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struck the key 70 the rebel position and Lawton
did no mean to give II UP II he could hold 10 II
MARINES TO THE RESCUE

fnR IN erir a H., k,IdS att
AN"'Nks TO THE RESCUE
Ihings got 80 hot on shore that the shippers
nnaiy decided TO take more active part than they
nad oeen having and so two parties OF marines,
ioo III all, were landed on the beach and sent to
inc aid OF the reconnaissance. With them went
ono Of those discouragefs OF febellious ardor,
Colt automatic rapid FIRE gun, one OF the kind
mat you pull the trigger and II does the rest to
tho tune OF 400 shots a minute. This help was
very timely and with 1t the men OF the Twenty
nrst were game to hold out until Lawton could
get back to the command and set the thing going
In the direction oil winding up the rebels
"hile all this was going on there was very little
10 interest those who were not In 1t except specula
uon as 70 what was all about for 1t was all in tho
WICK oamooos ana we couidn soc a blessed thing,
uhoush we couid hoar plenty. IL was only a few
huhured yards from the outpost where we sat to the
oeach' ana not much further, II any 70 the line OF
inc "ooos aneao whore the insurgents had taken
posiuon We found out later in the day that they
"efo intencned oehlnd the Zapote river but at
una' uho VIC oio not know 'hat the ZApote came as
lar down as the woods where the lighting was GO
ing on
THE REBELS NOISY OLD CANNON
About tho only diversion w., rot MA. ono. =,
twice whnn the in u,rrents shot a, us u,h cannon
thew had nost,d ann. vh.re IN IN. ,voo. dis.c,, L.,
our front That was thing IN s,,iLs ,.,ro, 10 IN.
besrt of n wooden man that c,nnon Whot.,.r a
wa, thew shot vou cou,d be,r il coming hefo,. IN.
gun went of They s,v IN, "scroam ~ m. sb,sn-
nell can be heard on,v after the shell has n,ss.d
and tina, Mr. Reu;noton,. accommodates nic,,,r.
Ia based on theory which Is not horne ont Inv IN.
facts However, saw man this morning throw
up oo'n hhnas una ioi nav on mis- lace long oefore
inc sheai go' even WIN him' ana " never did get
near MIN
Inc nrst shell tho rebels let go at us came Just
over inc heads oil Inc men OF heny 8 battery, who
had stationed two three-inch guns and two OF the
mountain guns Just at the left OF the road at the
| outpost and burst few feet behind the guns
There was such row when 1t burst and so many
things fell to tho ground. that at first we thought
| they were firing cobblestones at us But when We
looked for the stones wo found that they were iron
balls about an inch and hall in diameter. Then
We remembered that there had been vast piles OF
such things In the old navy yard at Cavite, and
thai was probably where the rebels got their am
mniton There could DO no doubt that the thing
they were shooting was a smooth bore, and mas
much as in the first days of the row with Spain last
year they were permitted to take as many such old
| relics as they wanted from the yard in Cavite, 1t
became apparent what manner OF ordnance they
7 were using Their aim was all right and they had
4
their execution was that tho shrapnel were so old
that the powder had all gone bad and the bursting
charge didnt work worth cent When the thing
blew up instead OF scattering those little iron balls
| AL oFet d 'en aero ioI 'ne1e was haroiy enough
ioroo !" Sepa'"'e uea oio i'oth aho'no' anu 'iies
| is1' HNA "e''e'
| KENLY's GUNS GET INTO THE FIGHT.
The smoke from the FIRST discharge of the rebel
| gun had hardly risen from its muzzle when Kenly
was hustling forward his four noun tain guns to a
| bend in the road where he could get fair sweep
| down At tho smoothbore All four guns were mado
| ready and then Kenly waited By and by there
| was another roar down there In the woods and a
| cloud of thick blue smoke began TO rise through
the bamboos Instantly Kenly gave the order TO
fire and ono after another tho little mountain guns
sent their shells whistlinr down into the woods II
took the rebels some timo to load their old blunder-
| buss and il was perhaps ten minutes before they
replied TO Kenly's pets Then there was the Same
| old roar and cloud of smoke followed BY the most
unearthly noise that over mortal heard. No
civilized shell can begin 70 mako the row that de-
crepi' od snrnphei u'a "as "nisu'' "noe1'
asroah anu 'a'ioA oAi ''ieu up INV oio a"o nam
| mefoo ou' in0 uih 'aSpins' peheua'hs' lung
ura"n-ou' wal ena' S'at. ou INC hesh o' sou.
! MARIO" ooneA Inc 'idieuiouS pd'' vi ~ W. S Una,
| you were saua'od mat ~ INC 'hihs came ''sn'
suaieh' al you you oouiu oach IL "'nou' even
hurting your nnSers Ndidn nave speed ehoue n
70 marx inc so' oar'h "he'e ~ iei' pu' " ihaao
noise enough ior seventeen regiments oil Devils
all yelling tine same nme
| Tho second try from smoothbore met the same
| response from Konly as the first After that there
| was silence on tho part Of smoothbore for a long
Tina then he tried once more This time he was
supported by infantry fire as Is always proper
with artillery. and ono of Kenlys men was hit in