ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
CABLE NEWS.
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBS.
London, April 16. THE ZULIF WAE.
Colonel Wood lost seven officers and seventy men in repulsing the Zulus. Six thousand British troops have started to relieve Colonel Pearson.
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The Zulu War.
Latest Cape News.
London, April 17. Capetown, April 1.
The relieving forces started for Ekowe yesterday. They consisted of 6000 men, with G-atling guns and a rocket column. The troops are in good health. On the 30th Colonel Pearson signalled from Ekowe that 200 of the garrison were disabled, and only 500 effective. It is stated that 35,000 Zulus await the arrival of th fl relieving force at Ekowe. Two thousand Zulus attacked Colonel Wood's camp near Luneberg. Severe fighting lasted four hours. The enemy were repulsed. The British loss was seven officers and seventy men.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1610, 18 April 1879, Page 2
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