The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-13
AMERICANS FIGHTING HARD
GENERAL YOUNG DRIVES REBELS
 OUTOF ARAY4T
Enemy Set Fire to Town But Succeeded la Burning Only small Section General schyyan's Advance on San Francisco de Malabon a Great Sur- prise to Insurgents.

Manila, Oct. 12-6;1O D. m.-Genera
 Young, with two battalions of the | Twentyfourth infantry, nine troops ot
 the Fourth cavalry and the scouts of 1 the Thirty seventh infantry, left Santa
 Ana at o'clock this morning and occu-
 pied Arayat at o'clock after a skirm-
 ish lasting half an hour. The enemy
 estimated at three hundred men, re-
 treated toward Magellan. The swampy
 character of the country prevented the
 use of the cavalry. The men of the | Twentyfourth charged the trenches
 The enemy set the town on fire and succeeded in burning a small section. Five dead and three wounded Filipinos
 were left on the field. The Americans had one man wounded.
 11:20 p. m.-General Schwan's expedi- tion having accomplished it's object, the troops are all returning to their former positions, abandoning the towns. Gen. eral Schwan is en route from Perez Das Marinas to linus with the infantry, while the artillery and cavalry and all mule teams are retracing their route from Malabon to Bacoor with the signal corps removing the wires. General Trias, with the organized bodies of in- surgents, retreated to Silang and In dang at the base of the mountain. The movement of United States troops was fine display of American generalship and energy, while the Filipinos adopted what General Alejandrno termed ''our peculiar method of warfare"
 The whole country is an immense swamp and the Filipinos never expected that the Americans could or would at- tempt to invade it during the wet sea son. Moreover, the line of march fur nished succession of surprises the ad vancing troops being generally attack ed from unexpected points.
 In Cavte province the scene of the hottest fights and their greatest suc- cesses over the Spaniards, the Filipinos might have been expected to make resolute stand. if anywhere, but after their whippings at Caviteviejo and Noveleta their tactics consisted chiefly in a continuous exhibition of their agil- ity and their transformation from war riors to Amigos.
 The marines, while accommodating about the scene of Sundays encounter find that the trenches have already been reoccupied, although the enemy mani fested more than their usual willingness tn retr hnf ba r1n bands have reappeared along the shore road between Bacoor and Rosario and the troops returning by that route ex- pect another stand 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 uniforms. A majority of them were in the garb of Amigos, but they are sus- pected of shooting at the troops from houses a growing habit, which four ished throughout the advance whenever small parties of Americans strayed from the main body The prisoners are a white elephant on the hands of the Americans. The Malabon contingent spent an unhappy night incarcerated in 6 church.
 A native priest and an uncle of Gen. eral Trlas were discovered in the Fiji pino arsenal outside the town. They are credited with being two of the pill lars of the insurrection, but they vigor- ously proclaim their innocence The leading citizens of Rosario are tempo ralily engaged in rowing a fleet of laden with the American army's to 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 l prisoners is useless expense unless the l policy Of rconcentration which General | Wsyler pursued is to be adopted.