WAR MATERRIAL FOR AFRICA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 43, 8 September 1900, Page 4

WAR MATERRIAL FOR AFRICA.

Som« 'idea'- of the cost of ti Transvaal war may be deriti from ihe amount of wir nidiers sont. It appears from an artH iv the .Edinburgh lie view, rhatii millions 'of small-arm aiuuiffl <"iou have been forwarded. Ti following figaresgive (iji? com ponding provision of aililfer ;am munition : ! Cher 103,000 rounds 'for it jISH-poandei' Li.' A. gun. Over 330,000 rounds for It 15-pouii Jer field gun. Over 30^000 for the 5-ine howitzer. Over. 20,000 rounds for the \ 'inch gun. Nearly 21,000 rounds for the'l jgun. ' i Nearly 370,000 rounds for $ pom-pom. v Tbo clothing statistict ar«-j follows :—: — ; TfiAb suits,' much over 2^Al Khaki .suits, abon i 80,(;uG. i Boots (pairß), over 87, 000. - "Woollen drawers, over 4O!),0| Jerseys, over 200,000. Worsted socks, over 850,000. Flannel bolls, ovor 40.000. Flannel »hiits, over 5w0,000 ' j Besides this, some 18,000 teat 420.000 blankets, 300,00 J vnd proof sheets, and other m geueial stores have be"ii f*» A"S regards food, though mw has been collected in the counf? itself, the exports have 1^ gigantic, 80 million ponnds sj weight of 58 items (meac, baojf cheese, pea soup, etc.), bivM been despatched. The difficult of package may be imagined i$ the estimate that 620.000 boi* of different kinds were in'clo^ in 'these eupplieis-. i'nfe ! resi« items were 10 miJli^ft fyriniisi , }n\ii and marmafalfe, W h& { M ; po'an^H 'of biscs^ 4i ms& ' pditwAft of t&bAfec'd* inißW j^d'uiwls of "J>i'eoerS*'M rn^at. % iifoivYge '79,d#6 td^ Were sen I England, and 15i,600 tona M foreign and colonial porte.

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