The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-13
YOUNG
OCCUPIES
ARAYAT
After skirmIsh Lasting Half an
Hour..Enemy Set Fire to
the Town.
GEN. SCHWAN'S EXPEDITION
Returning, Having Accomplished
its object..A Fine Display OF
American Generalship.

MANILA, Oct. 1850 p. m.-Gen-
eral Young, with two battalIons of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, nine troops of
the Fourth cavalry and the scouts OF
the Thlrty-seventh infantry, left SANTA
Anna at Z o'clock this morning, and
occupied Arayat at O'Clock, after Il
skirmish lasting half an hour.
The enemy, estimated at 800 men. re-
treated toward Malagan. 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
cseded in burning small section, Five
dead and three wounded Flliplnos 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 en- route from Pc
rez das Marlnas to linus with the in
fantry, while the artillery and the cav
airy and all mule teams are retracirg
their route from MaIabon to Bacoor.
with the signal corps removing the
wires. General Trias, with the organ
lied bodies Of Insurgents, retreated to
SLANG and Indlang, at the base of the
mountain.
Fine Display of GcncralshIp.
The movement of United States troops
was a flne display of American Gener-
alship and energy, while the FIliplnos
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 1t during the wet
season. Moreover. the line OF march
furnished a succession of surprises. the
advancing troops being generally at
tackled from unexpected points.
In Caylte province, the scene OF the
hottest nights and their greatest sue
cesses over the spnnIards, the Flip
mos might have been expected to make
a resolute stand. If anywhere, but after
their whlpplngg at cayite, Vlejo and
Noveleta, their tao tics consisted chief :
ly in continuous exhibition of their
agility and their transformation from
warriors to amigos.
The marines, while reconnoitering
about the scene of Sundays encounter
find that the trenches have already
been re-occupled, although the enemy
manifested more than usual willing
ness to retreat before the Americans
Armed bands have reappeared along the
shore road between Bacoor and Rosario
and the troops returning by that route
expect another fight at Rosario.
Had American Uniforms.
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 numbers were found In hiding
dressed in khaki like the American uni
form.
The prisoners. with the exception OF
those caught red handed, Will be re-
leased, as, owing to the fact that the
insurgents have as many more men
than guns, the keeping of prisoners Is
n useless expense. unless the policy OF
RECOMMENDATION. which General Weyles
pursued. is adopted.
In conversation with an Associated
Press representative. a leading mer.
chant of Rosario remarked: "They VIII
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 the children, Hundreds OF
them spent the night before the
Americans reached Rosario In boats. the
bay for miles being covered with small
craft, containing non-combatants, few
of whom remained In the town.
All PIGMENTS RECRUITED