Show ARE DEFEATED BEATEN IN DATTLE BY BOERS AT london jan 5 tho war office lias received through general foresther Fo walker at cape town the following dispatch from col daden powell dated december we attacked one of tho this morning endeavoring to push back the cordon northward our force consisted of three guns two sona drons of the protectorate regiment one of the armored train etc tho enemy ban their works during the and doubled the garrison since i nevertheless our attack was car rieta out and pressed bome with the possible gallantry and steade cepe under a very heavy ire but all efi orts to gain the interior by escalade failed the fort being practically pug our attack only withdrew after six of our officers and a large number of jsn had been hit nothing could have exceeded the courage and dach displayed the general situation remains unchanged and the health and spirits of the garrison are very satisfactory I 1 regret to report the following casualties killed capt R J varnon capt II 11 C sanford aleut H C patton eighteen commissioned noncommissioned non officer and troopers capt charles altz twenty uon commas signed officers and troopers prisoners three troopers ron forestier walker points out that whilo the gives all the names it falls to show that sia officers vire vi re hit the times publishes the following dispatch from mafeking Mafe king dated december at dawn today col baden powell organized an unsuccessful attack upon a strong position of the enemy at Game tree two miles from mafeking Mafe king from which the doers have been maintaining a desultory but annoying shell and rifle fire for several weeks tho railway has recently been between abo town and Game tree where the boers toad destroyed it tho final repairs being made in preparation for the sortie during ahe night tho armored train with maxim and hotchkiss guns u her capt williams and troopers goolt up position for from two saw capt alord charles and squadron were in reserve on the left while the extreme left wing was by artillery under mal pan zera and a galloping maxim ot the cap police the whole being under col hwe em placements were thrown up during the night tho orders being to attack at dawn and the artillery fire to desist upon prolonged tooting from the armored train at daybreak the guns op coed fire and rapidly drew the reply from the enemy our shells bursting within effective range capt vcr non gave the signal to cease firing nn to advance his squadron leading off As our men engaged the rosl tion with the rifle alro it was soon found that the strength of the fort was gloater ithan we had supposed ohp concentrated such an exceed ildy hot fire that the advance ot capt was almost impossible but rui remarkable heroism and gallantry caits sanford and vernon liehr pilton and scout cooke who guided the and a few men actually reached the sand bags of the fort three hundred yards of the area of the fort but nothing living could exist there since the ground was swept by mauser and martini bullets the men who elt arged through this zone of fire suffered terribly and in following their to capture the fort twenty men lost their lives capt sanford was ui first to tall and capt vernon already twice wounded and aleut ratton were killed at the foot of the fort those two officers climbing a ditch asich surrounded the tort thrust their revolvers through the loopholes only to be shot themselves the acm moment Game tree is surrounded with scrub which contained ganv sharpshooters ari their accuracy of fire still fur tiie confused contused cont used the men who had followed capt vernon and who saw him and his brother officers killed being commanders they were driven olt at one point but they endeavored to scale the tort at others they found the position of the boers however almost impregnable when we retired under cover 0 the armored train so many men had been wounded that a suspension of hostilities occurred under the auspices of the rod cross the veldt around the boer position was at once dotted with lags of mercy and it was seen that our wounded were scattered within but a short radius of the fort we had almost completely comple fely surrounded it and had it not been so extraordinarily well protected we should have been in coq i 1 went with an ambulance to game tree the tort itself is circular with a wide interior and a narrow frontage six and seven feet high pierced with triple tiers of loophole and surrounded by a ditch 1 I was permitted to assist in dressick dres the wounds a majority of which ay spared to have been caused by explosive bullets the point of entry being small but the area ot injury covering a wide region while the wounded being attended numbers of boers left their and gathered around us at the conclusion of the dessing I 1 spoke to several tattered and dirty but physically hue men many of them were undersized and all wore beards they referred me to the field cornet who denied the use of explosive bullets on being shown the horrible rounds he admitted that at one time explosive bullets had been served out but he said he was certain they had all been expended and that none could have been used on this occasion he then produced a bandoleer bandolier ban dolier filled with dum dums and I 1 pointed out that as far as was concerned these the se had been recalled later on I 1 called the attention of the field cornet to four of his own men ft ho were rifling dead bodies he ex his regret to a that despite his instructions to respect tiie dead the younger boers were un ruly and beyond his control and a cited the british soldiers ol 01 stripping CPU kock and leaving him naked and wounded on the field thus indirectly causing his death the correspondent then describes a scene of angry recriminations between th 1 field cornet and the bocis regard aig the existence of orders about the dead and also about the facts themselves acome of the boers assert in that they only took arms despite the removal at that very moment of tho bodies of five british under boer escort with the pockets of their uniforms turned inside out |