Show FlOUT ATNITRAL9S NEK Boer Report of the Engagement Places the Casualties to Lord Roberts at Over Two Hundred I i I Lincolnshires Lost Half their Officers Including Col Roberts Who was Wounded and Taken PrisonerBritish Fought Stubbornly Until NightfallLord Roberts ffas Sent No Further Advices Regarding the Fight I b < fe 11EC EC J I I London July 13Lord Roberts has sent nothing further concerning the Nltrals Xck affair Pretoria dispatches however show that the Lincolnshires lost half their ofllccrs Including Col Roberts who was wounded and taken prisoner Stragglers continue to arrive at the camp Few further details can be gathered Tho British fought stubbornly until nightfall when the cavalry turned their horses loose The Boer report of the engagement places tho British casualties at over 200 In the Dorclepoort affair mentioned in Lord Robertss dispatch the men 1111 the front rank of the Boers woce khaki 1 uniform and helmets and the Dragoons I passed them unsuspectingly under the I Impression that they were Hussars The mistake was not discovered until I the Boors opened a heavy fire jWhcn jl i the Dragoons were 100 yards distant 1 The prisoners who escaped to Kroon 1 j stad report that Gen De Wets force of 1000 men with largo guns expelled fromj I Bethlehem by Gen Clements and Gen Paget have taken up a standing position posi-tion four miles to the southward in l the hills around Retcif Nek President Steyn Is reported to be with them I I Another case of the Boers wearing khaki Is reported to have happened at LIndlcy on June 26th when they sur prlsod a picket of twentyfive men of the Yorkshire light Infantry 1 eighteen of whom were killed or wounded |