ASSISTING THE BOERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 4

ASSISTING THE BOERS.

Mr. O. W. Salisbury, who was in Ladysmith when the first "Shell was fired into the town, informs the New Zealand Times that there are a number of English, Scotch, and Irishmen, who held positions in the Republican Civil Service, fighting in the Boers' ranks. Their salaries were not high, but they had opportunities of supplementing them in a more or less irregular manner. These men have thrown in their lot with the Boers, because they recognised that with the overthrow of the Government they would lose lucrative positions. Such Germans and other foreigners as are serving are mostly naturalised.