The Beginning of the War.
It will be of interest to those who have condemned Britannia as forcing the Boers to go to war, to learn again from Adolph De Wet, nephew of General De Wet, and himself a Boer soldier, that for years the Boers had been preparing for the war; that for weeks before the outbreak by Kruger, the Boers knew what was coming, and knew that “both the government and private individuals had for many months been accumulating munitions of war. To tell the truth, the Boers had supplies stored up for twice the number of their available fighting men, and, what is more, they doubtless have at present more than enough ammunition sacked to last them another year.” So says Mr. Truman L. Elton after an interview with young De Wet. The latter was a British prisoner at the Bermudas, but escaped to this country. Those who are informed know that Britain had no desire to go to war, but that the war was forced upon her. In some way God will bring good out of it to His own.