The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-13
TROOPS ARE RETURNING
Schwan's Men Back in Their
Former Positions.
DISPLAYED THEIR ENERGY
Operated in an Immense Swanp-Troops
We're Attacked at Unexpected
Points-Insurgents Rsoc-
cupy the Trenches.

Manila, Oct. Il. 11:20 p. m.-General
Schwan's expedition, having accom-
plished it's object, the troops are all ,e-
turning to their former positions, aban-
doning the towns taken.
General Schwan is en- route from Per
ez de Marinas to linus with the infan-
try, while the artillery and cavalry and
all mule teams are retracing their route
from Malabon to Bacoor, with the sig
nal corps removing the wires. General
Trias, with the organized bodies Of ir-
sursents, retreated to Slang and In
dang, at tho base of the mountain.
The movement ef the United States
troops was fane display OF American
seneralship and energy, while the Fill
pinos adopted what General Alejandri-
no terms 'our peculiar method Of war
fare"
The whole country is an immense
swamp and the Filipinos never expect
ed that the Americans could or would
| attempt to invade it during the wet
season. Moreover, the line of march
furnished succession of surprises the
advancing troops being generally at
tackled from unexpected points.
In Cavite province, the scene of the
hottest fights and their great successes
over the Spaniards, the F'ilipinos might
have been expected to make a resolute
stand. If anywhere, but after their
Whippings at Cavite Fiejo and Novele-
ia, their tactics consisted chiefly in a
continuous exhibition of their agility
and their transformation from war
riors to amigos.
The marines while -reconnoiterng
about the scene of Sundays encounter.
find that the trenches have been al
ready reoccunied, although the enemy
manifested more than their usual will
ingness to retreat before the Americans,
Bands have appeared along the shore
road between Bacoor and Rosario and
the troops returning by that route ex
pect another fight at Rosario.
At Mllabon the Americans corraled
two or three hundred natives supposed
to be fighting men. A few of them
were caught with arms in their hands,
but large numbers were found in hid
ing dressed in khaki like the American
uniform. A majority of them were in
the gasb of amigos. but they are sus-
pected Of shooting at the troops from
houses, a growing habit which four
ished throughout the advance whenever
small parties of Americans strayed
from the main body. TIs prisoners are
Americans. The Malabon contingent
spent an unhappy night incarcerated in
q church.
The leading citizens of Rosario are
temporarily engaged in towing q fleet
of canoes laden with the American
army's impedimenta at Bacoor. The
prisoners with the exception of those
caught red-handed. will be released. as.
owing to the fact that the insurgents
have so many more men than guns,
the keeping Of prisoners Is a useless
expense unless the policy Of reconcen-
tration which General Weyler pursued
is to be adopted.
In conversation with an associated
press representative, a leading n1er-
chant of Rosario remarked:
They will all be engaged in their old
business as soon as released
When asked where the army had
gone, the merchant replied:
"A majority of them are here. They
simply hide their guns when they see
a superior force approaching"
The fighting falls the hardest on the
women and children. Hundreds of
them spent the night before the Amer
icens reached Rosario in boats. the bay
for miles being crowded with small
craft containing non-combatants, few
of whom remained in the town.
The work Of the commissary and the
quartermaster's departments, directed
by Captains Biddle and Horton. was
remarkable throughout. The transpor-
talon Of supplies from Rosario to NAL
abon seemed to be impossible. Thu
wagons had to be repeatedly unloadel
and reloaded while being dragged
through the mire.
General Schwan is marching back
without the teams. all the loads of bay
gage being shipped from Bacoor by
canoes and wagons going empty.
A telegrsphtc squad under Lieuten-
ant Clark kept the wire abreast of the
line to Malabon, but in order to do
this the teams had to be abandoned
and the wire carried by coolies.