The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-07
PHILIPPINES
| INSURGENTS
Making Vigorous War on
I the Spanish Soldiers.
4
| THOUSAND SPAK|hRDS killed.
Insurgents Have Captured Five
.. Important Positions. .....,,,
E~2 s=rugss
DRIVING SPANISH INTO MANILA.

hQmlral Dewey, however, Will Not Fetmll
the Insurgents to Enter the Capital.
Meantime Natives Are Deserving tho
Spanish Flag and Rushing to the Stand.
ard of Aguinaldo, the Leader Of the In
surgent Forces-The Work Of Construct
ing Defenses at Manila Is Being Pushed.
J Hong Kong, June 7-The British
kunboat Swift, which has just arrived
from Manila, reports that the insur-
gents have cut the railways outside the
town and advanced to within four miles
sf the city. A Spanish regiment mu-
inied and shot its officers. Fighting
between the insurgents and the Spanish
troops Is frequent. The Americans. it
b reported at Manila. assist the insur-
gents with boats and machine guns.
rhe Swift repeats a rumor that the in
uurgents had captured and tortured a
number of priests. The British resi-
Rents, at the time the Swift left, still
remained In Manila, but the foreign
ers were taking refuge on the foreign
chipping.
The Spanish outposts have been
Hriven In all along the line stimuli
taneously and with great slaughter. 1t
u said that over thousand have been
killed. There has been fierce hand to
hand fighting for 10 hours, despite the
typhoon which is raging. The violent
winds and torrents of rain render the
rifles of the Spanish troops unavail-
ing. The natives easily win at every
step with their slashing knives.
The insurgents raided railway sta
tion ten miles to the north of Manila
and killed three priests and an officer
There has also been pitched battle
with Spanish posts south of Manila,
near Cavite, the result being that the
Insurgents retired. The Spanish casual
lies were 150.
At Manila the work of constructing
nsfenses goes on, and there are sand
bag breastworks in all directions. The
Americans are always using their
pearchlights, but they never interfere
with the work on the defenses. The
Spaniards believe that the Americans
Sre short of ammunition.
Meanwhile the insurgents are steadily
advancing along the coast supported
by the United States gunboat Petrol,
md are driving the Spaniards into
Manila. They have captured five i'm
portant positions nine miles from the
lcity. Four thousand Spanish REIN
Sorcements have been sent.
The spaniards hold the whole Pasis
river, which falls into the bay imme-
Aiately below the town of Manila, to
fhs lagoon. The two sections of the
Jnfurgent forces signal their move
Aents with fire balloons.
4 TO the northward the rising is gen.
erai, and the Spanish are few. The
railway has ben. cut in several places,
ma the English overseers have been
warned off.
+ To the southwark there has been
Gerce fighting on the Zapote river, be-
fwsen Bacoor and Las Pinas. The big
Eext battle Of the present campaign
lsas fought last Tuesday-May 81.
Fhe insurgents attacked on the left
brunch of the Zapote, waded across
eaid a typhoon. stormed the banks
for several miles along and carried
fhe Spanish trenches with knives.
On Wednesday they tried the right
light branch of the Zapote, but failed.
FEs Spaniards employed artillery all
Hay, but no casualties are reported.
The country is densely wooded and
swampy. Both parties shoot aimless-
". Nothing was visible in the tremen-
hous fusillade, and nobody seemed to
knsw what he was shooting at. Both
sides were buffers" The insurgents,
however. are excellent in melee.
The Spanards say they were vcto-
rious, but that they cannot follow up
the victory and annihilate the rebels
because of the American warships at
,Cayite. Moreover, they say it is nee
essary to save their energies for the
american troops. Meanwhile the vcln-
ity of Manila is an impenetrable net
work Of ambuscades.
| Chief Aguinaldo. In the course Of an
Interview, said that the insurgents are
but that Admiral Dewey refuses to
allow "hordes of passionate semi
payages to storm civilized metropo-
LIS" Admiral Dewey intends to await
The arrival of the American troops.
In the meantime the insurgents have
been forbidden to cross the Malote
river, seven miles south of Manila.
otherwise the Petrol will be stationed
There to lombard them.
Z Many natives will try to secure the
large reward the government has Of
Tered for the capture of the insurgent
chief Auginaldo, dead or alive. AL
ready several Of the insurgent officers
have been assassinated.
4 II Is officially declared that four ar
morcd cruisers, with colliers. torpedo
boats and transports carrying 10000
troops, have left Spain for eastern
waters. The Spanlards are utterly un-
Impressed by the naval defeat at Man
lila. They explain that their squadron
was vastly outclassed, and are con-
Hdent of a victory on shore. They are
determined to fight to the end, as the
hhipe did. Evidently they will never
learn common sense until Manila is an
initiated by street and house fighting
In the outer city and by a lombard
ment Of the walled citadel.
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