Immediately, Pillotolius appointed Wiggins as the chief officer for the defense of Pretoria, but Wiggins needed to recruit the soldiers himself because Pillotolius did not have many troops responding to the call to resist the East African invasion.
Pillotolius, facing the solitary commander Wiggins, said, "In this critical moment of life and death for our nation, many citizens still don't fully understand the ways of the Germans. In reality, from the moment they invaded the Transvaal Republic, I knew they were not benevolent. The Germans attack the Transvaal for land, yet some citizens naïvely think it's just a change of ruler and choose not to resist, allowing the Germans to invade. In the future, they will undoubtedly regret today's decision intensely."
