El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-14
On The Success OfThe Beers
At Rensberg
Would
AMUSE 4 Man OR STRAW
All Messages From Modder
River Stopped, So The
Experts Can Have a
Day Of 1t

LONDON, Feb. 1.-the retirement
of the British from their advanced
positions about Rensberg owing to the
aggressiveness of the Beers is the
most engrossing topic of war news to-
day and has caused considerable discus.
sion.
Some profess to see in the success OF
the Beers at Rensberg a menace to
Roberts's line of communication be
tween Modder River and Deasr, his
base of supplies. Military experts,
. however, believe that the retirement
of the British at Rensberg is a part of
Roberts's scheme to throw his entire
weight against the Beers at Modder
River, on the theory that the enemy is
not able to successfully assume the Of
fensive at more than one place.
It is certain from the press accounts
of the fighting about Rensberg during
the last few days that French is no
longer in that vicinity and it is pre-
sumed he has either Joined Roberts's
column at Modder River or is operat-
ing with General Kelly-Kenny's in
fsnsry along the railroad line from
,Nasupoort to Deaar.
THE QUEEN GOING ABROAD
LONDON, Feb. 14.-Reports that
have been current for some time past
to the effect that Queen Victoria, in
view of her anxious desire to be close
to London where she could receive the
earliest news from South Africa, will
postpone her intended visit to the con-
tinent, we're semi-officially denied today
and the Information was added that
her majesty will leave Windsor at an
early date, probably the latter part of
next week. The attendants of the
court at Windsor Castle are now engag-
ed in making final arrang ements for
the trip. AS usual the queen will take
q large amount of special furniture and
personal baggage with her.
The queen will avoid passing through
France, going instead by the route of
Ostende, through the St. Gothard
tunnel. Orders have already been
given for the running of special tele-
graph wire to her majesty's apart
ments in the hotel Angst 81 Bordighe-
ri. The queen is to be accompanied by
Princess Beatrice and Princess Victo-
ria of Schleswig- -Holstein, while Prin-
cess Christian will join her majesty
later on after a visit to the Empress
Frederick a. Lorici.
PICTURE FOR THE QUEENS EYE.
LONDON, Feb. IA sapper of the
Royal Engineers, in a letter to his re- |
latives in England, describes the hor- !;
rors of the scene after the battle of |
Magersfontein. He says:
Twas in the Boer trenches two days
after the battle, but was blindfolded. |
1t was this way. l think it is the
worst sight anyone can see, that of a
battlefield two or three days after the ,
battle. The dead lie all around with |
the sun shining on their faces and
bodies; it makes the place unbearsble.
1t turns them as black as charcoal and
the stencil b is chronic. What with all |
the dead aroun nd you and the wounded
moaning for water, it is enough to turn
the heart of the strongest man. There
were twenty of our company told off to
do the distssteful work of burying the
dead, and 1 happened to be one of
buSm. IL 10 d JOo shdb uOPS WILL
never fall to my lot again. 1t was
horrible sight to see some of the poor
fellows. Some had their heads blown
off, others their arms missing. 1t was
too horrible to describe. It was while
bringing In the dead that they blind
folded US, when we were led about the
trenches 80 that we could bring them
in.
BOER ADVISERS.
LONDON, Feb. 14.-In view of the
idea that the Beers are
largely helped by foreign military {
advisers, it is worth while quoting an !
account given by a former Pretoria
merchant who has just arrived from
Delagoa Bay. He says that the Boers c