The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-24
ANOTHER FIGHT
Philippine Rebels Said to Have
List Two Hundred Men.
DYNAMITE GUNS FOR MANILA
General McArthur'S Men ia Possession of
Angeles City-Frequent Skirmishes
With Rebels,
DYNAMITE GUNS FOR MANILA

MANILA, August II, s a. m.-The
Twelfth infantry left Calulut at sun
rise today and advanced up the rail
way. Captain Evans battalion de-
ployed to the right of the track and
Captain Woods to the left. Two COM
panies remained on the track with the
artillery The insurgents were found
we'll intrenched in front of the town,
the trenches having been dug within
few days and since the occupation of
Calulut.
At distance of 800 yards the Fill
ipinos opened fire. Their force was es-
timated by Colonel Smith at 800, al
though the residents afterward said it
exceeded those figures by a thousand.
The enemy sent heavy volleys against
the whole American line. Most of their
shooting, as usual, was high, but they
concentrated their heaviest fire down
the track upon the artillery.
Captain Smith kept the whole line
moving rapidly, with frquent rushes.
The insurgents attempted to flank Cap
tain Evans, and therefore two compa-
them back
Unable to stand our continuous vol
|leys the Filipinos abandoned the
Itrenches and retreated through the
town northward. 1t appears that they
had only received their supply of am
munition this morning. Had they been
attacked sooner they could have made
little resistance. The intense heat
|caused much suffering among the
Americans.
A reporter of the Manila Times, who
was accompanying Colonel Smith, was
shot in the head. One American officer
received slight wound IN the face.
Lieutenant Howland of General
Wheaton's staff, who knew the country
thoroughly, as the result of reconnois
sances and who assisted in directing
the movement, received a volley while
riding across a field close to the
trenches, but escaped uninjured.
WASHINGTON, August 16.-Another
|sharp engagement between MacArth-
ur's command and the insurgents was
reported to the War Department in the
following dispatch from General Otis:
"MANILA, August 16. - Adjutant
General, Washington: Macarthur S
troops occupy the country from Canda-
liza to point near Angeles, thence to-
ward Porac, taking within his line San
ta Arita, Guagua and BacOlOr. Colonel
Smith, with ten companies OF the
Twelfth infantry and two guns OF the
First artillery, today attacked a force
| of the enemy intrenched on the out
skirts of Angeles estimated at 2,oOO,
driving them to the north and lnhlct-
! in upon them reported loss of 200 killed
and wounded; our loss was two killed
and twelve wounded.
.On the 18th inst. General Young S
| troops, consisting of a detachment OF
Fourth cavalry, Twenty-first Infantry,
and Twenty-fifth lnfan-
try. drove the insurgents northeast OF
Manila through Maraquina, San Mateo,
/ into the mountains. Returning the fol-
lowing day column of insurgents, ooo
strong, descending road east OF ba-
llinag for the purpose of taking the rall-
way. was encountered and routed. lhlS
force is in full retreat northward, car
rying a number of their officers. AnSe-
| les will be permanently occupied al
once. oIlo'
| WASHINGTON, August lo.-iC was
stated at the War Department To-Day
that a vessel has been secured IN New
York to carry to the Philippines the
Sims-Dudley dynamite guns recently
procured for General Otis army and
Ammunition for their use. The war
Department experienced considerab Die
difficulty in arranging for the trans
portation of these guns and dynamite: ::
1t was considered inadvisable to send
them on army troopships, and frelght-
ers refused to carry them from San
Francisco. The name of the transpor-
tation company and vessel nave peen
withheld by the chief of the Bureau OF
Ordnance, but it is said that the Vessel
will carry the ordnance from New
York to Hongkong, and that II VIII
then be conveyed to Manila by ahoIhel