Show SOLDIERS WERE FRIGHTENED 0 British Exaggerated the Force and Defenses at MADE Wire SIre Oli Olia a 1 S Si Oil III Oilier ile remu IH by Duly London March ot of time the As Pre That many mistaken were Vore made ot of Doer arid tUlle guile force torce remained In front of It Is 18 clear from the tho followIng account ot of ota ofa a Inspection ot of by the t e oar cor respondent nt after the tho Door had Moo tho slaughter lauGhter place ot of tue tho high Inn landers de deWe We t e looked III valmi aln Cor or the eight foot wire entanglements ot of which wo we had rend so 80 much from the tho pens ot of hy bye and probably rather soldiers after Atler time the mishap Instead of an entanglement there was on only a simple lo wire contInuous but placed at In Interval the line ot of the trenches amid hung hun with strips of oC beet drying Into biltong This was Wll vas probably n a more formidable obstacle titan the poor little fence on which It hung TI en wo we looked for tor the deep dwellings deep enough to engulf man and t we had bad heard Dl Disappoint Disappointment ment again 4 trench or rather n a double row rol of simple trenches deep to Cry er narrow and well protected by head cover of sand sandbags hags bags and n a slight lime trench was 81 nIl simple as the profile and confIned d It complications to a slight alight waviness or of plan and all an occasIonal traverse to minImIze the effect ot of shell bell shellfire tire fire The most noticeable fact lart with reo re regard gartl gard to the Ibe trenches was wal that the back backof ot of the front trench was always left Quite clear so its al not to Interfere with the fire of the second line All alon along the trenches la lay skins likins coats cooking utensils food tood and amid cart cartridges ridges giving us tim Indication wo we had had that the retreat had been anything but an orderly Olle the Iho trenches It was n a step to the gun em emplacements placements Here our good friends the gunners had bad told us We should hould find traveling and dIsappearing carrIages carriage and every other Artifice known to 10 the royal artillery mind Again were we wIth the very simplest plans to minimize time the effect of oC the Iho shell lire fire It a high covering the gun and sharp sloPe or of the ground behind It anti a deep recess cut In time the solid rock rork 01 all protection necessary ary to en enable able Germans to Ue live through h nearly nearl twelve weeks week of and common shell One gun had It Is III true been demolished as n by an ex three weeks ago end corroborated by Jf the fragments ol of twisted Iron and woodwork littering the emplacements meats ments but the others protected by their simple elm pIe sand bags and tI the trouble troublesome troublesome some perspectIve or of time the Iron ironstone lone kopjes had maintained a fairly regular and accurate lire for tor two to months of If our Winter At MOI Madder dr rI er r A |