The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-21
THE RAPID SWEEP CONTINUES
THE PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN Is 4
REMARKABLE ONE.
Although fmpedcd by Tropical Rains
Americans Are Moving North. Cnp-
turing Towns and Villages.

Manila, November 20. $50 a. m.--only
fragmentary reports reach Manila of the
! operations north which. when the story
| is known. Will prove to have been the most
remarkable campaigning the Filipino war
has known. General Iawtons division Is
: spread thinly over the territory beyond
San Jose where the telegraph ends, Gen
eral Young's two regiments of cavalry are
continuing their rapid sweep into the new
towns and the infantry is being showed
forward to hold the towns the cavalry
takes. all in country whose natural diff
ficulties are increased by tropical rains.
making rivers OF creeks and swamps of
fields. Wagon transportation is supposed
to have been practically abandoned, the
American troops living on captured sup
plies and the little product the insurgents
have left. Major Samuel Swigerts squad
ron OF the Third cavalry is reported TO
be engaging a greatly superior force at
Pozorrubio. northeast OF Dagupan. These
troops have fought three engagements and
are now holding their position waiting
Tor relnfOrcements. II is believed at head-
quarters that this Filipino force is COW
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10 bibguet mountains. that the insurgents
planned to retreat northeast along the
Tayugu road which is stocked with store
houses, three OF which the Americans have
seized. To draw upon en- roure and tnal
only the insurgent advance force had pass
ed Tayugu before the American cccupa-
ton. the main body of Aguinaldo's army
being within our lines. The majority oil
these insurgents may disorganize aud pose
as amigos when the Americans overtake
them.
Among the scraps OF news obtainable
are stories OF the hardships the American
army Is meeting with 1t is reported for
/ instance that General Lawton narrowly
! escaped drowning while fording a swift
river when Lieutenant Luna and two
privateB We're lost.
Captain Henry A. Leonhauser with
battalion OF the Twenty-ftth infantry is
on his way from Bamban to O'Donnell, TO
take the insurgent cartridge filling works
there. Filipino captain who sur
rendered with four men to Colonel Andrew
5. Burt of the Twenty fifth infantry dis
covered the factory and volunteered 10
guide the expedition.
The governor OF Nueva Visaya has de-
termined like many other Filipinos IN
these days that the administration of his
province can not change too quick and Is
coming to Manila to tell Major General
Otis OF his loyalty and incidentally request
z
/ new regime.
4 ADMIRAL Watson has received an ad-
ditional credible report that Lieutenant
j. c. Gilmore and five of the captured
sailors OF the United States gunboat York
town were at Tarlac November /. Lieu
tenant Gilmore was living in a Filipino
generals house.
The cruiser Baltimore starts for Lin
gayen today and Rear Admiral Watson
proposes to send another ship to Natlguln
II the gnnboat Helena, which Is overdue,
has not returned to Lingayen. Sailors
from the gunboat Castine occupy Fam
boanga on the southwest extremity of the
island of Mandanao. The business men,
chiefly Chinese, requested Commander ..
w. Very OF the Castlne, to take posses
sion of the place and protect them from
the insurgents. Commander Very landed
a naval force and although no details have
been received, 1t appears he found that
he had large contract on his hands and
telegraphed to Major General Otis request
ing the presence of troops. but none are
available except by Withdrawing part of
the force from one OF the neighborlng Is
! lands temporarily. The original plan was
to have Brlgader General Alfred Bates
establish the headquarters of the goveror-
ship of the Mohammedan Islands there
when the new regiment arrived. 1t Will
be carried ont later when General Bates
returns from his trip TO the southern
iHifAhuS' iit pttn NlAiNilk tht Eiiii'
sons of JoIo Siassi and Bongoa Tho
frendliness Of the Moras for the Ameri-
cans is increasing under General Sales
diplomatic administration. The threaten
ed fueds of the Datohs. Jakainys and CATO
against the sultan will probably be avert
ed through the pacific Offices of the Ameri-
| can officers,
Mindnanao villagers have seized
smuggling schooner bound from Iloilo 10
Zamboanga and supposed to be run by
two DISCHARGED soldiers They murdered
all the crew,
Yorktown bound on a months trip to Bal
bac and Borneo to observe the methods
followed by the British in the government
OF the Mohammedans.