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It was hoped now, after all these precautions, that the last had
been seen of the gentleman with the tinted glasses, but on June
21st he was back in his old haunts once more. Honing Spruit
Station, about midway between Kroonstad and Roodeval, was the scene
of his new raid. On that date his men appeared suddenly as a train
waited in the station, and ripped up the rails on either side of
it. There were no guns at this point, and the only available troops
were three hundred of the prisoners from Pretoria, armed with
Martini-Henry rifles and obsolete ammunition. A good man was in
command, however--the same Colonel Bullock of the Devons who had
distinguished himself at Colenso--and every tattered, half-starved
wastrel was nerved by a recollection of the humiliations which he
had already endured. For seven hours they lay helpless under the
shell-fire, but their constancy was rewarded by the arrival of
Colonel Brookfield with 300 Yeomanry and four guns of the 17th
R.F.A., followed in the evening by a larger force from the south.


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