Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-13
REBELSFLEE BEFORE YOUNG
They Burn the Town of Arayat Before They
Leave
Scattered Filipino Forces Gather In
Rear of Our Troops After
Fights.

| A dispatch from Manila, yesterday says
| Gen. Young, with two battalions Of the
| oath Infantry, nine troops Of the 4th Cav
| airy and the scouts Of the 37th Infantry.
left Santa Ana at o'clock this morning
| and occupied Arayat at o'clock, after q
skirmish lasting half an hour.
| The enemy, estimated at 900 men. retreat
| ed toward Magellan. The swampy charac-
| ter Of the country prevented the use OF cav
| airy. The men Of the 24th charged the
| trenches The enemy set the town on fire
! and succeeded in burning a small section.
| Five dead and three wounded Filipinos were
| left on the field. The Americans had one
wounded.
plished its object. the troops are all return
| ing to their former positions. abandoning
| the towns taken.
Gen. schwan is en- route from Perez das
Marinas to linus with the infantry, while
| the artillery and cavalry and all D,ule
tear1s are retracing their route from Mala-
bon to Bacoor, with the signal corps re-
moving the wires. Gen. Trtas, with the or
ganized bodies Of insurgents, retreated to
Slang and Indang, at the base OF rhe noun
tain.
From q Tactical Standpoint.
The movement of the United States
troops was fine display Of American gen.
eralship and energy, while the Fflipinos
adopted what Gen. Alejandrino terms 'our
peculiar method Of warfare"
The whole country is an immense swamp,
and the Fflipinos never expected that the
Americans could or would attempt TO in
wade 1t during the wet season. Moreover.
the line Of march furnished a succession Of
surprises the advancing troops being gen.
orally attacked from unexpected points.
In Cavite province, the scene of the hot
test fights and their greatest successes
over the Spanards, the Filipinos might
hoy heny tod TO rol- ,It,Sa
stand. If anywhere, but after their whip
pings at Cavite. Niejo and Noveleta, their
tactics consisted chiefly in a continuous ex
hibitiOn of their agility and their transfor-
nation from warriors to amigos.
The marines, while accommodating about
the scene of Sundays encounter, find that
the trenches have already been reoccuplcd,
although the enemy manifested more than
their usual Willingness to retreat before the
Americans. Armed bands have reappeareG
along the shore road between Bacoor and
Rosario, and the troops returning by that
route expect another fight at Rosario.
Prisoners Taken at Ma1abon.
At Malabon the Americans corralled two
or three hundred natives, supposed to be
fighting men A few of them were caught
with arms in their hands but large num-
bers were found in hiding dressed in khaki
like the American uniform. majority of
them were in the garb of amigos, but they
are suspected of shooting at the troops
ished throughout the advance whenever
small parties of Americans strayed from
the main body. The prisoners are white
elephant on the hands of the Americans.
The Ma1abon contingent spent an unhap
by night incarcerated in church. A ma
tive priest and an uncle of Gen. Trias were
discovered in the Filipino arsenal outside
the town. They are credited with being
two Of the pillars of the Instruction, but
very vigorously proclaim their innocence.
The leading citizens Of Rosario are tenn
porarily engaged in towing a fleet Of ca
noes laden with the American army's i'm
pedimenta at Bacoor.
The prisoners, with the exception of
those caught red-handed, will be return
ed, as, owing to the fact that the insur-
gents have so many more men than guns,
the keeping Of prisoners is a useless ex-
| pense, unless the policy Of reconcentra-
| ton which Gen. Weyler pursued is to be
adopted.
Simply Hid Their Guns.
In conversation with Associated Press
| representative a leading merchant Of Ro-
sario remarked: ''They will all be engage
| ed In their old business as soon as re-
| leased"
When asked where the army had gone
| the merchant replied: "a majority Of them
are here. They simply hid their guns when
| they saw a superior force approaching"
The fighting falls the hardest upon the
women and children. Hundreds of them
spent the night before the Americans
| reached Rosario in boats. the bay for miles
being crowded with small craft containing
| non -combatants, few of whom remained
/ in the town.
The work of the commissary and quar-
termasters departments, directed by Capts
Biddle and Horton, was remarka BILE
| throughout. The transportation Of sup
plies from Rosario to Malabon seemed
| to be impossible. The wagons had to be
repeatedly unoaded and reloaded while
| being dragged through the mire.
Gen. Schwan is marching back without
the teams, all the loads Of baggage be-
| ing shipped from Bacoor by canoes and
| the wagons going empty
| telegraph squad under Lieut.. Clark
| kept the wire abreast of the line to Mala-
| bon, but, in order to do this, the teams
| had to be abandoned and the wire car
| r1ed by coolies.