| Show TERRORS OF HOLDING OUT Heavy losses to 10 British In Heroic Resistance to 10 Boers Beers at al I to 10 lIed Iud Henre tl to ondon Feb or of the Associated first de detailed tall tailed 1 description of the SOl soc tie tic from made on December comes from Cram the neuter dent In the hard little town ul toe follows Tito Tho Ita day after Christmas we e made madean an attack on the hoer Doer lines Our seven senn lounders under had bad been dunn the tho night on our left lett front Aft Am d dawn wn broke II a flash and n ml cloud of white s smoke showed they were Vere In action Shot after shot fell rap rapIdly Idly around the position As It grew lighter tb the Joined In rap rapping suing ping automatically and to the right the train crept 1110 slowly wI over oer the plain towArd its Ita destination After that the attack developed with to the east enst ot of Game Gante Trem the tort fort which we wore were attack ek ingi and Vernon mind took up UI their positions to tL a final rush rueh Away tu to the right flank Capt Oven aien with men ot of the rifles were wert to Inter Intercept Intercept or 01 the tho rt re retreat trent treat The Tho armored train under Capt William with a machine gun anti and ran tp lip na as fat as the broken state of the tho line would allow The whole ot of the was corn com by Ma Goodley To the let left letot ot of us were the tho The guns gune under Maj were escorted by It a squadron under Lord Charles The whole corn com by 1 Col were delivering n ft rapid fire Just before time the sun rose roso the III inured train sounded her whistle It H was the signal from Capt Vernon t that hat hI he was IS road ready to rush the tho posItion and to the guns to cease cusa firing As the Iho nun Dun ruse tule we see the tho khaki clad troopers ot of the protectorate regiment eagerly enger forward hardly haNly stop atop stopPing Ping to tire fire waving wang their hats anti and cheering c other on It scarcely seconds before the they ed Into the scrub surrounds the sand bag tort fort and Borne one exclaimed Thea lire are swarming over oer the bags the position Is III ours the tho firing was continuing furIously and ue e walled for It to expecting that the enemy would mur render or be to a 11 man Then there was an anxious lull A start em officer said Our mEn are coming bock back Jt It wu was on only too true trul Slowly sullen Bullen and sulky the men inca tell fell ba bak k those that were left ot of them turning to fire Cre |
