The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-13
YOUNG TAKES ONE
Business of Capturing Towns
and Abandoning Them
Is Still Proceeding Under Otis
Direction.
WADE THROUGH MIRE.
Soldiers Endure Hardships Al
most Unparalleled.
Some Are Killed and Others
Are Wounded.
THROUGH MIRE.
AND ALL FOR WHAT {?
Captured Territory Is Reoccu-
pied as Soon as Left.

Manila, Oct 13.-General Young, with
two battalions of the Twenty-fourth in
fantry, nine troops of the Fourth cav
airy and the scouts of the Thirty-sev-
enth infantry, occupied Arayat after
skirmish, lasting half an hour.
The enemy, estimated at 300 men, re-
treated toward Magellan. The swampy
character of the country prevented the
use of cavalry. The men of the TWen-
ty-fourth charged the trenches. The
enemy set the town on fire and sue
ceeded in burning small section Five
dead, and three wounded FilipinOS were
left on the field. The Americans had
one man wounded.
General Schwan's expedition having
accomplished it's object the troops are
all returning to their former positions,
abandoning the towns taken.
General Schwan is enrOute from Pc
reZ Das Marinas to linus with the in
fantry. while the artillery and cavalry
and all mule teams are retracing their
route from MalabOn to BacOOr, with the
signal corps removing the wires. Gen
eraI TriaS, with the organized bodies
of insurgents, retreated to Slang and
Indiang, at the base of the mountain.
The movement of United States troops
was a fine display of American general
ship and energy, while the FflipinOs
adopted what General Alejandrino
terms ''Our peculiar method of war
fare"
The whole country is an immense
swamp and the Filipinos never expect
ed that the Americans could or would
attempt to invade it during the wet
season Moreover. the line of march
furnished a succession of surprises, the
advancing troops being generally at
tackled from the unexpected points,
In Cavite province the scene OF the
hottest fights and their greatest sue
cesses over the SpaniardS, the FilipinOS
might have been expected to make
resolute stand, if anywhere, but after
their whippings at Cavite, Viejo, and
Nove1eta, their tactics consisted chief
ly in a continuous exhibition of their
transformation from warriors to ami
gOs.
The marines. while accommodating
about the scene of Sundays encounter
find that the trenches have already
been reoccupied, although the enemy
manifested more than their usual will
ingness to retreat before the Ameri-
cans. Armed bands have reappeared
along the shore road between BacOOr
and Rosario and their troops returning
by that route expect another fight at
Rosario. At Malabon the Americans
corralled two or three hundred natives,
supposed to be fighting men. A few of
them were caught with arms in their
hands, but large numbers were found
in hiding dressed in khaki like the
American uniform.
A majority of them were in the garb
of amigos, but they are suspected of
| shooting at the troops from houses, a
growing habit, which fiourished
| throughout the advance whenever small
parties of Americans strayed from the
main body. The prisoners are a white
| elephant on the hands of the Ameri-
cans. The Malabon contingent spent an
unhappy night incarcerated in a church.
| A native priest and an uncle of General
Trias were discovered in the Filipino
| arsenal outside the town. They are
| credited with being two of the pillars
| of the insurrectiOn, but they vigorously
proclaim their innocence.
The leading citizens of Rosario are
| temporarily engaged in towing a fleet
| of canoes laden with the American
army's impedimenta at Bacoor. The
! prisoners, with the exception of those
caught red handed, will be released as
! owing to the fact that the insurgents
have so many more men than guns. the
| keeping of prisoners is a useless ex-
| pense unless the policy of reconcentra-
| ton which General Weyler pursued is
! to be adopted.
| In conversation with an Associated
| Press representative, a leading mer-
! chant of Rosario remarked:
''They will all be engaged in their old
| business as soon as released"
| When asked where the army had
| gone, the merchant replied:
! "A majority of them are here. They
simply hid their guns when they saw
| a superior force approaching
| The fighting falls the hardest on the
| women and children. Hundreds of them
| spent the night before the Americans
| reached Rosario in boats, the bay for
| miles being crowded with small craft
| containing noncombatants, few of whom
| remained in the town.
| Ihe work OF Ine COTn1nlSSaTY and
! quartermaster's departments, directed
! by Captains Biddle and Horton, was
| remarkable throughout. The transpor-
| tation of supplies from Rosario to
| Malabon seemed to be impossible. The
! wagons had to be repeatedly unIoaded
| and reloaded while being dragged
| through the mire.
! General Schwan is marching back
| without the teams, all the loads of bag
| gage being shipped from Bacoor by
| canoes and the wagons going empty
| A telegraph squad under Lieutenant
I Clark kept the wire abreast of the line
! to Malabon, but in order to do this the
| teams had to be abandoned and the
| wire carried by coolies.
| GOING AFTER AGUINALDO
| New York, Oct. ia special to the
| Herald from Washington, says:
| While General SchWan is engaged in
| scattering the enemy in Cavite pro-
| vince, Generals Lawton and MacAr-
thur are making preparations for an
! important movement to the north of
| Manila.
Generals Macarthur and Lawton will
| proceed to the north in the hope of
| trapping Aguinaldo and his forces in
| between the three columns. General
| SchWan's movements to the southwark
| of Manila is merely in the nature of a
| demonstration and for the purpose of
! scattering insurgents who have in
| trenched themselves in Cavite province.
the home of Aguinaldo and the nest of