NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.
[BY SUBMARINE CABLE.] Mklbouene, April 16. Arrived—Siam, at Albany, this morning. Fuller accounts of the Sandella disaster state that the Zulus, marching in regular order, invaded Natal, when they encountered Colonel Glyn’s columns, wdiich kept the Zulus at bay for several hours. Ammunition failed, and the Zulus advanced with demonaical yells. A fearful struggle ensued. The Zulus hurled the corpses of their comrades on the British bayonets, thus overcoming resistance. The British were literally hewn down. The losses of the Imperial army was 786 men and 51 officers, Colonial forces, 110 whites and 21 officers. The health of the remainder of Glyn’a column is bad.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1609, 17 April 1879, Page 3
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