The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-11
Insurgents Fire The City and
then Flee.
INSURGENT BACKBONE BROKEN
Rebel Army In Full Retreat-Diffi-
Guilty Of Locating Them
Sharp Cavalry Skirmish.

MANILA, March 81, noon-Major-
General Macarthur entered Maiolos,
the seat of the so-called insurgent gov
ernment, at $3.50 O'Clock this morning
the rebels burning the city and stimuli
taneously evacuating it. They are now
in full retreat toward the north, where
Aguinaldo and the Cabinet have been
for two days.
Major-General Macarthur advanced
to attack Malolos at o'clock this
morning. He was met with strong
opposition, the rebels resisting des-
perately, but losing heavily. General
Halls brigade is advanced north from
the water works and driving the left
wing of the enemy across.
| The United States troops rested last
night in the jungle about a mile and
a quarter from Malolos. The days
advance began at O'Clock and cover
ed a distance of about two and a
half miles beyond the Guiguinto river,
along the railroad. The brunt of the
battle was on the right of the track,
where the enemy was apparently con-
lcentrated.
The First Nebraska, First South Da-
kota and Tenth Pennsylvania Regi-
ments encountered them intrenched on
the border of the woods and the Amer
leans advancing across the open suffer
ed a terrific fire for half an hour.
Four men of the Nebraska Regiment
were killed and thirty were wounded.
Ten men of the Dakota Regiment were
wounded, and one of the Pennsylva
MAS was killed. The Americans final
ly drove the F'ilipinos back. Although
there were three lines of strong in
trenchments along the track the enemy
made scarcely any defense there.
General Macarthur and his staff were
walking ON the track abreast of the
line with everything quiet, when sud-
denly they received a shower of bull
lets from sharpshooters in trees and on
house tops, but these were speedily
dislodged.
The enemy's loss was apparently
small, the jungle affording them such
protection that the Americans Were
unable to see them, and in firing were
guided only by the sound of the Fill
pinos' shots. The American artillery
was handicapped for the same reason.
Last nights long line of camp fires
made beautiful sight, with the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment on the
left of Guiguinto station and the Penn
sylvania Regiment on the right, be-
yond the river.
The provision train was delayed by
broken bridges, but the stores Of grain
and f1ocks of ducks in the locality fur
nished ample forage. The hospital
work is remarkably efficient, as it has
been throughout the whole campaign.
The telegraphers keep abreast of the
line and maintain a constant connec
ton with the city.
MANILA, April 2, $50 p. m.-The
American troops under General Mac
Arthur are still resting at Maloos,
where everything has been quiet to-
day. Hostilities eIsewhere-so far as
officially reported-have been limited
during the last twenty-four hours to
an occasional exchange Of shots be-
tween the insurgents and troops form
ing the lines of General Lawton and
General Hall, extending from the water
works to La Lonia. But this shooting
has been just active enough to make
the lives of the soldiers a burden and
TO compel the officers to sleep in