CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 84, 11 April 1901, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.]

r-»- (rp-f. 0 IN THE TRANSVAAL. OCCUPATION OF PIETERSBURG BY THE BRITISH. CAPTURE OF STORES AND ROLLING STOCK. - [press association.] LONDON, 10th April. The Boers evacuated Pietersburg, at the terminus of the railway, 150 • miles north-east of Pretoria, on the night before Major-General Plunder's arrival, exploding, two trucks full of ammunition. General Plumer captured two engines and 39 truck^. • ... Lieutenant . Walker and one private were .killed, and Lieutenant Sale severely wounded. All belonged to the Australian Bushmen. The British also captured at Pietersburg 60 prisoners «md a 7-pounder gun, and destroyed 210,'ppO . roundjj of small arms: ammunition, v thousand founds of big gun .ammunition, and a considerable quantity of powder and dynajnite. Eight Australian Bushmen expelled 40 burghers from the -Iron Pass, tuus- capturingi the key to Pietersburg. Two BushI men were wounded. Major-General Plunier -,Ims commended, the little party for gallantry. . . ..,.),.. MEETING OF BOER LIt^DERS. GENERAL BURGER RETREATING TO THE MOUNTAINS. (Received April 11, 9.7 a.m.)LONDON, 10th April. After staying on a farm near Heilbron, in the north' of Orange River Colony, with Mr. Steyn and General ' De Wet, General Botha returned to the Transvaal. . , '. General Schalk Burger has removed his headquarters from Leydsdorp, twenty miles east of Pietersburg, to an inaccessiblo part of the Zoutpansberg Mountains.