The Archive · 1902

A BRITISH-BOER VOLUNTEER REGIMENT

London vid Bombay, 1st November, A number of ex-Boer commandants and several British officers at Johannesburg have decided to offer their services to the British Government in Somaliland, with a thousand picked men, half Boer, half British.—Reuter.

8rd November.

General Viljoen has written to Lo-d Roberts offering his services inj Somaliland if the contingent of Boers is accepted.—Reuter.

London, 8rd November.

The news that General Viljoen has offered himself for service with the British force in Somatiland is confirmed.—Special service.

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