The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-13
General Schwan's Men Returning
from MalabOn Through Swamps to
Their Former Positions.
METHODS OF THE INSURGENTS
WARRIORS ONE MINUTE AND "INNO-
CENT, AMIGOS THE NEXT.
Hide Their Arms When Americans
Khaki Cloth-FunstOn's Views.

MANILA, Oct. 12.-General Young, with
two battalions of the Twenty fourth In
fantry, nine troops of the Fourth Cavalry
and the scouts of the Thirty-seventh Infan-
try, left Santa Ana at o'clock this morn
ing and occupied Arayat at o'clock, aft
er skirmish lasting half an hour.
The enemy. estimated at three hundred
men, retreated toward Magellan.
The swampy character of the country
prevented the use of cavalry.
The men of the Twenty-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 ac-
complished its object, the troops are all re-
turning to their former positions, abandon
ing the towns taken. General Schwan is en-
route from Perez das Marinas to linus with
the infantry, while the artillery and cav
airy 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 insur-
gents. retreated TO Slang and Indang, at
the base of the mountain.
The movement of United States troops
was a fine display of American generalism
and energy, while the Filipinos adopted
what General Alejandrino terms our ''pe-
culiar method of warfare
The whole country is an immense swamp,
and the Filipinos never expected that the
Americans could or would attempt to in
wade 1t during the wet season. Moreover,
the line of march furnished a succession Of
surprises. the advancing troops being gen.
orally attacked from unexpected points.
FROM WARRIORS TO AMIGOS.
In Cavite province, the scene of the hot
test fights and their greatest successes over
the Spaniards, the F'ilipinos might have
been expected to make resolute stand, If
anywhere, but after their whippings at
Cavite, Viejo and Noveleta their tactics
consisted chiefly in continuous exhibition
of their agility and their Transformation
from warriors to amigos.
The marines, while accommodating about
the scene of Sundays encounter, found that
the trenches had already been reoccupied,
although the enemy manifested more than
their usual willingness to retreat before the
Americans.
Armed bands have reappeared along the
shore road between Bacoor and Rosario,
and the troops returning by that route ex-
pect another fight at Rosario.
AT Malabon the Americans corraled two
or three hundred natives supposed to be
fighting men. A few of them were caught
with arms in their hands, but large num-
bers 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 flour
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 con-
tngent spent an unhappy night incarcerated
in church.
TWO PILLARS OF THE ENEMY.
A native priest and an uncle of General
Trias were discovered in the Filipino ar
senal. outside the town. They are credited
with being two of the pillars of the insur-
rection. but they vigorously proclaim their
innocence.
The leading citizens of Rosario are tenn
porarlly engaged in towing fleet of canoes
laden with the American army impedimenta
at Bacoor.
The prisoners, with the exception of those
caught red-handed. will be released, as, ow-
ing to the fact that the insurgents have
so many more men than guns. the keeping
of prisoners is a useless experiment unless
the policy of RECOMMENDATION which General
Weyler pursued is TO be adopted.
In conversation with an Associated Press
representative a leading merchant of Ro-
sario remarked: They will all be engaged
When asked where the army had gone,
the merchant replied: "a majority of them
are here. They simply hid their guns when
they saw 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.
The work of the commissary and quar-
termaster departments. directed by Cap
tains Biddle and Horton, was remarkable
throughout. The transportation OF supplies
from Rosario to Malabon seemed TO be i'm
possible. The wagons had to be repeatedly
unloaded and reloaded while being dragged
through the mire.
General Schwan is marching back without
the teams, all the loads of baggage being
shipped from Bacoor by canoes and the
wagons going empty.
A telegraph squad under Lieutenant Clark
kept the wire abreast OF the line 10 Mala-
bon, but in order TO do this the teams had to
be abandoned and the wire carried by
coolies.
Last of the Volunteers Returning.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Oct. l2.-word
has been received that the transport In