HOW KRUGER PREPARED FOR WAR.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9618, 21 April 1900, Page 2

HOW KRUGER PREPARED FOR WAR.

The New York Evening Post has interviewed practically all the principal exporters of foodstuffs in the city. AS a result it transpires that a large proportion of the shipments of such material to South Africa is now in storehouses in the Transvaal.

President Kruger evidently anticipated the possibility of having his supplies cut off as fair 1 back as Maroh last, for after that month, the orders for flour, samp^ and biltong were doubled. In 1899 at least 300,000 sacks of flour were shipped viai Delagoa Bay, while 400,000 sacks were sent to other 1 ports in South Africa, much of which ia known to have gone to the Transvaal. Such amounts have never before been equalled. It is acknowledged that the Boers continue to send in large orders. Referring to the Boer armaments, Mr. Easton, the war correspondent, who has just arrived at Naples, said (■hat the Government of Pretoria before beginning th© w .glWriUAfft in

Europe what quantity of oatridges had been allotted to the German army in the war of 1870-71,* and ordered^ double quantity.