Show BRITISH LOSS BIG DIG I Inv Boers Helvetia i 11 London Dec SI telegraphing from Pretoria Sunday Dec O says r rTh Th c post at t Helvetia was surprised at a 8 in the enemy first a 47 gun At dawn the officer com commanding c m manding the post at sent sen t tout out a petrol patrol and shelled the enemy out of Helvetia making them abandon the gun temporarily The fhe Boers Beers however I former fonner our prisoners pris around the gun and got away aay eventually No ammu ammunition I belonging to the gun n was cap captured captured I The casualties were four I cars cers wounded eleven men killed and wounded A column was sent out from Macha but owing I to bad roads it failed to arrive in time Lord Kitchener in a later dispatch to the war office dated Pretoria Dec Dee DecSI SI 31 1 says Hays saysA A small portion of the force which entered the colony to the east broke away in a southwestern direction and crossed the railway at a point be he between between tween Bangor and Sherborne They did some damage to the railway The column under Williams will wilt be m hi touch with this body today The force which entered the colony to the west passed the road from Car Carnavon Carnavon navon to Victoria west at 7 yes yesterday morning They wei eI trying I south and were ere closely cosely i by and Delisle e eVery t Very few recruits from the colony olony Joined the enemy Hertogs Hertog men are already ready dropping their worn horses borses I It is now ascertained that the Boers Doers who trekked tn westward from and who were supposed to be going to are making for tor the Pries ka ks district of oC Cape Colony A dispatch from Cradock says fa faThe The Boers burned an empty goods train near Junction The authorities at have sent the omen women away awny to Cradock It is reported that tha tk h a Commando ha hal crossed ero ed the line and is making toward Middleburg |