Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-21

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After eight hours of continuous heavy
lighting, Talana Hill was carried by the
Dublin FuSilliers and the Kings Rifles.
Under cover Of a well-served artillery
fire by the Thirteenth and SiXty-ninth
batteries.
The Beers. who threatened the Brit
ish rear. have retired. The fight was
almost an exact counterpart of that at
Alajuba Hill. except that the positions
of the Bocr and British forces were re-
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Gen. Symonds was severely, but not
dangerously wounded.
HEAVY BLOW TO BOERs.
GLENCOE CAMP. Oct 2O.-4Nfter-
noon.-Ihe battle today has been {,
brilliant success. The Beers got a re-
verse, which may possibly. 70 a time
at any rate. check all aggressive ac-
ton. i. M
The British artillery practice in the
early part Of the day decided the bat
tie. The seizure of Dundee Hill by the
Beers was surprise for, although the
pickets had been exchanging shots all
night. it was not until Il Shell doomed
over in TO the camp. that their presence
was discovered. Then the shells came
fast. The hill was positively alive
With the swarmins Beers. Then the
British artillery got to work with mag
nliIcent energy and precision. The bat
te"ics took up positions south Of the
town. and after a quarter hours mag
niticent firing, slenced the guns on the
hill.
TREMENDOUS EXECUTION.
The correspondent could see Shells
dropping among the Boer pieces With
remarkable accuracy and doing ire
mendous execution. FOR the enemy ere
present in large numbers and in places
considerably exposed
Fy this time the enemy hs;d he
whole Of the hill behind Smiths farm.
and the Dundee Nupjc. right away to
the south. in which ,:ire:;:on The Brit
iSh infantry and cavalry moved Il,
once.
The firing ragged particularly lot a.
the valley outside the town. Directly
the Boer guns ceased firing and Gen
tral Symons ordered the infantry to
charge. The charge was magnificent
The StorminS OF the position 10y the
Kings Royal Rifles and Dublin Flu
Siiicrs WAS one Of the most magniti-
cent sights ever witnessed. The fir
ing % the Beers was not so deadly as
might have been expected from troops
occupying such an excellent position.
but the infantry los, heavily going up
the hill, and only the tonSuminately
hriilian, way in Which General Sy-
mons had trained them To lighting OF
this kind saved them from being swept
away.
ALMOST INACCESSIBLE. All.
Indeed, the hill was almost inacces-
sihc to the storming party, and any
hesitation would have lost the cay The
rnrmy's guns. so far as the correspon.
dent could see. were all abandoned. for
The Beers had no time 10 remove them
y stream Of fugitives poured down the
hillside into the valley, where the bat
lie went on with no abatement.
General Symons was wounded early
IN the action, and the command then
urvolvcd upon Major Yule. 1t is feared
General Symons is fatally hurt.
The enemy as they fled We're followed
by the cavalry. mounted infantry and
artillery. The direction taken was to
the eastward. At the latest reports the
cavalry had not returned.
Some say that four and some say five
guns We're captured. The ,Eoer artil-
lcry firing was weak. A lot Of plugged
shells We're used.
Although the enemy's position was
carried soon after / O'Clock, scattered
firing went on almost all the afternoon
oolFt lLl'o ! Ftf1tAN LILY.
The British losses are very severe
but those of the Beers are much heav-
Ter.
The final rush was made with a tri-
1imphant yell ana as the British troops
charged to close quarters. the enemy
turned and fled, leaving all their i'm
pcdiments and guns behind them
While this was going on, one battery
Of artillery, the Eighteenth Hussars
and the mounted infantry, with part
of the Leicester regiment got on the
enemy's flank and as the Beers streams
cd wildly down the hills making for the
main road, they found their retreat had
been cut off, but they rallied for a
while and there was severe firing. with
considerable loss to each side. Many Of
the enemy surrendered
500 BOlERS KILLED.
"a rough estimate places the British
loss at $50 killed or wounded. and that
OF the Beers at 500.
a newspaper correspondent states
that through his glasses during the
fighting today he noticed how much he
Beers seemed to be non-plussed by the
tactics of the imperial troops, especially
OF the well drilled, swift moving horse
men. The enemy are still, as Of old, q
mob. They are without horses and
forage and many Of them rely for food
or what they can obtain by looting.
Their animals are mostly in a wretched
condition.
1t is understood that before today's
battle several Beers had left their com
mandos and gone home to their farms;