The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-07
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ADVANCING ON MANILA
Admiral Dewey Reports Sew
eral Victories for the
Philippine Insurgents.
MANY SPANISH PRISONERS
FIFTY OFFICERS AND 1900 MEN
IRE TAKEN.
MANY SPANISH PRISONERS
FIFTY OFFICERS And $500 MEN
IRE TAKEN.

British Gunboat Swift Arrives at Hong
the Insurgents Have Cut the Railroads
Outside of Town and Advanced With
i'm Four Miles of the City-spanish
Regiment Rebels and Shoots Its
Officers.
Washington, June 6.-After q, lot of
conflicting rumors of naval engage
ments, the landing Of troops and such
matters, at the navy department there
came at the close of the day one i'm
portant bit of news embodied in a re-
port from Admiral Dewey of important
successes achieved by the insurgents
at Manila. The department posted the
following bulletin regarding the mat
ter:
Admiral Dewey reports insurgents have
won several victories over Spanish in Cavite
province and taken fifty officers and $500
men prisoners.
The officials have been more anxious
than they cared to betray as to Ad-
miral Deweys condition. They were
not seriously apprehensive Of danger
to the fleet, but an impression was
gaining ground that the admiral had
not maintained the same measure of
success in his operations in Manila bay
that rewarded his first effort. The re-
port received goes to show that his
plans are working out admirably, that
he has placed upon the insurgents the
burden of conducting military opera
tions against the Spanish and that he
has prevented the corruption of the in
surgent leaders by the Spaniards which
appeared at one time to be threatening.
There is some speculation here as to
how the insurgents will treat the pris-
oners they have taken, who are more
numerous, it is said, than all the cap
lures made by the Cuban insurgents
since their war began.
copyright, 1898, The Associated Press.1
Hong Kong, June 6.-The British
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from Manila, reports that the insur-
gents have cut the railroads outside
the town and advanced to within four
miles of the city, A Spanish regiment
has mutinied and shot it's officers.
Fighting between the insurgents and
the Spanish troops is frequent and the
former brought a thousand prisoners
to Cavite. The Americans, it is report
ed at Manila, assist the insurgents with
boats and machine guns. The Swift
reports rumor that insurgents had
captured and tortured a number of
priests. The British residents, at the
time the Swift left, still remained in
Manila; but the other foreigners were
taking refuge on the foreign ships.
The correspondent of The Associated
Press at Manila, under date of June 2,
says: IT have traversed the whole re-
gion of fighting during the last three
days in spite of the prohibition. I
found the insurgents strongly posted
at Caloocan, eight miles north of Man
lila, and at Bacoor, the same distance
south. To the east / found nothing in
the way of insurgent entertainments.
The Spaniards hold the whole Pasig
river. which falls into the bay imme-
diately below the town of Manila, to
the Lagoon. The two sections of the
insurgent forces signal their move
rnents with fire balloons. To the north
ward the rising is general and the
Spaniards are few. The railroad has
been cut in several places and the Eng
lish overseers have been warned off,