Show EARLIEST NEWS OF BATTLE yesterdays STORY OF STORMING OF BOER rOSl riON lotion oct 20 later advises advices from glencie received tonight state that the battle today has been a brilliant success the boers got a reverse which may possibly for a time at any rate check all aggressive action the brit sh artillery practice in the early part of the day baitie ahe seizure of dundee hill by the boers was a surprise for although the pickets had been exchanging shots all night it was not until a shell boonrod over the town into the camp that presence was discovered then the shells came fast the hill was hjal alive with the swarming boers belll the british artillery got to work with magnificent energy and preci alon the batteries from the camp took up positions to the south of the town and utter a quarter of an hours magnificent firing silenced the guns on the hills one could see shells dropping among the boer pieces with remarkable accuracy and doing tremendous execution tor the enemy were in very elarge numbers and in places considerably exposed by this time the held the whole odthe hill behana farm and the dundee kopie kopje right away to the south in which direction the british infantry and cavalry moved at once the fighting raged particularly hot at the valley outside the town direct y the boer guns ceased firing gen mymona ordered the 10 move on the position the infantry charge was magnificent the way the king a royal and the dublin stormed the position was one 0 the most eights ever been the firing of the boers wad not so deadly as must have been c from troops occupying murii an excellent position but tl anil y lost heavily going up hill and iula alio consummately brilliant in which gen symons had l iem to fighting of the kind saed them irum being swept away indeed the hill was almost liaci j sible to the storming party and a ay iy hesitation would have lost tho liy the guns so far as the cone spon dent could sec were all abandoned for the boers had no time lo 10 remove them A stream of fugitives conr e 1 dokei the hillside into the valley where the battle went on with no abatement gen mymona was wounded early in the action and the command then devolved on major yule tho enemy as they fled were followed by the cavalry mounted infantry and artillery the direction taken was to the eastward at the latest reports the cavalry had not returned biome say that tour and some say that five guns were captured the boer artillery firing was weak A biot of shells were used although the enesye position was carried soon after 1 scattering firo went on almost all afternoon the british losses are very but those of the boers are much heavier the final rush was mad with triumphant yell and as the british troops charged to close quarters the enemy turned and fled leaving all their impediments ments and guns behind them in thair thuir precipitate flight while this waa going on one battery of artillery the eighteenth hussary hussars Hus sars and the mounted infantry with a part of leicester regiment got on the flank and as the boers streamed wildly down the hills making tor the main road they found their retreat bad ben cut off but they rallied for a while and there was severe fighting with considerable losa to each side many of the enemy A rough estimate places the ariu h lose at killed or wounded and that of the boera at A newspaper correspondent states that through his glasses during ahe lighting today he noticed how much bocra seemed to toe nonplussed nonplus sed by the tactics of the imperial troops j poc lally of the well drilled ewitt movi ing horsemen I 1 tho enemy arc of olda old a mob i they are without horses and borago i and many of them rely for food upon what they can obtain by looting thir animals ara mostly li a wretched condition it la cooil that befaro battle several bocra had left their commandoes comman does and gone homo to their barms |