The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-30

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four Dr,usot guns OF th, he,,.t ylii-
rre. four moro OF fifteen mlo- range
and thirty of the hesi type 0f Calling
guns There are. besides. Guy Heht
Calling guns in thc city which can be-
easily sent 20 any threatened point
Three immense warehouses. well oli OF
an enemy's range are nll-d with am-
munitlon. also am arsenal with spare
repeating rifles Two reiriggrl'ors
with a capacity Of 1000 oxen each are
part OF the resources OF the commits
sarlat The cost OF AN this may be
judged boy the military budget OF one
year. Cthe year preceding the outbreak
of the war; which foots mp S9.i29 $50
OF this sum but S2G2,3l went for War
Office salaries.
Johannesburg is cncircled 10y forth
Gcations so built as either to defend
the city or destroy IT, The outside
country can be raked on the one hand;
the city streets and the railroad on
the other Residents have reason to
believe that the place has been mined.
Should an enemy assal he could be
kept off indefinitely; should the popu-
laton rise it and its habitations could
be blown into the air.
The difficult mountain approaches to
the Transvdal are fortified nearly If
not quite as well-so say other author
tiles than Hillegas-as the FrancO-Ger-
man border Hillegas himself says
that they are fortified with vast guam
titles of French and German ordnance
and equipped with garrisons of men
born or trained in Europe. The APP
proaches to Laing's Mex, near the Ma
tai border, which have several times
been the battle ground of the English
and Boer forces, have been prepared
to resist an invading army from Ma
tai Much attention'-says this pro-
rhetic author-"has been directed to
the preparations in that part of the re-
public because the British command
ers will find it easier to transfer forces
from the port of Durham. which is 800
miles from the Transvaal border, while
Cape Town is almost thousand miles
distant"
The author discusses the armament
of the Free State, the probability OF
sympathetic Dutch uprisings in Cape
Colony, and the habit Of the powerful
native tribes of taking the side of a
successful white combatant. and pro-
ceeds to say:
Military men are accustomed to sheer
at the lack of generalship of the Boer
forces, but in only one of the battles
in which they have engaged the Brit
ish forces have the trained military
men and leaders been able to cope with
them. In the battle of Boompaats,
fought in 1913, the English officers can
claim their only victory over the
Beers, who were armed with flintlocks,
while the British forces had heavy ar
tillery In almost all the encounters
that have taken place the Boer forces
We're not so large as those of the enc
my, yet the records show that many
more casualties were inflicted than re-
ceived by them. In the chief engage
ments the appended statistics show
that the Beers had only small per-
centage of the men in the casualty list.
while the British losses We're much
greater: