Show ALL READY Cannon Fanner lived five yoars In Pretoria Ie < Is now in England and the London Chronicle publishes an In terview with him Tic says the Boers were arming long before the Jameson raid and Oom Paul welcomed that as an excuse to continue arming moro openly For more than a year before that raid arms and ammunition were being poured Into Pretoria Directly afterward the forts around Pretoria were started and within two years af terwhrd the large forts around the cap Ital Were erected In 1S9S a great new fort was built at Bloemfonluin which showed an understanding that the Freo State was preparing for trouble A t regular Intervals guns and arms arrived arri-ved in Pretoria quite opeitly and trials of new guns were continually being made One of the last remarks Joubert made before leaving for the front way Chamberlain will be surprised at this as he thought we were merely blulllng Mr Farmer tells us that on the evenIng even-ing of his departure Chief Justice Gre gorvogky said lo him Js it really necessary for you to go as the war will be over In a fortnight We shall first take Kimberlcy and Matching and give the British such a beating in Natal that they will sue for peace The Boer I ofllclals also told Mr Farmer that they I would put between OOOO and it0uoo men In the field He says too that Jm mense storehouses have been erected and filledvlthilour and meal anti that when he left trainloads of Jlour large ly n from Y Australia were arriving from iDelngoa bay |