Show MORE BRITISH FILLED Made Sortie Pron Zadywi th With p jtadysth DiastrousBesuits LODodn Dee i Te war of e pub lsbe3 the folowlnglgatch from Gen c Bule Dispatch from General White dated Dec U says Lat igQt Colonel Met cal and 100 of the Send rifle brigade srted to capture aBoer howitzer on a hill They reached the crest without beIng disoovered d ve of the enemy lsovt and then petOY dfve bowlzer with guncotton gnctton Wien geturniut Metcalf found his rtr nt banedib thc Bqers1 but ht forced his way thrbuim usinT the bayonet bay-onet freely The BOtc losses were con sIdeable The British loss were a alnj Lieutenant Ferguson and eleven men kiihel CaptaIn Paley Second Lieutenant Davenport Second Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Bond and fortyone men wounded sIx men capture who had remaIned behind In char hI the ounded |