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Show DIE "AT THii fll Canadian Rifles Dist!nnu Themselves. MAKE A DESPERATE $., ' One Party in tho H,ghbsi. Hart's Bivor, SouthWc,t Ex( of Transvnnl and Under Cob'5 of Lieut. Carruthers, rirt. !' Every Member Is EUhetK Woundcd-Severe right tho British rinally R, Boers Losses on Both sides H London, April 4 There severe lighting nil tn ,u Match 31st In the nelghboriS of Harts river. In the $" v ern extremity of the Tran.,,. v betw -en pnrt of Cicn Kit het.l force nnd the forces of Oeni rw 'arcy nnd Kemp, resulting n Z repulse of tho Ho rs nftfr h, losses on both sides The Ci (linn nines especially ai,.,! gttlshcd themselves, one ,. connnund-d by Ll at nruc, c ruthers holding its post , ' cicrymnnwaHkllledorwojnj Lord Kitcheners oilldal reW dnteii from Tretorla. je.uX evening sn)a ' BOHRS m:PULSKD "Ocn Kitchener (Lord Kites cner's brother) rent Cols Ktt and Cookson from Vrlekult,nt cm Transvaal, March 31t to tn I connolter towari Harts river 1 They soon atruck the track ot guns and carried on a runnlnii light for eight miles, foltowini , the track through the buiji LmcrgltiB on a plnln, large Bat, 1 relnfor -ments advanced atiniti their flanks, forcing Ihe Btituut troops to tuke up a defnuibn poiltlon, which they hastily en 1 trenched Plghtlng ensued in close quarters until the Boen ' wcro repulsed on nil sides Dt , late), Kemp and other leaden vainly nttemited lo persuad, 1 their ni"n to renew the action. - ' 1 If tec t hundred Hoera parild 1 pa'cd lit tho engagement, but the) had suffered loo heaillymi ( clenrlnway to the norttmtit I an 1 south Tho Hrltlih losses t ulso wcio severe . 1 OUcSlIT TO Till: TEATIL ' Th" Cnnadlan Hides especial I I ly distinguished themselves on party, comma ided by Ltaiui Drum t arruthers holding m ( post until every man was kllltlt orwounled Others of the form showed Brent steadiness, allot. Ing the liocrs to advance slthln SOU J ii 1 cl m of thein and repelling t them with a steady rifle fire" 4 ttttttt ttn |