It is only just, as the Govern i It is
only just, as the Govern i Government is blamed for all failures, to admit that in South Africa t has attained a complete military success. The power of the Zulu organisation has been completely broken up, the national habit of persistence having, as usual, compensated for the national blundering, un- readiness and tendency to select aristocratic officers. It is also just to point out that Sir Garnet Wolseley judged the situation correctly, that Cetewa.yo's power was broken when he thought i it was, and that he was justified n his apparently precipitate restoration of the regiments. The officers wrong were Sir Bartle Frere, who plunged into the war without reckoning resources ; and Lord Chelmsford, who, after collecting 23,000 men, as soon as supersession had spurred him into energy, ended the war with less than 5,000 Europeans actually on the ground.
