The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-11
OF BUTLER
IA the Absence Of News Are Making En-
Nishmen Irritable and Impatient.
he MINISTRY is LOSING IT'S SUPPORT
~ Morning Post Also Demands "a
RECONSIDERATION Of the Cabinet.
ucthucn Is TO lie Recalled.

xew York, January 10.--A dispatch to
y Tribune from London says. Lord
,,,buep has been recalled to England.
Ma statement is made on the highest au-
s,-itv 1t is reported that he was la
..i,y under great mental excitement at
4 the battle of Modder River and that
!. war office has considered 1t necessary
sisplace him, as he is evidently not in
ondition to command troops. Two mem
~ Of his family are said to be weak
pded. Lord Wauchope's last words,
noted in yesterdays dispatches, have
rcated most painful impression.
pIsappointmentand reverses are endured
the Enghshmen with fortitude and
rim stoicism; but the utter lack of trust
orthv news from General Buffers army
horne with increasing signs of i'm
{stlence and irritability. The summons
the ambulance corps to the front last
keek after every available battalion and
Sayary troop had been called into Natal
a. accepted as the signal for impending
xat,Ie but when Ladysmith was hard
rsssed on Saturday the relieving army
Fac Gully capable of making harmless
Reconnaissance worthy OF tranquil sum
hers DAY maDeuver at Aldershot. Gem
raj Buffers immediate advance was re-
arded as the inevitable sequel TO the des-
Berate Boer assault upon Ladysmith
thich had been well nigh successful But
Xhree days have passed in silence, il not
II act on Probably no recent experience
las been more trying TO the English tenn
~ ~ e nil n ell ~,
Natal when every man has felt in his
cart that there was no time to losc and
Maj an army Of over %. 600 British sol
ers ought 10 be moving with untiring
mercy and irresistible force across the
fugcis for the delversnce of Whites he
8oic garrison
The Morning Post has joined the Daily
Mail in attacking the ministry and de-
handing the reconstruction of the cabinet
kut this campaign has not made any move
Hhe party whips smile ineredulously when
3ver IL Is suggested that the troops are in
Hanger The Standard which has neither
ot nor cold FITS, represents the cQnserva .
i've PARTY more accurately than any other
English Journal and il has not yet lost
&s presence of mind,
What is evident to all observers is that
|hs loss of Lsdysmith without second
3ttempt al relieving the army across the
fugela would be more discreditahle than
i fresh reverse Of Ruller's forces. and
Bat public confidence in the government
3oud be fatally impaired John Bull is,
Ihdsed in bad temper and in no mood
/fr explanations from any source. Whist
s wants is news from the front, and un-
er the censorship he gets little or moth
tg, The military writer's for the press
ave LOST their public and the veterans
I the clubs talk to blank walls when
bsy explain that Butler probably set in
potion Warren TO cross the river east Of
Rolenso which movement depends for
llccess upon secrecy, and that 1T Will
rohatly end in the capture of large
prtieu of the Boer force. Equally in
Rderent to details are the groups of club
pen gathering about the croaksrs. who
ssert that Butler is waiting TO discover
y hook or crook where the enemy's guns
re concealed or to strsighten out its
buls service or to get Lord Roberts opin
Pr before striking another blow.