THE DESPATCH OF REINFORCEMENTS.
LONDON, February 11. The 2-j th Regiment were decoyed into an ambush of 20,00 Villus, and though overwhelmed by numbers, fought bravely. Thirty officers and •i7O men fell, and the Zulus are believed to have lost 5,000. It was a regular massacre, The Zulus took
a hundred waggons, a thousand rifles, and tho colours of the 24th Regiment. It has been decided to despatch five large swift steamers with reinforcements. The British Government offer to subsidise a cable to the Cape. Ab a banquet to First Lord of the Admiralty said he deeply deplored the disaster which had bofallen the British troops m Zulu country. He announced that reinforcements, sufficient to terminate the struggle, should start within a week.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1038, 18 February 1879, Page 2
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123THE DESPATCH OF REINFORCEMENTS. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1038, 18 February 1879, Page 2
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