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Show DULLLfl DUFEATED. rngstemerl Near !itrn. Ite.tlla la tlerl.le.1 lluer yltlnrj. London Dee 17 The war ofllce hat received a dispatch announcing that (leneral Iluller hat met with s serious reverse, losing eleven guns. (leneral Duller wat attempting to crott lha Tugela river r lading It Impossible Im-possible lo accomplish hit object, ha ordered a retirement In order to avoid greater losses Ha loft eleven gunt behind The following Is the text of General Holler's dlspitch announcing hit reverse re-verse ' Chlrveley Camp, Dec 10, o 50 p m I regret to report a serious reverse. I niovm In full strength fromourcamp near Lhlercley at 4 o'clock this morning morn-ing There are two fordable places on the Tugela river, and It wat my Intention Inten-tion to force a passage through at one of them, They are about two miles apart "My Intention was to force one or the other with one brigade, (leneral Hart wat to attack the left drift, (leneral (len-eral llllyard tho right road, and (lea. eril Littleton wit to take tha center tnd to support either. Ktrly In the day I aaw that (leneral Hart would not be able to force a passage, and I directed direc-ted him to withdraw He had, however, how-ever, ntlacked with grrat gallantry, and lilt leading battalion, tha Con-naught Con-naught rangers, I fear, suffered a great deal Colonel I, 0 llrooka wit severely se-verely wounded. "I then ordered (leneral llllyard to advance, which he did and hit leading regiment, the Hnat .Surrey, occupied Colento station nnd tha houses near the bridge "At that moment I heard that the whole artillery I had sent to support the nttack the fourteenth and sixty-sixth sixty-sixth Held batteries and six naval twelve-pounder quick tlrer under Col oncl Long, had advanced closo to the river In Ionga dtslro to be nt clots range It proved to In) full of the enemy ene-my who suddenly opened a galling lira al close range, killing all their horse and the gunners were compelled com-pelled to stand lo their guns, Some ot the wagon teams got shelter for troop In n donga, and dtspcrate efforts were being made to bring out the Held gun. "The lire, however, wa too severe, ind only two were saved " |