| Show iN CA T ACRE REPORTS DEFEAT Marched Around All Night and Landed in inan inan an Impossible Position When the Boer Attack Came Caine Thought bought to Surprise the Was Underestimated Fought lIard uns Retreat Retreated ed Fighting for Nine uns Remarkably Well Vell Loss Heavier Than First Steyn Reports the Item of News Regarding g gOen Oen Bullers have Flanked the Boers great Indignation in England Ingland ut at Ignorance of Intelligence Department Dee D war omco has t the o following from General londaY Dee Dec 11 G as ibe Ide Idea to attack to certain sUcCess but bute e It tance ra vas underestimated by bylIe lIe iud IU tb local es A police ru took us round some miles and we were from I P m iL until f 4 II a m and were landed II u position I do not er the error Intentional KIl commenced from top ot an bill and wn t ft a good fOod many nany ot of our plain The second Northum Nor thum tried to turn out the enem enemy hi The flo second Irish a koPie near anI nd held bell on sup ciel b by the mounted Infantry and under J 24 pe police The gunS A not have been better handled But Dut lugret to say lay that one run gun was over oer Ira In IL a deep deeD mullah and another in k nd Neither could be in III time to be available the Ibe situation n a dispatch wu 1 sent to Molteno WIth the theLL LL J I collected and withdrew our I from ridge to for tor about nine nino nineTh Th 1110 Doer guns were remarkably SID In They c carried accurately I yards I am l l tk ud sa lam s l the ther r rides and aad to to recuperate The wound rl to Queenstown The te missing m not O as previously reo re Dee hu ha stat lent the following details of off f it at Junction British with six cannon nt at the Doers under and tv LYt and stormed the Doers on en Itt hed l positions on the kopjes kopu After I sTere Imre they were compelled to fr are 1 Major Sturges six tf and noncommissioned om mi em a men nien pf ot the us to and about SO noncom officers and men of the Irish Jt It Is Impossible to state the tho numb number ot of dead or wounded British The Doers captured three cannon and two nm am ammunition wagons London D Dee almost c m pleto absence of news from the tho thelL theatte ot of war up to this afternoon Increases Public anxiety so deeply stirred by saturdays disaster Such scanty messages as have dribbled throuGh seem to Indicate that preparations ore are about for simul simultaneous attacks at Tugela rIver and dispatches showing that the British and Doers were In touch In both directions Monday There Is no confirmation of the report I ot of another daylong battle along the tho dodder Modder river Monday but possibly there has hIlS been Q a resumption of lighting as reported by Gen Oen CronJe Cronie last even III lug all as the searching shell tire fire of was 11 probablY a 11 preliminary to nn an advance A trance strange Item of news new has bas reached here from HOEr Boer sources announcing that the bridge I is darn dam aged This Is taken In some quarters ns as asa n a possible confirmation of the suggestion tion that the British have made n a wide sweep by wa way of and are ale preparing to attack the Boers north of Ladysmith In the rear A message from dated Monday Monda Dec 11 shows that Oen I French rench has apparently no Inclination to withdraw his advanced troops troop at Arundel as It was Wall feared mIght be the result of Gen Oen defeat Gen French reports that his hb artillery artiller on December II 11 forced an advance post ot of I the Doers south to position and seek leek refuge refue behind I There Is great indignation In En Eng England land at the Ignorance the tho British In bureau is II displaying In estl esti estimating mating the tho Doer strength In Cape Colony Colon Experts aver that Doers will viiI have to bo be driven out ot of the colon colony before the tho passage of at the Orange Omnie river can be commenced The Rhodesian force torce advancing to the relief relict ot of Mafeking reached tort fort Dec 2 and round the Doers had evacuated the place The are the railroad as the they ad advance vance vanco The Tho latest news from show that Col hu has been forced to reduce the ot of the tho garrison and Inhabitants but water is II plentiful there 1 |
