Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-11 | Page 3 | Britons and Boers Had a Lively Week

BRITONS RI AND D BOERS B BA HAD A LIVELY WEEK Kitchener Kitchen Reports Both S Sides des to Have Rave Had Heaviest Heaviest Loss Losses s for Some Months Past J LOND LONDON N Feb 11 A A r report p rt received yesterday from Lord Kitchener enel at Pretoria Pretoria Pretoria Pre Pre- toria shows last week week- week to to have b been the liveli liveliest st week with the heaviest losses on b both th sides for several months past Lord Kitchener gives gives the Boer casualties casualties casualties casual casual- ties at a total of sixty nine killed fifty fifty- ty- ty sev seven en surrendered red and taken prisoners prison prison- ers erL The British captured rifles one pom porn pom porn and the usual l grist of munitions munitions munitions muni muni- and live stock TH Tri The ine e most serious se serious ious British joss loss was during durin TH Tri The ine e most serious se serious ious British joss loss was during durin ethe the week was as the capture of sixty donkey wagons wag convoyed by troops At a pol point t thirty miles niiles' from Beaufort- Beaufort west Cape Colony the enemy swept down on on the donkey o key wagons and cut up the convoy before assistance arrived They were were- able to remove only twelve of the wagons and nd burned the rest Inthis In Inthis Inthis this engagement the British lost two officers and eleven men Killed and one officer and seven forty-seven men w wounded while the Boers lost twenty-four twenty killed and forty-five forty wounded The Boers also rushed a detachment of 10 X men of ot Col Dorans Doran's column the night of February 3rd w when en the British British lost tl three tee officers and seven men Killed I and seventeen men men wounded Von surprised laager sager near Transvaal colony February killing three Boers and capturing a t ing thirty six as as well as twenty-five twenty wago wagons s and and livestock