FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA
ENEMY SURPRISED (Rec. May 3, 0.10 a.m.) Caps Town, May 2. Official.—Colonel Mackenzie't. flying column performed a brilliant feat. They pushed forward 120 miles from Bethany over the most difficult and arid country, with scarcely any transport facilities, and surprised the enemy entraining at the Gideon station. A> small party destroyed the line north of Gideon, and tile column captured the whole train and a quantity of live 'stock. The 9th Brigade heavily engaged the enemy at night, but withdrew after suffering heavy casualties,, including the loss of seventy prisoners. Two brigades attacked at dawn and dispersed and pursued the enemy, who was eight hundred strong, for twenty miles, recovered all the prisoners, captured several guns and Maxims, and also made two hundred prisoners. But for the difficult "rockv ground they would have surrounded the enemy. Three Union officers and twenty men were killed, and eight officers and 45 men wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 6
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155FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 6
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