26.—Victory by General Babington over Delarey at Ventersdorp. Nine Boer guns captured.
APRIL 1901.
6.—General French, in his sweeping operations in the Eastern Transvaal, captured all the enemy’s guns in that district.
8.—Colonel Plumer captured Pietersburg, the terminus of the railway running due north from Pretoria.
10.—Civil administration resumed in the Transvaal.
15.—Smuts’ commando defeated near Klerksdorp. Two guns captured.
18.—Sir A. Milner obtained leave of absence on account of the state of his health.
19.—Generals Plumer and Walter Kitchener co-operated with General French in clearing the Eastern Transvaal and Lydenburg district.
30.—General Blood discovered documents and banknotes of Transvaal Government at Roosenekal, from which place Mr. Schalk Burger fled.
MAY 1901.