Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-14
PHILIPPINE REBELLION.
4 SeriOls Engagement in Which the
Spanish We're Defeated.
The InuurGenis Resist an Attack by
General Rios. Supported by
Gunbnais and Cruisers,

new YORK, Jan. lA.--The Herald
Mrs. Hodson, the wife OF the English
manager OF the docks near Cavite, the
center OF the rebellion in the Philip
pines. 1t is dated in the beginning
Of the month and shows that the Mes.
iizos and other native Philippine en-.
ployes OF the docks rose against their
employers and threatened murder
even against English people who were
hitherto regarded cafe, 40 the native
hostility was believed to be solely di-
reoted against the spanish. Mr.. and
in Manila, Honkong and Shanghai
from their hi ding place inside large
uisused boiler where they took reiug .
from rifle shots. Faithful natives oAr-
riea their letiers safely. What aleps
were taken by the British STEAMBOATS,
at Manila to secure their rescue ia not
yet known, but it Is clear that the
immunity other foreigners than Span
iph hitherto enjoyed is at an end.
According W tho letter rebels in Ca.
vite are suii maoters Of the situation.
Spanish troops are quito unable to
disiOdge them from their positions
which are strongly fortified. They
are equipped with u number OF Hotch-
kiss guns, but very few OF heavy
pattern.
On Nov. Slh Spanieh troops numb az
Ing between three and 1our thousand
under the command OF Gen. Rios,
made Combined attack on the reGei
entrenchment ut Novelette, anu Viemu.
Blk gunboEts anu two crnissrs cooper
etrt in the bay IN throwing shells in
the rebel positions from early morning.
Under the diversion thus created
Gen. Rios ordered the advance OF three
columns commanding the last In per-
son. the rebels could by no means
reply 10 the fire of the shipP, but they
offered most desperate resistance to
the land attack from behinu entrench-
mente and rife pits. Their defense
was evidently directed by some one OF
considerable ability. The chief object
OF Gen. Rios's attack was to cut of the
rebel communication across the lstnus
road leading to the important position
OF linus, wnich the rebels hold. The
rebel forces estimated at from 5000 to
5000 held the main position all day,
but eventually in the evening eaw the
Spanisrds In possession OF the village
OF Rlcayan and the road from which,
however, they were forced to retire
curing tina night after destroying the
rebel works. -Four hundred rebel Gead
and wuunded we're found Inside the
trenches. The greatest savagery was
displayed by the defenders who, when
dying, hred at the Spanish troops
or tried to cut them down. In
one place they blew up small
detachment of Spanish troops
who thought that resistance was over.
The Spanish official report estimated
wounded, but next Gay the steamers
Isabel anu Filipino arrived at Manila
from the scene OF the conflict with
over 400 Spanish officers and mon, In.
GLIDING two superior officers.
Spanish troops suffered terribly from
the riffs fire directed from pits and
other shelters, and IL ia believed the
official estimate is very far from the
truth. The rebels remain in posses
sion of their ueienses. 1t is impossible
to say what was their loss, but from
the nature OF the ground and superior
position 1t can not be nearly as sewers
as that OF the attacking party.
The rebel fire Ia naid to have been
nstonisaingly briak and well directed,
while the machine guns were served
by ISpanish deserters who month
before had Joined the rebels. Though
the Spanisras claim the victory, no
one can regard 1t as such, as the rebels
are just rs strongly placed "a before.