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Show LOOKING FOR A ROW. JOHANNESBURG PREPARING FOR THE CONFLICT. All the Outgoing Trains are Crowded With People Leaving the City, and the Tott Council Has I'rovlded Three Mouths Supply of F'ood for the Men and Animals. Johannesburg, Sept. 3. The town is preparing for the eventualities of war. The inmates of the Children's home are g-oing to Natal. The town council is providing a three mouths' supply of food for the men and animals. All the outgoing- trains are crowded and most of the prominent men have already left Johannesburg. A Pretoria dispatch sa3-s Ilerr Fischer was present at the session of thevolks-raad thevolks-raad last evening, a circumstance that caused a great deal of curiosity. Large crowds gathered around the building, anxious to learn the latest intelligence. President Kruger remained with the executive until a late hour discussing the situation. An influential section of the Afrikanders Afri-kanders has wired Ilerr lloffmeyer, leader of the Afrikander party in Cape Colony, to come to Pretoria immediately. immedi-ately. The Pretoria correspondent of the London Morning Post telagraphs as follows: "President Kruger told a prominent Boer yesterday that war is practically certain. Every Boer is now armed with a Mauser and has a hundred hun-dred rounds for practice. 1 am convinced con-vinced that the reports of the Boers not being prepared are only a pretense, and they will strike a blow when it is 1 least expected. " |
