MEN FOR CONGO
Mercenary Recruits (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY, Aug. 26. A former British Army officer, Mr John Wicks, who fought as a mercenary with Katangese troops in 1961, said in Salisbury yesterday he was recruiting white mercenaries in Southern Rhodesia for the Congolese Government. Mr Wicks said he already had 55 recruits and more were seeking interviews with him. Some had already been flown to the Congo and more would be flown there by charter aircraft on Thursday. Mr Wicks, who works for a car sales firm in Salisbury, said he “worked under orders” from the Congo. He had been given no quota for recruits, but when they had a reasonable number, he would presumably be told to stop. The recruits, he said; would join the Congolese National Army as privates and would be paid £l2O a month—twothirds of which would be banked for them in Southern Rhodesia. They included many South Africans, he added, some of whom had said “they were doing it for the change, not for the money.” The recruits are being interviewed by Mr Wicks in a little office at Hatfield, a suburb of Salisbury.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 17
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188MEN FOR CONGO Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 17
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