Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-30
PUSHING ON TO MAL0L0S
Fighting North of Manila Con-
tinues Monday.
OTIS KEEPS THE ENEMY MOVING.
Loss of the American Forces In the Bat
ties of Monday-Last of Entrenched
Positions Said to Have Been Passed
Railroad Bridges Destroyed to Impede
Advance OF Artillery.

WASHINGTON. March 2S.--A cable
eral Otis saying that the battle con-
tinued all day on MarcD q, with the
loss of about forty on the American
side. He says that the troops will
press forward in the morning. Aguin-
aldo commanded the insurgents in per-
son. 1t is supposed llat the dispatch
was sent on the evening of Monday
March q.
The following is the dispatch receiv-
ed from General Otis referred to in the
previous bulletin. 1t reached WASH
ington at S:55 yesterday morning.
MANILA, March 27.-Adjutant
General Washington: Macarthur holds
Matilda; severe fighting today and our
casualties about forty. The insur-
gents have destroyed bridges, which
impeded the progress of train and ar
tillery. Our troops met the concen-
trated insurgent forces on northern
line commanded by Aguinaldo in per-
son, and drove them with considerable
slaughter. They left nearly 100 dead
on the field and many prisoners and
small arms were captured. The ccl-
umn will press on in the morning.
OTIS"
MANILA. March 27.-General Nc
Arthur's division spent the night and
morning at Maykawyan, the next sta
ition beyond Polo. Afte accommodating
his front he pushed along the railroad
this afternoon toward MaloloS. If the
statement of the thirty-five prisoners
captured today is true the main body
of the enemy has retreated to Maiolos.
There are no more trenches to en-
counter, although over thirty villages,
including the larger settlements of Bull
a can and Gudguinto, intervene.
At every railroad station circulars
have been posted, signed by the Fill
pino ommander-in-chief, Antonio
Luna, ordering all spies and bearers of
news to the enemy to be shot without
trial and instructing that all hooters
and ravishers be treated in the same
manner. Further all towns aban
doned by the Filipino troops are first
to be burned.
While deploring the existence of war,
the circular maintains the undeniable
right of the Filipinos to defend their
homes, lives and lands against would
be-dominators who would kill them,
their wives and children" adding that
InlS mOllVe ought 10 lIllpel dill rlllplu-
os to sacrifice everything.
The Smelling of Parnaque was not
premeditated. The turret ship Mon
adnock anchored Off the town and the
insurgents, emboldened by the long
silence of the warships on guard duty,
opened fire on it with muskets. with
the result that one man was killed and
three were wounded. The Monaunock
ho1 ha ino1nl-
ing the church.
The Washington regiment had an eX-
citing experience and displayed much
gallantry. The soldiers found band
of insurgents concealed in a stone
house over which the trench flag was
flying. A private volunteered to set
fire to the building. He did so and
the troops approached while it was
burning and the Filipinos had appar-
emily fled. But they were greeted WIFI
a sudden volley from the balcony of
the house, resulting in the building
being cleared of the enemy in short
ored.
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES FROM
GENERAL OTIS.
WASHINGTON. MARCH 2S.-The
following cablegram from General Otis
was received by the War department:
Adjutant General. Washington. d.
c.: Attacks on Hall and pumping sta
ton last night easily repulsed. Nc
Arthur with moving column, has
driven enemy, but cannot gam point
north of Polo on account of roughness
of country: must strike railway south
of that point; this will enable mos Of
Aeuinaldo's troops to escape north,
still he may oppose. as best Of his
army, consisting of released prisoners
of war, former native Spanish troops,
concentrated there. This northern
army will be pressed south of the city
Three thousand insurgent troops from
southern Luzon provinces have con-
centrated. Lawton will take care OF
them Affair satisfactory "O1IS.