Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-04-27
FIGHT WITH REBELS.
The Filipino Insurgents Repulsed
by Americans Near Taguig.
ADMIRAL DEWEY IS INTERVIEWED.
He Has Only superstition Concerning the
Fate Of the Gilmore Party Troops
for Gen. Otis-Little Sickness
Among the Soldiers.

Manila, April PA force of about
200 rebels attacked the outposts OF the
Washington regiment Thursday after
noon near Taguig, southeast of Manila,
near Pasig. Two companies immedi-
ately engaged the enemy and advanced
into the open in skirmish order. The
rebels were checked and routed after
two hours fighting, leaving II men
killed and wounded on the field. The
American troops obtained possession of
many Mauser rifles and many other
weapons. Three Americans were
wounded.
AT six o'clock Yesterday morning three
companies of the South Dakota regi-
ment marche from Bocave, and in con-
junction with three companies Of the
Minnesota regiment from Guiguinto,
north of Bocave, encountered rebel
force numbering fully 500 men, when
two miles out. The enemy retired
three miles in fairly good or Ter, in spite
Of the fact that they suffered heavy
losses. The Americans were compelled
to return to their camps, having ex-
hausted their ammunition.
Later the army tugs opened fire on
the enemy along the river banks. The
rebels are unusually active west of Ma
lolos as far as Calumpit. They have
been busily at work on their trenches,
and several new trenches have been
discovered within two miles of the rail-
road. Fires are burning east of the
railroad, and it would appear that the
rebels are evacuating the foothill towns
in anticipation of an attack upon the
part of the American troops.
ADMIRAL DEWEY IS INTERVIEWED.
Manila, April 9s.-Admiral Dewey, in
an interview said the expedition
of the gunboat Yorktown to Baler was
purely to rescue the Spanish soldiers
and priests who are besieged in church
there. The soldiers refused to surren-
der when ordered to lay down their
arms by Gen. Rios the Spaniard, at
the end of the Pari peace conference.
Admiral Dewey said he did not know
what had become of Lieut.. Gilmore and
the "A men in the launch. They had been
sent to sound the mouth of the river,
but went beyond the bend, out of sight
of the Yorktown. The supposition is
they were captured or killed by the
Spaniards or the 400 insurgents who
are besieging the Spanish garrison.
Dewey declined to say what
steps he would take toward a punitive
expedition,
TROOPS FOR GEN. OTIS.
Washington, April %. Nearly 5000
regulars of the $4,000 that the president
has determined to order to Gen. Otis
during the coming summer have been
practically selected, and no difficulty is
apprehended by the war department
in securing the remaining
), 900 by the time they are needed. Lack
of transportation facilities constitutes
the greatest problem, but Gen. Otis,
fortunately, does not require more than
30, 600 troops during the summer, and
by the time he does need the remaining
5000 they will be ready for him. and
the ships will be available to transport
them.
The following dispatch was received
at the war department yesterday:
Manila, April 2l.-Adiutant General, Wash
Ington, Troops abundanty supplied. Sick
ness, wounded included, is only seven and frac-
ton per cent of command. Otis.