The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-31
AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE
FILIPIEOS RESISTING DESPER.
ATELY AT ALL POINTS.
INSURGENT CAPITAL Is REMOVED.
fer Under Intense Heat But Are 4,
In Good Conditi6S $3.50 x !.

olspatcn TO tne New xOrk &oQ$-
nal, dated Manila, "Wednesday, seyS
that Bocave was taken by onr tf66pe
during the morning. The rAilro4i
bridge is uniniured. At the time the,
dispatch was sent General MacArthur
was within eight miles of Malolos, the
Filipino capital.
Capital Reported Moved.
A dispatch under the same date, to
the New York Herald from Manila
says the insurgent capital has been
moved from Malolos to San Fernando.
The insurgents burned Bulscans
Tuesday afternoon. The monitor
Monadnock shelled Los Pinas south
of Manila Tuesday noon.
Advices received at Washington
state that the engineers under General
Macarthur are repairing bridges, the,
rebels having failed to destroy ta6s
iron works and the railroad is Kept
busy hurrying supplies to the front.
The country around Malolos is level
with occasional streams and patches
of wood, but there are no more jun
giles.
The American reports show that
twenty men were killed and sixty-one
wounded on our side Monday. The
Dakota regiment lost ten men killed
and thirty-seven wounded.
According to prisoners in the hands
of the Americans, Aguinaldo's gener-
ol
with the Filipino army Monday and
drove their followers into the first
aggressive demonstration. The rebels
attempted to charge across the plain
east of the railroad, but the Americans
charged e peet them ab03d and the EIrnss
eral men killed on the field.
The Filipino prisoners further de-
clare that the rebels have lost all taste
for fighting and their officers have to
keep them in line by beating them
with swords.
One of the most brilliant and costly
achievements of the campaign was the
charge of Major Howard's battalion
across the river. Advancing at the
double quick, they found the river be-
meath them and splashed across with
yell, swimming and wading, with bull
let spattering in the water. and rushed
up on the trenches. Ten men were
killed and eleven were wounded in the
charge.
Our troops captured four Spaniards
who were fighting with the insurgents.
General Macarthur was under a
heavy fire Tuesday.
declared that if the Americans can
take the Filipino capital he will sur
render.
General MacArthur's men are tired,
but are III splendid spirits. The heat
is intense, being 90 degrees on the
coast and fully 100 degrees in the in
terror and the Americans suffer a great
deal. In spite of the heat, however,
every man is eager to proceed toward
the enemy.
A detachment of ninety-six Filipino
prisoners was escorted into Manila
Tuesday. Their appearance aroused
great interest as they were marched
from the railroad depot to the prison.
The rebels have unloaded about 500
men from q train half mile in front
VI \tHcIuI 4huSfhI tulll loICeS Will
the object of reinforcing the Filipino
garrisons at Bulcacan and Guiguinto
on either side of the railroad leading
to Malolos.
The fact that the railroad is in op-
Grafton to our front facilitates the
transportation of supplies to the troops.
War department officials have re-
ferred to the disposition with which
the insurgents were fighting. 1t was
taken as an indication that they had
staked everything on the outcome of
this fight, and losing it, they would
submit rather than prolong hopeless
struggle. In this view the ferceness
of the rebel fighting was taken as an
evidence that "once whipped they
will stay whipped"