The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-04-07
With THE
FIGHTERS
Who Are ChastiSing
the Filipinos.
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SkETCHES By A WASHINGTON BOY
Who 4. helping to Establish Uncle
sans Authority In the East
ern hemisphere.
SkETCHES By 4 WASHINGTON BOY

The following interesting letter
from Corporal r. A. Johnson. Of
Company c % the First Washington
volunteers. was received by A. y.
Foeei yesterday and Is furnished for
publication;
In the Trenches. March l, iss9.--
We had a nice trip over here. We
stopped two and one-half days at
Honolulu. a very pretty place. I
met several acauaintances there.
among them your Democratic friend.
Jake Ralph. who il employed with
the Honolulu Railroad company. !
think. and IL ding we'll We left
Honolulu November :. and with the
exception Of a couple Of days Of very
rough weather, had pleasant
Journey, and anchored In the motor
ious Manila bay November rs; hut
we did not come ashore until Nov
embsr 80.
We were stationed out In the sub
urhs In the eastern part OF Manila.
and close 10 the insurgents lines,
and assigned outpost duty. We per-
formed this duty until February 4.
when shortly before 10 o'clock In the
evening orders came for us 20 pro-
eeed To the front at once. our COM
pany responded promptly and we
marched In columns OF four to
nloek house No. II. Here we de-
pIayed as skirmishers.
The night was very dark. and
we marched in Tine of skirmishers TO
within about go yards of where the
enemy lay in trenches and behind
stone walls. Here we halted and
lay down. with our rifles cooked and
pointed In the direction of the enemy
I've could not see them In the dark.
and in this position we lay quiet un-
I'll about $50 o'clock in the morning.
when they opened up an awful fire
do much damage.
We Immediately returned the
compliment with just as heavy and
much better IRE. This was kept
up for hours. We could tell that
our fire did its work as their fire was
growing weaker.
AT daybreak we found that our
company. G OF Tacoma. was direct
ly In front ~ their artillery. and
when II was light enough they open
ed up on us with the big guns. but
they could not get our range. and
their shells went over our heads.
Four pieces Of our mountain bat
terry came to our assistance. They
opened an awful fire on the enemy,
and after about two hours hard
fighting the enemy retreated ana We
advanced. We captured their his
guns and took many prisoners and
marched on TO Santa Ana, their
headquarters and stronghold. The
Fliipinos fed before us panic-strick-
en-.
we captured and burned Santa
Ana. that Ia. We burned all property
belonging to the insurgents. From
here we marched up along the PaslE
river to san Pedro Macati, where We
drove them out and captured loads
OF ammunition OF all kinds and burn
ed the town. We then established
our lines about half mile outside
of San Pedro MRcati 80 ms TO hold
the territory we had captured, and
await reinforcements.
'tNefN nlRhi Ah' ihSui N'h'1 '"'"'N
us and try to drive us back, but we
don't drive back. We are here 10
stay, We lie behind our trenches,
and when they come near enough
we pour a couple OF volleys OF lead
into them and fall back; that, those
who don't fall dead.
since February I. and up TIL to-
day. about 700 insurgents have beer
killed. 40 You see that the Ameri-
cans are the best shots. In day
or two we are going to advance or
Pasie city. The city Is well fortified
and there are about 5000 insurgents