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BRILLIANT SORTIE FROM ! LADYSMITH.

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BRILLIANT SORTIE FROM LADYSMITH. BOER GUNS DESTROYED. The most brilliant piece of work that has been done during the siege was accomplished at an early hour on Friday morning. A column composed of Light Horse and Natal Volunteers and supported by British regular cavalry went on Thursday night under the command of General Sir Archibald Hunter. Before dawn broke they attacked the Gun Hill near Lombard's Kop, carried the position, and blew np three guns, including a 6in. Creusot piece and a howitzer, and captured a Maxim-Norfendelt quick. firOur gallant little force left the town before ten o'clock on Thursday night and took up a position near the foot of Lombard's Kop. About two o'clock the advance began. The troops got past the picket in the darkness, and were charging several hundred yards up the hill when the picket awoke. A sentry hailed Wie gaat daar P" (Who goes there ?), and getting no reply he fired is rifle, then ran off 'shouting, Willem, Hans, Marteens, fly! The Rooineks are upon you!" The Boers round the guns fired several volleys at the advancing troops, and then fled dismayed down the opposite side of the hill. Our men seized the guns without opposition. Our engineers and men of No 10 Mountain Battery blew up the heavy guns with gun cotton and carried off the Maxim-Nor. denfelt. The Brers had built a splendid emplacement on the top of the hill, but they bolted before our men like rabbits, leaving everything, even their private letters, behind them. One of these epistles said they bad bombarded Ladysmith for a month ani nine days, but the Rooineks were going about unconcernedly, and if the town was to be taken the Boers must do it at a terrible loss of life. Our troops brought away the breech-block of Long Tom," together with the rammer, sponges, sights, friction tubes, and other fittings of the weapons. All the guns on the hill were quite destroyed, and are now utterly useless for offensive or de- fensive purposes. The whole operation, counting from the moment the order to charge was given, was carried out in three quarters of an hour, with the loss on our side of seven men wounded- This magniiceiit piece of work has evidently filled the Boers with dismay, as their guns on Mount Bulwan have practically been silent, and the success of the attack cannot fail to have an immense effect upon the moral of the Beers. At daybreak a smart skirmish took place between the 19th Hussars and the 5th Lancers and the enemy to the north-west of Ladysmith near Pep- worth Hill. Our cavalry had been covering the attack on the guns during the night. The Boers thought that all our troops were engaged at Lombard's Kop and tried to get near the town, but the movement was checked in capital style by the cavalry and our our infantry on Long Hill. The fighting was over at about six o'clock.

GENERAL GATACRE IN AMBUSH.

fGENERAL GATACRE'S EXPLANA,=TION…

ANOTHER BOER POSITION TAKEN.

HOW TRAITORS ARE MADE.

BOERS SMELLED A RAT.

. IN DARKEST CORRIS (AND NO…

o CRAIG FACH (MACHYNLLETH)…

THE WAR.

FIGHT BEYOND THE MODDER.

IMPENDING CAPE CABINET CRISIS.

A NIGHT OUT

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