Show GUNBOATS FOR SOUTH AFRICA j 1 1 i t Jp Ja I Q 1 tili I l I I r The accompanying illustration shows the new type of at shallow draft gun gunboats gunboats boats recently adopted by rho he British war office for lor use In South Africa Two such boats have havo Just been built and shipped to the Cape where they will nt at once be put Into service against the tho Doers Boers These boats are Into a number of at floatable sections arranged In such a way that the sec lions bons can be quicklY united while afloat thus enabling the boats to be put to I gether both casU easily and expeditiously expeditious Besides this thle they aro capable ot of very easy transport their floating capabilities Craft Cratt ot of this charac character ter have been well veil tested b by the In J Egypt during their different ad advances vances anres up the Nile and have proved prayed eminent eminently satisfactory when armed with quick firing guns for tor steaming about In shallow water and routing out an ambushed hell enemy |