The record-union., 1899-12-12
General Grants Advance Guard, Un-
der Command Of Major Spence,
Occupies the Town With Little Resistance,
the Eaemy Fleeing.
General Young Still in Pursuit Of
Command Reduced One-Third
by Sickness. and His Infantry
Shoeless and All Living on the
Country.

Shoeless and All Living on the
Country.
MANILA, Dec 1.-THE advance
guard of General Grants command,
under Major Spence, arrived at Olan-
gapo, Subig Bay, during the night of
Saturday, December 9th, which place
was occupied with little resistance, the
enemy fleeing. Major Spence had an
arduous march over the mounta n trails
from Dinalupihian.
Yesterday morning the Baltimore and
Oregon and a chartered transport ar
rived at Olangapo from Manila. The
navy was disappointed to find the army
in possession of the place, which they
had hoped to capture. A detachment of
marines, under Captain Myers, occu-
pied the navy yard at Olangapo, and
will hold and occupy it as a naval sta
ton. The yard consists of seven large
new buildings and some repairing and
machinery shops, all damaged by the
bombardment of September 23d.
During the morning Of September 10th
the navy transported Major Spence's
command from Olangapo to the town of
Subig, five miles distant. The enemy
was seen deserving Subig as the troops
landed, and the latter occupied it with
out resistance. They found the place
abandoned by the retreating enemy,
who fired a few shots. The Americans
deployed to the right and left of the
town, and killed one Of the enemy
General Grant and the remainder of
his command arrived at Olangapo yes
terday afternoon. He will proceed to-
day to Subig and joint Major Spence.
General Grant will move north along
the coast. and will effect a juncture
with the, Twenty-fifth Infantry under
Colonel Burt, who was reported eight
miles from Iba on December It'll. The
enemy encountered in General Grants
advance fed to the mountains and scat
tered. General Grant is not garrisoning
the towns he occupies. No casualties
are reported in his command.
Dispatches dated Conception Deem
Der I'd from a correspondent of the AS
ISOLATED Press with, the detachment
pursuing Aguinaldo, have just reached
Manila by messenger. The military
wires on all lines to the northward are
continuously cut by the natives, or are
crowded with Government business
when working.
According to these advices. General
Young was at Condor November 10Th,
having three troops of the Third Cav
airy, Cunningham's scouts and Major
March's battalion of the Thirty-third
Infantry. The nominal strength of his
command has been reduced one-third
by sickness. The horses were worn out
and handicapped by lack of shoes. The
infantry, after a march of a hundred
miles from San Jacinto, We're shoaless,
and all were living on the country.
The troops had no ammunition except
what they carried in their belts.
General Young having then been
without communication with General
Lawton for ten days, and not know
ing the disposition of the other troops
or whether support was being sent
forward, resolved to keep moving. Hav-
ing received information that the in
surgent General Tino, with thousand
men, was somewhere to the north, and
that Aguinaldo, with General Pillar, five
women and 400 soldiers Of his faithful
Bulacan Battalion, was in the noun
cided, on November 3Oth, to divide his
force. He proceeded himself toward
Vigan, hoping to attack Tino with his
handful of men and to prevent him
joining Aguinaldo. Major March, with
his battalion and Cunningham's scouts
started over the mountains toward Ger
vantes after Aguinaldo, who was re-
ported to have been there ON November
Doth. This column marched for thirteen
hours without food.
LAYTON OCCUPIES SAN MIGUEL
MANILA, Dec. II, $3.50 a. m-Gen-
eral Lawton, with the Thirty-fift In
fantry and four troops of the Fourth
Cavalry, has occupied San Miguel with
out a fight.
The insurgent commander General
Pho del Pillar, who made his headquar
ters with the supposedly largest force
of insurgents north of Manila, is be-
lieved to have divided his men into
scattered bands. The inhabitants have
petitioned for a strong garrison.
Colonel Hayes, with cavalry, had two
brushes with the insurgents, the Amer
leans having two wounded.
Seventy insurgents attacked a COM
n1issary bull train returning from Capas
to Tarlac. The drivers escaped with
the loss of their rationS and effects.
Captain Sturgis, with a troop of the
Eleventh Cavalry, surprised forty in
surgents under General Pando near
Norzargaray. The insurgents had a
Major and two privates killed, a Lieu
tenan and three privates wounded and
a Tiautenant and fourteen men with
twenty-one rifles, captured.
The Associated Press correspondent
goes on to say:
1.-The Americans found that the in
surgents had impressed the Igorrotes,
compelling them to dig trenches and to
construct pitfalls along the trails,
which were fearful travelling at the
best. One stream had to be fordad
twelve times in the course of a mile.
These inoffensive, stupid creatures,
usually pictured as blood thirsty saw
ages cheerfuly returned to undo their
work, and actually went foraging for
the Americans
"The Ilocos region is the richest the
Americans have encountered in the
northern campaign. The Ilocos are
prosperous, intelligent and more than
half civilized. They have excellent
houses, and carry on fourishing indus