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Round Up Body of Brabant's Horace
men Near ZaxtrOn.

Round Up a Body of Brabant's Horace
men Near ZaxtrOn.
A dispatch from Ahwal North, Cape Col
ony, dated December 16, says: party of
Brabant's Horse, consisting mainly of re-
c1uits, engaged a force Of Beers Decem-
Der 18 near Zastron, Orange Free State,
losing four killed. sixteen wounded and l20
taken prisoners. The English say the Bosr
force was superior in number.
The following dispatch has been received
by the office from Lord Kitchener,
dated at Pretoria. December 16:
Five officers and 316 men. Magaliesburg
prisoners. have been released
The Beers surrounded and captured 40
of Braoants Horse in defile in the East
ron district
Colonel Bloomfield. moving on Vryheid,
defeated the Beers with heavy loss driving
them from Scheepers Mex and capturing g
quantity Of arms The Scheepers Mex
movement occurred December 13. The Beers
who attacked Vryheid December 10 lost 100
killed and wounded before they retired.
The fighting lasted all day. the enemy
drawing off at 7:3O pm. The British loss
was six killed, nineteen wounded and thirty
missing. Our casualties include two Off
GERS who died OF their wounds
Wiring from Pretoria again Lord Kitch-
ener, after announcing that the released
Magaliesburg or Nooitgedacht prisoners
have arrived at Rustenberg, says that the
Boer force divided into two portions one
moving south and the other west. The total
number captured by the Beers in the Mag
alieSburg was 573.
A dispatch from The Hague says that in
| reply to a dispatch from Grand Rapids,
Mich. inviting him to the United States,
President Kruger has wired that he has
not arrived at any decision with regard to
visiting America.
The Magalesberg affair is described as
follows in dispatch to the Standard from
Rietfontein:
"The scene of the engagement was
horseshoe-shaped depression. The North
umberlands occupied the center. Gen.
Clements pitched 1000 yards lower
down. at the eastern point Of the horse
shoe, and Col. Legge's camp was about 500
yards distant
Gen Delareys 1000 men, against whom
Gen. Clements had fought repeated ac-
tions, were suddenly, unknown to Gen.
Clements. reinforced by 5000 men from
Warm Baths, under Commandant Boyers.
At daybreak Col. Legge's picket deserted
what seemed a fresh force Of British troops
eighty yards distant. The strangers were
challenged. They replied with a volley,
revealing 400 Beers In khaki. The firing
became heavy. and the noise aroused Col.
Legge's troops. who arrived just in time to
save the outposts from capture.
"a furious engagement ensued. Artillery
was brought up. and 1t compelled the Beers
to retire. Col. Legge. following up the with
drawal, was shot dead by bullet through
his head.
Gen. Clements and his staff soon ar
rived. The staff suffered severely, but Gen.
Clements appeared to have charmed life.
while mounted men were driving the
enemy back along a slope covered thickly
with Boer dead, a deafening rifle fire sud-
denly broke on the plateau above. The
sgnalers photographed that the Northum-
berlands were being attacked. Gen Glenn
ents, convinced that they would easily hold
their own, disposed the remainder of the
forces the tanks and rear Of his two
camps.
"At 4:9O am. a heliograph from the west
ern peak announced that the Beers were
hp1f fn nVQrWhaln EilSiliarS
Clements was unable to send adequate
help, but dispatched Yeomanry to climb the
PERCEPTIONS hillside and create diversion.
Before the Yeomanry could come into ac-
tion the Beers had overlapped the North
umberlands and were in possession of the
entire horseshoe, firing down on the Yeo-
manry entangled in the bushes and bould-
erS
1.-The Northumberland made a magnif-
cent defense 80 long their ammunition
lasted. According to the Boer accounts
many, even when resistance was hopeless,
died fighting.
Gen. Clements, now left with 100 men.
made superhuman efforts against the bull
lets from the Beers, pouring over the peaks
and managed to save his guns and camp
equipment. He retired in splendid order.
and at pm. started to march to Riet-
fontein, fighting a rear guard action all the
way and arriving the next day at am"
Lord Methuen. according to another dis
patch from Lord Kitchener, dated yester-
day, attacked and captured Boer Lager
near Lichtenburg, Transvaal, December IA,
securing large supplies Of cattle and sheep
and a considerable quantity of ammuni-
ton.
A further dispatch from Lord Kitchener.
dated Pretoria, December 16, says that LORD
Methuen has official confirmation OF the re-
port of the death of Gen. Lemner. the Boer
commander.
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