Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-04-22
VOLUNTEERS Return SOON.
STATEMENT BY GENERAL OTIS.
They Will Come Home Next Month";
Scarcity of Transports Might Delay
General Lawton Has Returned to Man =
ila-Rebels Claim "a Capture.

Manila, April l9.--Lawton returned
from the lake country on the 18th inst,
bringing captured vessels. Insurgents are
much scattered and retreat before our
forces awaiting opportunity TO attack de-
tachments. The better class of people are
tired of war and desire peace. The enemy
build hopes on the return of our voluntee >
TO the United States. Its army is much
demoraliZed and the loss by desertion is
large. 1t will probably prosecute guer-
lila warfare. looting and burning the coun-
try which it occupied.
The health and spirits of the troops are
good. The volunteers return will COM
mence about May 5. Will render willing
service until the return transports are
available. Embarkation will continue
through June and July.
Reports from the Viscayan islands con
tinue very encouraging, The inter island
commerce is heavy, and customs receipts
increasing OTIS.
4 Filipino Fairy Tale.
London, April lS.--The Filipino Euro
pean junta claims to have received a ca
blegram from General Luna, command
ing the Manila district, direct from Ma
Mia ON Friday, declaring that General
Iawton, whose object was to proceed to
Baler and effect junction with the York.
town was inveigled by Filipino tactics
to 'perilously extending his line with the
result that column consisting of l40
officers and men, on reaching place called
Binangonam, was ambushed by a large
Filipino force, communication with the
main force was severed and the entire
column was captured"
Filipino advices further assert that
Lawton, who was at Iaguna De Bay, on
hearing the news, retired TO Manila,
stating that he had been recalled by Otis
on the ground that native rising in Ma
Mia was imminent"
The foregoing is said to be a separate
affair from the disappearance of the
boats crew of the Yorktown in the vicin-
ity of Baler.
The YOrEtOwn's Loss.
Manila, April l9.-4:3O p. m.-Admiral
Dewey has been notified of the strange dis
appearance of Lieutenant j. c. Gilmore
and Ia members of the crew of the United
States gunboat Yorktown.
On Saturday last the Yorktown an
chored off Baler on the east coast of Luzon
and about 200 miles from here, where
there was a Spanish garrison of about 80
men, which has been defending itself
against several hundred Filipinos for
months past.
Lieutenant Gilmore Ensign W. II. Stan
ly and boats crew were sent up the
river from Baler bay to communicate with
the Spaniards, the town of Baler being sit
uated some distance inland. Ensign Stan
ly, who landed at the mouth of the river,
reports he heard three voleys, II bugle
call and cheers up the river, but the auto
matte gun, which was part of the equip
ment of the boat, was not heard firing
Stanly then padded to the Yorktown in a
canoe
A search was made for the Yorktown's
boat and her crew, but no trace of them
was found, and the Yorktown sailed for
Iloilo, from which place her comma nder
cabled to Admira! Dewey his theory that
the Filipinos had captured or sunk the
boat or that the Spaniards have rescued
the American party.
Brigadier General King, who has been
taken suddenly i'll and who is unable to
continue in command of his brigade, has
been relieved of further duty and has
been ordered to return to the United
States on the first transport sailing from
here.