Show IWAR SP1R1TINFLAED Boers Believe Clash With England Is Inevitable KRUGER WELL PREPARED I STOCKS TH PRESIDENCY I ANTICIPATION OF SIEGE A the Fighting Men Arc Well Armed Excepting Those I Johannesburg Jo-hannesburg and the For Are Amply ViGtualeduick Firing Gus I Readiness For Use 4 London Aug 31Te Pretoria correspondent cor-respondent of the mlng PoSt flays The Boer officials after reading the cabled reports of Mr Chamberlains Birmingham speech consider that war Is inevitable The speech has undoubtedly undoubt-edly inflamed the war spiit here The Boer are now all armed except those In Johannesburg Their commissariat Is fairly good All the forts are amply vlttualed The Johannesburg fort has Te been strengthened with several quick fire runs The ammunition which Mr Schreiner allowed to pass through Cape Colony came direct to Pretoria I was never intended for the Orange Free State PresIdent Kruger does not hesitate to express the view that war Is almost inevItable He has stocked the presidency presi-dency with ample supplies of provIsions to secure his own person from privation priva-tion and he Is often heard repeating the elghtthird praim The Matabele are showIng signs of unrest The Boers are energetically engaged In poisoning the minds of the natives against the British and they have approached the Zulu chief Dlnl zulu who appears undecided which cause to espouse But the Zulus are prepared for the expected fighting and It must be remembered that Dlnizulu was deported to St Helena with several other chiefs and kept a prisoner thereby there-by the British for several years |