The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-15
SMASHED THEM.
Lawt0n's Triumph In Cavite
Was Complete.
Insurgents Lost Over One-third
of Their Army.
1000 MEN ENGAGED.
Those Who Escaped the Ameri-
cans Are Scattered.
Three Out of Five Cannon Fall
Into Our Hands.

Washington, June 15.-Gen. Otis ca
b1ed today the following:
Manila, June 15-Adjutant General,
ashington.-Success Lawton's troops
Cavite province greater than reported
yesterday. Enemy numbering over A.
600 lost in killed, wounded and captur-
ed more than one-third; remainder
much scattered, have retreated south
to linus. their arsenal; of five pieces OF
artillery, three captured. Navy aided
greatly on shore bay, landing forces oc-
casionally. Inhabitants in that coun-
try rejoice at deliverance and welcome
with enthusiastic demonstrations ar
rival of our troops OTIS.
MORE TROOPS FOR CEBU.
Washington, June 15.-The war de-
partment bulletins the following:
Manila, June 15-Adjutant General.
Washington. - Prominent Filipino,
friendly 10 Americans, assasSinated at
Cebu. Inhabitants in that locality ur-
gently requested American protection
in stronger force. Have sent battalion
Tennessee and two guns from Iloilo,
which insures peace. Hughes now in
~ - - ~ OTIS.
LAWTON REINFORCED.
Manila, June 15.-Noon.-The fourth
regular infantry and the Wyoming regi-
ment have been added to General Law
toms command and today they were
tOwed across the bay in caScOeS to Las
Pinas, preparatory to removing to
linus, five miles inland where the
rebels are reported to have an arsenal
and a large quantity of supplies.
SPANIARDS JOIN AMERICANS.
Manila, June 15.-5:5O D. m.-Captain
Gable of General Wheaton's staff, with
three companies of the Twenty-hrst
regiment, reconnoitered in the direction
of linus. The rebels, who were ap-
parently expecting an attack, retired,
leaving behind them twenty Spanish
prisoners, who Joined the Americans.
The rebels have probably gone to the
mountains along the lake.
According to native stories the rebels
carried 100 dead and 300 wounded
through Bacoor after the recent battle.
The natives are now flooding into
Bacoor and it is probable there are
many soldiers in plain clothes among
them.
The whole section is practically with
out food and Major General Otis has
ordered the distribution of rice and beef
to the inhabitants. Many people still
refuse to credit the stories of the as
sassination of Gen. Luna by the guard
at Aguinaldos headquarters. Though
the reports to that effect are most cir
cumstantial and from good sources the
rumors of assassinations and disasters
from the rebel camp so frequently
printed in the local papers that they
have come to be regarded with indiffer-
ence. The latest is that the governor
of Cebu has been killed by natives be-
cause of his friendship to Americans. A
prominent commercial man with ex-
ceptfonal means of learning of the Fill
pinos' movements claims to know Gen.
Luna is still alive, adding that if he is
dead, and if his death occurred a month
ago, people would have expected a COL
lapse of the revolution to follow.
The failure of the Filipinos to follow
up the peace negotiations strengthens
the impression that their overtures were
merely to gain time and in order to lure
the Americans to show their hands.
The Independencia, a revolutionary
organ, of May 20, a copy of which has
just been obtained, prints an interview
with Gen. Luna showing the arguments
he used to keep up the spirits of his
followers. He represents the Filipino
cause as prospering, because the Aneri-
cans have gained only hundredth part
of Luzon by hard fighting, and says
the women and children tilling the
fields within the American lines give the
proceeds of their work in support of the
Filipino army. He is said to have fur
ther remarked: More Americans will
be killed by ambuscades, surprises and
disease than in battle.
Il detest war but we can not accept
peace at any price but independence.
The Americans suffered for their own
independence and in their hearts they
appreciate why we resist them"