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... advancing to attack them, and c they kept up an intermittent fire of musketry till midnight. The British infantry did not fire a shot. The promptness of the Boers' response to our gun fire seems to show that they are living in their trenches. Natives ...

... Nordenfelt guns fired several rounds at the cavalry. Further still to the East on the kopje, which juts out in a southerly direction, is a gun apparently to run on rails. After firing the shot it disap- o^-a round tho back of the kopje and fires another ?? ...

... Lord Winchester after the battle of Modder Rivor to the Duke Portland. Lord Winchester, who was a major in the Coldstream Guards, was kii'.od Magersfontein: Oamp. Modder River. South Africa.—»We have been very bury fighting our way up from Orange Riv> ...

... CAMPS. Pretoria. Friday. News Tflkgram.) The offices of the Bruith Agency Pretoria Sunday. December 24. continue to carefully guarded by order the (B? mau.r, .i. P et.rm.ntmb.rj, Tremvul Oov.rnment, . tb. gramd. Ij.mj December 28. 10.5(1 a.m.| . were ...

... the godowns, were set on fire by the explosion, and a large amount of rattans and matting was destroyed. The firemen were busily engaged for some time extinguish- 1 ing the subsidiary fires occasioned by the explosion. The fire at the leather godown was ...

... Fordyce of -Bruoklsy has, with nis I usual liberality, made a present of game to the 3 . Bruokly seatiom staff. also to the guards, drivers, I and firemen on the Fraserburh iseerion of the, Great North line of railway. MIr Rudyard Kipling ir confined to ...

... encountered in tho western portion of Capo Colony threaten ir.g the railway line to Aar Junction. lively exchange of rill® fire took place near Victoria Hoad Station during the night. A patrol despatched daybreak reported that onoroy had disappeared, ...

... our is doe epee and from cover overwhelm them with fire. For sot &ye will the Ladysmith gallnot gamma be matured to , li. low behind their works. The relief column will suety free their hand. from guarding the I sad maps, and will enable them to est I in ...

... there were 30,000 men available for the defence between Durban and Goiania, including the garrisons that had been left to guard Escromt and .Maritz• burg, and we may reckon the latest pews to indicate that the foroe that General Buller have to-day or ...

... Hoers in possession. Twenty volun-| teers fell killed and wounded, inclading Capt. Kpapp, before a squadron of the sth Dragoon Guards, sent out post haste, relioved the pressure. The skirmish was di’nfied by a gallant deed on the part of Lieut. IHon. Pommeroy ...

... slowly creeping on. At 8.45 the Guards Brigade west forward with a rush. It simply rained bullets on them. Big guns, machine guns, rifle fire, the gro,.d around them seemed alive, and men were dropping thickly. The Scots Guards Maxim detachment was absolutely ...