WAR IN THE TRANSVAAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11068, 21 October 1899, Page 2

WAR IN THE TRANSVAAL.

A BATTLE RAGING AT GLENCOE. 9,000 BOERS ENGAGED AGAINST 4,000 BRITISH, General Symons Wounded, WAR CORRESPONDENTS CAPTURED. REINFORCEMENTS CUT OFF. THE VOLUNTEERS FIGHT GALLANTLY.

Pr**i A^ofilailon—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 20. The Boers are attacking Glencoe in great force, and a general engagement is raging. Reports received by the War Office state that General Symons, commanding at Glencoe, has been wounded. It is also rumored that the British have captured the Boer position, with five guns. Later reports state that 9,000 Boers attacked Glencoe at daybreak, shelling the town from the surrounding hills. Four thousand British defended the town. The Boers captured a goods train (on which were several war correspondents) at Elandslaagte, thus preventing reinforcements from reaching Glencoe. The Natal Carbineers gallantly engaged 2,000 of the enemy at Besters. Sixteen of the British were and Lieutenant Gallwey, a son of Sir Michael Henry Gallwey, the Chief Justice of Natal, is amongst the missing. i BRITISH SEIZURE OF A STEAMER. DURBAN, October 20. The authorities here have seized the steamer Rollo, with a cargo of Western Australian sleepers, consigned to the Free | State. RUSSIA AND THE TRANSVAAL. CAPE TOWN, October 20. Colonel Stakhovitch, a Russian officer, accompanies Major-general Hunter, chief \ of the British staff, to the front. No Russian military representative w ; ,11 be sent to the Transvaal, as the indepc jndence of the Republic is not recognised N AUSTRALIA'S SHARE OF BRITISH ORDERS. LONDON, Octo',oer 20. '! Mr Joseph Powell Williams. Financial Secretary to the War Office, states that by far the largest orders for me At and forage for South Africa havo ber Jft p j ft eed with Australian houses. i

COLONIAL PRODUCE SHIPMENTS.

MELBOURNE, October 21. The" steamer Ho unslow has sailed for Natal with 13,50 a "bags of New Zealand and Tasmanian a i arge consignment of pressed hay, and 2,000 live sheep. The Fazilka Ims sailed for India with a large consignment of wheat and fodder. She also takes 350 hordes.

THE NEW SOTJTtt WALES LANCERS,

"SYDNEY, October 21. It has been decided not to send further men to the Oj,p e \ n order to make up the full strength i 0 f tne Lancers contingent.