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Show Want to Join Boers New York, Dec. 20. The office of the Orange Free State consulate here are visited every day by a large number of men who want to go to the Transvaal and join the Boers. Charles D. Pierce, the consul of the Free State, refers them to Dr. Hendrick Muller. the Orange Free State minister at The Hague.. Before starting for Holland, however, many of them visited George W. Vansicler at his office in Broadway. Most of the men who apply to Mr. Pierce, to judge by appearances, are rough men with little or no money, belonging be-longing to the laboring class. But as there are not a few who are educated and have had some military experience, Mr. Pierce said frankly that he was referring these men to Dr. Muller, who, he added, saw that they arrived in the Transvaal. When asked how it was possible to get the men into the Transvaal Trans-vaal at the present time, he said that they were taken into the country by way of Delagoa bay. Must Go In Disgrace. Some of he men who came to see Mr. Pierce today asked whether it would be necessary for them to go in disguise, i Mr. Pierce replied that it would not. Mr. Fierce was asked who paid the expenses ex-penses of the men to The Hague. - "They paid their own expenses," he said. "Somebody in the city, though. 5s furnishing them with money to get to the Transvaal. I don't know who it is. I do not-know whether it is a society- or an individual." ."How many men have been here so far?" Mr. Pierce was asked. "I can't say," he replied. "Hundreds "Hun-dreds of them. Dozens of them come in here every day. A good many of them are Boers. Some are Hollanders, and Scandinavians. There have been a great many Germans here who have served as officers in the German army. I receive a great many letters also from people who want to go to the war, a great many from surgeons who offer their services and I get letters every day from people who, bave some wonderful won-derful invention by which they eay they can blow up the whole British navy." |