The infantry advanced, but could make no headway against the deadly fire which met them.

By short rushes the attack managed to get within 300 yards of the enemy, and there it stuck.

On the right the Munsters carried a detached kopje which was in front of them, but could do little to aid the main attack.

Nothing could have exceeded the tenacity of the Yorkshiremen and the New Zealanders, who were immediately to their left.

Though unable to advance they refused to retire, and indeed they were in a position from which a retirement would have been a serious operation.