hnvo been tho liveliest live-liest week, with the heivlest losses on both sides, for Kcvcrnl months; past. Lord Kitchener gives the Boer casualties casual-ties nt n totHl of slxty-nlnn killed, fifty-seven fifty-seven Bunendeied and 57t taken prlson-eis. prlson-eis. 'J ho British ciptured i0 rifles, ono pnni pom and tho usual prist of munitions muni-tions ii ml live stoc k, 'ihe most seilous British lo3 during tho week wn the capture of sixty donkoj wagons convoed b 1C0 troops At n point lhlil tulles from Bcaufort-vvost, Bcaufort-vvost, Cnpo Colony, tho enemy swept down on thn donkey wagons nnd cut up tho convoy be fora asslstnnco nrrlved Ihev weio able to rcmoio only twelve of tho wagons, nnd burned tho rest. In this engurement tho British Inst two olllceis nnd eleven men killed nnd one ofllcer unci forty-seven men wounded while the Hciem lost twenty-fout killed and fortj live wounded Tho Boors nlso lushed a detachment of 100 men or C ol Dornn s column the night of rcbriinn 3rd when tho British lost three nfllceis and seven men klllec ami seventeen men wounded. Von Donep surprised Potgleter's longer near Wolmarstndt Tinnsvaa colon j, I'ebruary 7th killing thieo Boers nnd capturing thlrty-slx, ns well as twent-tlve wagons and livestock. |