TROOPS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
PAPERS FOR AND AGAINST THE PROPOSAL. (TIMES AND STDNET SUN IBItTICER.) (Received June 26, 8 &.m.) LONDON, 25th June. It has been suggested that the South African Union should send a contingent to Europe. The Dutch weekly Ons Land declares that the debt incurred over the rest of the South African campaign prohibits this. The Cape Argus insists on every possible device of taxation and voluntary effort to raise the necessary funds. PRETORIA, 25th June. Tiie Government is communicating with the Imperial Government in reference to a South African contingent for Europe. Many men disbanded from the forces in German South- West Africa have already proceeded to England, but the Government does not encourage this exodus. [It was reported from London on 2nd June :— " South African reports show that the soldiers everywhere are eager for foreign service, and are pressing the Government to despatch them to Europe."' Viscount Buxton, the GoyernorGeneral, speaking at Capetown, said that a definite statement regarding a South African contingent for Europe would be premature, for though we occupy the capital and the greater part of German South- West Africa, a German army has not yet been engaged.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 7
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