It was officially announced on Wednesday that the Govern- ment
had decided to accept the services of a contingent of two hundred and forty Boers, commanded by General Viljoen, to take part in the Somaliland Campaign. • We hail this announcement with the greatest possible pleasure and satis- faction, and we trust that the Boers will get an early oppor- tunity to show their loyalty to the Empire in which they are now fellow-citizens with their late foes. The action of the Government in at first refusing the offer of the Boers was so astoundingly short-sighted as to seem incredible. Their revised decision is worthy of the best traditions of the Empire.—Chatham set the clansmen who had been subdued after the '45 the congenial task of fighting the battles of the Empire in America and lndia.—The effect on the Continent of the spectacle of our late foes fighting side by side with the
Imperial forces in East Africa cannot but be most useful. How many bonci-fide volunteers could the Germans get from Alsace-Lorraine even after thirty years of inclusion in their Empire ?
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