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Show The Zulu Hnr. London, 19. Col. Wood's column was attacked on January 2-ith, by 4,000 Zulus. Tbe enemy were dispersed dis-persed with but trifling loea to Col. Wood's command. Several attacks on Pearson's column and other col umns bave been repulsed, but the orrtwittr nf tho oitnatinn hoa nnl htcn exaggerated. Tne enemy are concentrating con-centrating toward Ekowe, where Pearson is entrenched. A grand attack at-tack ia daily expected. Col. Wood is falling back to cover Utrecht. Cape Town, Jao, 29. Unless attacked at-tacked the British forcea will confine their operations to the maintenance of a italu quo and tbe retention of a strategetical position on tbe border until strongly reinforced. Two hundred hun-dred volunteers from Port Elizabeth will relieve tbe Eighty-eighth regiment regi-ment at King William's town, so as to permit the Utter to go to tbe front, |