A DESPERATE FIGHT.
BRITISH STRUGGLE AGAINST GREAT ODDS. VICTORIANS SUFFER TERRIBLY. (Received 20,10.3G p.m.) London, February 20.
A troop of tlio lnniakilling Dragoons and the Victorian Mounted Hides defended a kopje west of Bastard's Nek, in the Oolesburg district, until the enemy opensd upon them with the forty-pounder. Then they took up a position at Hobkirk's Farm, which they tenaciously defended. 5 The British only numbered hundreds against thousands of Bceiv, Eventually, tho luniskillings charged through 500 of the enemy, and managed to escape, after inflicting heavy loss on the enemy, 27te Times' correspondent states that the Victorians, seeing tho Boers on a kopje, charged, but were entrapped, and all found dead with their bayonet fixed and bloodstained.
No official confirmation has been received that all are dead. The Times says tho devotion of the Victorians dyin- to a man, fighting to the last, will always elicit admiration, drawing closer the ties of tho Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 42, 21 February 1900, Page 2
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155A DESPERATE FIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 42, 21 February 1900, Page 2
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