| Show I BRITISH LOSE OSE c c c heavy Price Pall Paid for or the of a Boer Gun at c c t orllo bu but 5 Steer lion Afraid or 2 merle n wills Doer J war r office allies pub publishes lishes the tho following dispatch from Gen Duller from Crom Jon Ion Whites While dated December lUll says Ins Last Col Coi Metcalf and tOO ot of second tine rifle brigade r do to t capture II a Boer on a 11 hili They reached th the crest wIthout being discovered drove droe oft off the enemy and then timen do I time tho howitzer with guncotton a When returning Metcalf found his retreat barred by the tho Doers Boors but bUl ho he forced his way A through using the bay bayonet onet freely The Tho Boors were con The losses were Werl os as follows Ferguson and eleven men killed Cap Capt Pall Second Dlen Davenport Ort Ond LIeu Bond Dond and aM men wounded six air mf men captured who ho had remaIned behind In charge chano ot of the wounded founded With the lime exception ot of Sundays Sundar sortie at Ladysmith detailed above which S the tho morning papers lire are unanimous In a recording ns as a ot of work there or are no further from Crom the Seat or of war warThe The liners DolIS fear time the British ba bayonets This Is 18 In the full tull accounts now arrivIng of It previous sorties It seems that In SIr hilt Archibald hunters from Ladysmith to capture the tho J hoer r guns cuns time the did not carry bayonets While they were Werl stemming the liners BoelS suddenly aroused from sleep rushed to 10 time the edge and opened an In fire fiN upon uvon them hut Ju just t before time British secured a footing ott on the top ot of time tho bill hili some one among them Fix bayonet and give Ive cold rold steel atee At this time till Boer turned and lied into Inlo the Little mention f Is made In time the war or dl dispatches ot of but It is tin on that the tho lus losses ell In this re respect hae bemm exceedingly mong tho alone from 20 tl to ao 30 per cent ot of their mounts have haO been beton shot rota under them the hoer tactics wIng being tl to shoot first at on an horse horst and then time the rIder when whan dismounted The Times while praising Col oh Met brilliant teat feat nt at ex ax JlII presses eR the o opinion that relict beIng so near hear such a sortie was rather perilous and It would be better belle for tor Gen White hito to avoid them so far as 18 po possible elble New York Dec lt to 10 time the from Poughkeepsie says liars that at least on American sol aol dier is II fighting In HON Hoer army tomes om s the Un of N JI j a graduate ot of West who h has east hi Imia tottan a I Ii h re Fe public i i of imi hi cats tn In tim th fl lt ha beo I received IOLI here hert Youn Yeuit k Iq 1 Ion of ct time r moul BUild Ilund f Ih ht army II 11 d HIIr iw Aced NU lm a for tor Point |
