The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Manila, November 2O.-The American
occupation of the country between
Manila and Dagupan is proceeding
with a rush.
General Macarthur is within five
miles Of Dagupan, which place
General Wheaton and General Law
ton will probably occupy. The rail-
road is practically intact beyond
Bamban, except for a distance of five
miles to the north and rails for hat
portion have been discoveed. Large
quantities of rolling stock have, how
ever, been destroyed. General Mac
Arthur is moving his troops by train
and the roads within General Lawton's
territory are becoming passable.
Captain Leonhaeuser accomplished
one of the best coups of the war.
Reaching O'Donnell by a night march
from Capas, on November 18th, he sur
prised the insurgent force, numbering
200, and captured all of them, with
their arms, 10000 rounds Of ammuni-
ton and four tons of subsistence. One
Filipino was killed, but there were no
American casualties.
Only fragmentary reports reach Ma
Mia on the operations north, which.
when the story is known, will prove
to have been the most remarkable
campaigning the Philippine war has
known. General LaWton's division is
spread thinly over the territory beyond
San Jose, where the telegraph ends.
General Young's regiments of cavalry
40 49, 49,
the new towns, and the nfantry is
being showed forward to hold the towns
the cavalry take. The natural diff
cultieS are increased indescribably by
tropical rains, making rivers out of
creeks and sWamps of fields. Wagon
transportation is supposed to have
been practically abandoned, the Ameri-
a troops living on captured supplies
and the little produce the insurgent
leVieS have left.
FILIPINO ARMY WITHIN OUR
LINES.
Major Samuel M. Swigert's squadron
of the Third cavalry is reported to be
engaging a greatly superior force at
PozZorrubio, northeast of Dagupan.
These troops have fought three en-
gagementS, and are now holding their
position, waiting for reinforcements.
1t is believed at headquarters this Fill
Pine force is covering the retreat of
the inSurgent leaders to the Binguet
mountains; that the insurgents plan
ned to retreat northeast along the Ia
yug road, which is stocked with store
houses which the Americans have Sc
cured, to draw Upon en- route, and tina
only the inSurgent van force had
passed Tayug before the American oc-
cupation, the main body of Aguinaldo's
army being within our lines. The ma
Jority of these insurgents may dis
organize and pose as amigos when the
Americans overtake them.
HARDSHIPS OF OUR TROOPS.
Among the scraps of news obtain
able are stories of the hardships the
American army is meeting with. 1t is
reported, for instance, that General
LaWtOn narrowly escaped drowning
while fOrding a swift river, when Lieu
tenant Luna and two private were
lost.
Captain Henry Leonhaeuser, with a
battalion of the Twenty-fifth infantry,
is on his way from Bamban to O'Don-
nell to take the insurgent cartridge
filling works there. A Filipino cap
tain who surrendered with four men to
Colonel Andrew S. Burt, of the TWEEN
ty-tifth infantry, described the fac
tory and volunteered to guide the ex-
petition.
The governor of Nueva Vizcapa has
determined, like many other Filipinos
in these days, hat the administration
of his province cannot change too
quickly and is coming to Manila to
tell Major General Otis of his loyalty,
n incidentally request that he be re-
tanned in office under the new regime.
Admiral Watson has received an ad-
ditional credible report that Lieuten-
ant j. G. and five of the cap
tured sailors of the United States gun
boat YnIktONVn were AT T9rl9c NOVPm-
Der LIST. Lieutenant Gilmore was liv-
ing in a Filipino generals house.
The United States cruiser Baltimore
starts for Lingayen today, and Adj
miral Watson to send anOth-
er ship to Natiguin if the gunboat He
lena, which is overdue, has not return
ed to Lingayen.
SAILORS OCCUPY ZAMBOANGA.
Sailors from the gunboat Castine oc-
cupy Zamboanga, on the southwest ex-
tremity of the island of Mindanao. The
business men, chiefly Chinese, request
ed Commander S. w. Very, of the Cas-
tine, to take possession of the place and
protect them from the insurgents.
Commander Very landed a naval
force and although no details have been
received, it appears he found he a
a large contract on hand and teie-
graphed to Major General Otis request
ing the presence of troops. But none
are available except by withdrawing
part of the force from one CT the neigh
boring islands temporarily. -
The original plan was to have Brig
adler General Alfred E. Bates establish
the headquarters of the governorshlp
of the Mahommedan islands there,
when the new regiments arrived. IL
will be carried out, later, When General
Bates returns from his trip to the
southern islands. He has been visit
ing the garrisons of Jolo, Siassi n
BongaO.
The ~friendliness of the Moras for the
Americans is increasing under General
Bates diplomatic administration. The
threatened feudS of the Datohs, ia
kainins and Calois against the sultan
will probably be averted through the
pacific influence of the American Off
GERS.
Mindanao villagers have seized a
smuggling schooner bound from Iloilo
to Zamboanga, and supposed to be run
bv two discharged soldiers. They MUIR