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Show BRITISH WIN DECISIVE BATTLE Boers Lose 800 in Killed, Wounded and Captured British Loss 250 Boer Artillery Ineffective, London, Oct. 22, A great battle has been fought at Glencoe, resulting in a decided victory for the British. The battle raged for eight hours. The Boers, from their position on a hill overlooking the Britisli camp, began dropping shells from a battery of four jor five guns just at daybreak. Their 'force was estimated at about 4,000. The British, after a desperate fight, repelled the attack, captured the Boer artillery and the almost inaccessible position of the enemy. General Sy-mons, Sy-mons, British commander, was seri- ously, if not fatally wounded, aud the 1 command passed to General Ule. The dispatches leave no doubt that ! the Boers failed in their endeavor to make a combined attack, the presumption presump-tion being' that only one of three Boer I commands was engaged, the young and impetuous Boers forcing the fight without waiting for the other divisions to arrive. The firing of the Boers was not so deadly as must have been expected from troops occupying such an excellent excel-lent position, but the British lost heavily charging up hill, and only the consummately brilliant way in whioh General Symons had trained them to fighting of the kind saved them from being swept away. The hill was almost inaccessible to the storming party and any hesitation would have lost the day. The Boer artillery was ineffective. A rough estimate places the British loss at 2.-u killed and wounded and that of the Boers at S00. A number of Boer prisoners were captured. |