8/26 I made a new speech which went, I thought, with considerable power, and then commissioned separate detachments for operations amongst the Zulus and Swazis--outriders for the Orange Free State, and Officers for various branches of Social Work. The leaders of each detachment spoke very well indeed. Promising fellows, all of them. This I was compelled to conclude earlier than I should otherwise have done by the announcement that the electric light would soon give out. |