Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-07
fi|ipinos Shoot Better Than Did
the Spaniards.
sHELLED AMERICAN CAMP
Their Style of Warfare is Thinning
Our K"nk--rwo Hundred or our
Soldiers Fail from Exhausti0n on
March 10 worong-N Regular
Battles 10 Bo Fought Fiiipinos
Play Trick,
(By Telegraph to virginian-Pilot.)


Manila. June Clio p. m.-The rebels
on Saturday night made an attack upon
the friendly town of Macabebe and,
after driving the inhabitants out, burn
cd the town.
The insurgents nightly annoy the
troops ut San Fernando Several Amer
leans have been slightly wounded re-
Gently. The enemy have several krupp
guns. which they bring forward and
use Tor firing large shells into the town,
then rctreating with their guns. One of
the insurgent shells fell-within thirty
yards of General MacArthur's hear
quarters Saturday evening. The Amer-
can troops do not reply 10 the nightly
outbreaks.
ESCAPE OF FILIPINOS.
Manila. June $3.50 p. m--The Amer
lean forces have occupied the peninsula
and General Halls column is encamped
at MorOng. NJ jor Truman, marching
across from Dlnangonan. found ii i'm
practicable to form a Gordon; and The
insurgents, with the exception of II
hundred or two escaped through the
mountains after General Pho del Pillar.
draGink their battery by bunalocs ut
night. \ few. however, may be trapped.
The Washington troops have return
ed to pasig, but the program of the
other troops is uncertain.
The present expedition shows the
difficulty which is encountered by an
amy which must depend upon wagon
trains in catching bare-footed bandits
In their own mountains. and also gives
prccf that the rebels do not intend to
fight battles.
A FATIGUINCl MARCH.
General Hall LEFT Santa Teresa yes
tSroay morning and marched twelve
miles to Morong. up and down rocky
hills and through woods and sWamps.
scores OF his men fell out owing to the
extreme heat and We're left To follow as
best they could The head of the
army arrived AT Morong at noon, hav-
ing exchanged only a few shots with
lnsurEent skirmishers on the way.
Groups of strasslers followed all day
bu; the force Was 200 smaller than
when il started. The men were almost
- hours without rltions. and it was
co1sice rable of an achievement for
them 10 cover the ground they did.
En- route 10 Morong the Americans
ret hncis Of f'iiip!nos. under flags Of
tucc. many Of them young men with
re bearlns Of soldiers. Many discard
Ell a., FERNS were found in the houses,
gIr3re.tly those OF soldiers who had
escaped by changing their costumes
firm 'lHsurrecto" TO amigo" and
Walking Boldly past the army. which
.1d expected TO corral them. Few were
found about Morong
ONE KILLED, TWO WOUNDED.
One member OF the Washiu;.tnn- Rnci-
iacni was killed and two were wound
cd in the encounter with the outposts
General Lawton. on beard a sunboat
searching the coast for Major Truman,
stopped at Bnangonan, opposite Mo-
IpnS. me natives Immediately ran up
n flag of truce and delegation in ca
noes put OFF and greeted the Americans
with the usual protcstations of friend
ship
y LIEUTENANT SUICIDES.
Manila. June ITO a. m.-Linuton-
ant Fred w. Pearce. of the Sixth II. s
Artillery, committed suicide here This
morning. He came from lloilo q weel,
ago on leave, but fingered here beyond
the limit and failed to reply to repeated
kilograms from his commander
Yesterday he was put under arrest on
his commanders order. This morning
another officer called to see him. When
he suddenly pulled revolver from I'M
der his pillow and shot himself through
the head.
His friends say his mind was affect
ed by recent sunstroke.
spanish paper asserts that Colonel
ArSuellcs, one of the two members of
the original Filipino Military Commits
sion. who were placed under arrest n I
Tarlac last month. after returned 10
Luna's camp from their conferences
with the United States Commissioners
has been court-martialed and sentenced
to twelve years imprisonment for