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Show MAYOR VAN WYCK ACTIVE. Said to Be Helping Send Men to Enlist En-list With tha Boers. i Chicago. Dec. 20. Peter' Van Schaack, ex-president of the Holland, society of ! Chicago, said today that he knows of forty-eight men who are going from this city to join the Boer forces in the field, and that he expects the 'movement to' grow until there will be an exodus of , Dutch sympathizers from New York and j other ports to South Africa. He said: , I "The pro-Boer movement in this coun- I try has some big men behind it such men as Mayor Van Wyck and Robert Roose- i velt of New York. Of course. Mayor Van I Wyck is compelled to work carefully, be- ! cause of his official position, but he Is j nevertheless active." , o rrr a. I |