... State Government, bur were subsequently released. The cuter loyalist .stores and help themselves to the stock, while others guard the entrance with rifles. (From the Special C of the Dally Telegraph** to “The Yorkshire Post.**) Cape Town, Wednesday, scheme ...

... gunners undertook a new departure in bombardment. A few minutes be- fore midnight every gun which they had bearing upon the town fired a round. The effect on Ladysmith was magical. A weird scene met the gaze a few seconds after the first mght sheil burst in ...

... the Ladysmith gallant garrison lie required to lie low behind their works. The relief column will surely free their from' guarding the town and camp, and will enable thorn to cut in upon the retreating commandos. To-day General Buller has within hail force ...

... to wounded and dying. Stretcher bearers in small parties eMemnied reach the firing line. Init were forced to seek refuge from buffets behind antbeans. of the Grenadier Guards, who was wounded severely in the foot one of the enemy shells, crept back to ...

... open, and from cover overwhelm them with fire. For not many days more will the Ladysmith gallant gacrison be required to lie low behind their works. The relief column will surely free their hands from guarding the town and camp, and will enable them to ...

... deliver a flank attack. This is also apparently the opinion of the Boers, for while they continue to hold the bills, which guard in some degree the passage the Tugela twenty miles eastward of Colenso, they have sent force westward in contemplation of movement ...

... warning to the 9th Brigade not to fire upon the first, of which there was some danger. BONG-BONG-BONG.” At the battle of Modder River the 1b. Maxim gun was the most effective weapon used by the Boers. The five or six shots fired in one secord while the gun ...

... drawing the cnemy’s fire. The Boers epened a heavy rifle fire at extreme range, and afterwards brought into action two quick-firing ficld picees, a Maxim-Nordenfeld gun, and a Maxim. Their artillery fire was not well directed, and the ife ...

... rifle, or mounted, has throughout been to court systematic fire at whatever range : [ and question for war correspondents to con-ider whether, for such of them prefer to sec the fight from the firing line, it not necessary carry such carbine. There can little ...

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... that | Bacon could not have caught one of us. They | A hot fire all the time, and we had to get | could, i wiial 4 \ 1 We It was only through the mercy Ge i ‘ that vot through that terrible fire, and our | ...

... reported many Boer waggons retiring along Ulundi Road, with small guard; so all the mounted troops cleared out ventre a tene 4 a.m. cut them off; got to nice place 15 miles off, and found guard of 2,000. As we were only we turned and came home. (Sunday).—Gourral ...