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Show IMPERVIOUS TO BULLETS BUT WERE SLAUGHTERED Fanatical Fury of Zulus Did Not Count AgJnit the Trained Soldiers of Great Britain. Durban, Natal. Colonel MansclPs column, which Is pursuing tho Zulu rebels under Chief Ilambaatn, wns attacked at-tacked Sunday by 200 Zulus whllo descending de-scending n precipitous hill near the gmvo of Chief Ccltlwaya. Sixty Zulus were killed. Colonel Mnnsoll had thrco men wounded. Mnnsoll wns engaged In n reconnaissance reconnais-sance from Fort Yollnnd. IIo wns cooperating co-operating with other columns In expelling ex-pelling the rebels from n forest, with a view of cutting Ilnmbnnta off from escape. Ho thought tho Zulu attack-crs attack-crs wcro Ilambaata's men. They numbered num-bered altogether ovor 1,000 men and nttomptcd to employ tho crescent formation for-mation adopted In tho Zulu wnr, and only Colonel Mnnsoll's pmmpt disposition dispo-sition of IiIh forces provented disaster. Tho Zulus displayed desperate fury. Thoy were armed with rllles and assegais, asse-gais, and evidently had been drugged by witch doctors, who pretend to bo ablo to render them Impervious to bullets. |