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Show liOEHS' AMMUNITION. Enough Powder and Ball to Last for a Ten Years1 War. Hade lu German and French P"n-tcirlea P"n-tcirlea and Trnnaported with h arenteet nf Cnre and Sterner, Most of the ammunition used by the Ilocrs is of Gerinuu or French manufacture. manu-facture. A comparatively very smull ijuantlty wob mode In England, and nn , eipinlly small jiroportion was mnnuftic- tured at the Trnnsinal government uorks, nenr Pretoria. A vast amount of mystery and te- cree Kiirrotiin?fd Hie go eminent pow-,. pow-,. der factory, s H wnt, called, and no one ' itnsnllnwid tovtml It or own approach " Mithin half n inllu of the inclosed build' lugs uithout n very extra special permit. per-mit. The faelory 'as entirely run by Germans, Ger-mans, and, curiously enutigh, the head thereof whb Mr. Nruger, who viib ill- ojg careful to nttcrt that he wns no relation whatsoever to the president. The vtorks were near Daspoort, four i. mileg outside of Pretoria, nnd lu the 1- immediate vicinity of the cement works, )e where so-colled Transvaal Portland ce- ment was very badly made. The povv- der factory ih niojt jealously guarded from Intruders, and even the Italians :B from the dynnmite faelory, not many miles away, know nothing of Its Intel In-tel mil economy. It Ik thought questionable ques-tionable by many whether nnj actual niMiufnctiirc taken place- there, or whether, n lu the cane of iljnnmitc works ("MaaUchtipl voor Ontplolf-barcn Ontplolf-barcn KtolTcn" in the Tool), the Imported Im-ported Ingredients are just put up In cartridges on the spo., so ns to appear to carry out the requirements of the exclusive concession. The ammunition is taken nvvuy at dend of night on mulo vvngoiib to one or other of the forU around Pretoria, and a jwrlion Is often sent over to the Johannesburg fort, but not by rail, its the jolting might be dnngeroub In tho ens of the very corelebsly put together explosive. An escort of nrtlllery rides with thu wagons and rcportb the due delivery of the ammunition. In the case of foreign-Imported ammunition am-munition lee-metford, muuser nnd heavy gun shells it comes by Germnn, French or Dutch steamer to Delagoa ' by rind U there unshipped., stored for ftsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBLftBtftsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsl |