Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-24

three officers The insurgents are !:
retteating to Santa Barbara, but
the fighting continues. !:
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FILIPINos CONCENTRATING.
Manila. Nov. 23-12:5O p. m.-The in
surgents from the North are concen-
trating at Montalban and San Mnteo,
where 1t Is expected they will make re-
sistance. The Spaniards never occu-
pied these places; and the insurgents
believe them to be impregnable.
A reconnaissance to the Northwest OF
San Mateo Tuesday developed the fact
that the rebels were moving stores and
men to Montalban. The number OF the
insurgents Is unknown.
A. reconnaissance made yesterday
showed that 200 rebels are entrenched
at San Mateo, and others in the valley
between there and Mariquina, where
the rebel outposts are stationed.
General Young entered San Mateo
last September and found the place not
especially adapted for q strong resist-
ance. M ~ y9 rsl5
MACARTHUR 4 AT TARuAc.s
Manila, Nov. 23.-5:55 p. m.-ceneral
Macarthur has returned to Tnrlac,
and has established his headquarters
at Agulnaldo's forme- residence.
During the entire movement from
Corona to Dagupan not snot was
fred fhe inhabitants Of San Carlos
met the Americans with q band forn1-
erly attached TO the insurgent army
and the Alcade( Mayor with General
Macarthur and Colonel Bail In a
carriage. headed n procession through
the town. General Macarthur received
an ovation.
Explaining the Americans intention,
he announced that they intended to
garrison all the towns on the railroad
Hundreds of men are In the fields,
harvesting rice, along the railroad.
AGUINALDo SURPRISED.
The foreigners In the. territory as
sert that Aguinaldo was not expect
Ing the American advance for month,
when the rains would have finished
He had permitted a large part Of his
army to scatter to their homes and
do the harvesting. The soldiers had
hidden their rifles about their homes
If this Is trne, many riles-are likely
to be brought in to secure the $50 Of
Tered for each one weapon seized.
A NOTEWORTHY FEATURE.
The fording of Pampanga river, above
Tarlac. by the Thirty-siXth Regiment
and a battalion of the Seventeenth
Il
The river Is broad and swift Part of
the command was .ferrled over on RATS
and the remainder swan over holding
on to life line strung across.
General Wheaton, when General Mac
Arthur communicated with him, was
holding San Fabian and two or three
neighborlng towns.
A REMARKABLE STROKE.
Captain Leonhauser's capture of the
town OF O'Donnel was q remarka BILE
stroke. His command consisted OF three
companies of the Twenty-fifth Regl-
ment, Captain Albright and Lieutenants
Bates and Morton commanding. He
started at o'clock at night and
marched fifteen miles in the mud. The
only regular approach was along q
road and over a river whose bridge was
strongly fortified. The entrance of the
town was entrenched. The soldiers left
the road and followed cattle trial to
the rear of the town.
AT daylight the commands separated,
s'et advancing along the bank to the
s-,-- ALL the other f1anking It, The in
surgeht force was asleep, except those
at the outposts, who We're captured
without shooting. One platoon ran down
the main street to a trench and the
other detachments made quick search
of the houses.
THE SCENE DESCRIBED.
An officer, describing the scene said:
THE negro soldiers were pouring out
of every house. dragging sleeping,
frightened Filipino warriors, kicking
them into the street. It was a race to
see which company could corral the
most Filpinos The women and chill
6ren believing the stories told that the
negro soldiers were cannibals, shrIeked
r..nr 4 L :
secured the Filipinos were surprised by
being told to so to their homes and at
tend to work"
FIGHTING AND RETREATING.
Manila, Nov. 2s.-1o:5O p. m.-Colonel
Carpenter. November 18th, advanced to
. Santa Barbara. straight north from
Jaro, taking trench after trench. the
emmy fighting and retreeting.
General Hughes column had steadily
been advancing north to gain posi-