Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1901. THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 April 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1901. THE BOER WAR.

It does not afford very pleasing reading to record, at this stage of the war, the capture of 170 British troops—evidently the result of blundering—yet we suppose it is one of those trifling reverses that the most victorious armies at times meet with.. While regretting the incident, it is pleasing to note side by side the gallant action of eight Australian Bushmen who expelled 40 Boers from Iron Pass, said to be the key to Pietersburg, the extreme northern point of the railway in Transvaal and a distance of 1,500 miles from Capetown. It is in this northern part of Transvaal that Colonel Plumer is operating, his troops being largely composed of Colonials, who, we are from time to time informed, are doing their work well. Plumer’s march is towards Pietersburg. Some days ago wo heard of him at Nylstroom, a station about GO miles south of Pietersburg, so that he has yet that distance to traverse through adiflicult country ere reaching his destination. Pietersburg is a town of considerable size—as South African towns go—and is the present headquarters of the Boer Executive. Here a large quantity of ammunition is manufactured, the factory being a very complete one, and it is from this locality that the Boers have of late drawn their supplies. The town and factory once in British possession, the difficulty in procuring ammunition will become all the more difficult, and aid materially in bringing about a general submission—a condition that cannot now be far distant.