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GEN. sCHwAN'S COLUMN ABANDONs
THE TOWNS TAKEN.


Movement II Fine Display of Gem
eralShip-Filipinos showed Activ-
ity In Decamplng-Phcir Guise or
Friendship Has Mischief BnclS OF
lt-WOmen and Children Rave a
Hard Time as Non-Combntants.
Manila, oct l2, 1870 p m.-Gsn
schwan's expedition having accomplish
its object, The troops are all returning to
their former positions. abaudohiug the
towns taken.
Gen. Schwan is en- route from Perez das
Marinas to linus with the infantry while
the artillery and cavalry and all mule
teams are retracing their route Grom NAL
abon to Bacoor, with the signal corps re-
moving the wires. Gen. Trias, with the
organized bodies of insurgents, retreated 70
Slang and Indang at the base of the
mountain. The movement of the United
States troops was a fine display Of Amerl-
can generalship and energy while the Fill
ipinos adopted what Gen. Alejandrno
terms "Our peculiar method Of warfare"
The whole country is an immense swamp
and the Filipinos never expected that The
Americans could or would attempt to in
wade 1t during the wet season. Moreover,
the line of march furnished a succession
of surprises, the advancing troops being
generally attacked from unexpected points.
In Cavite province the scene of the hot
test fights and their greatest successes
over The Spaniards, the Filipinos might
have been expected to make a resoute
stand, If anywhere, but after their whip.
pings at Cavlte, Niejo and Noveleta, their
tactics consisted chiefly in a continuous
exhibition of agility and transformation
from warriors TO amigos.
The Americans. while reconnoitering
about the scenes Of Sundays encounter.
found that the trenches have already been
reoccupied although the enemy manifested
more than their usual willingness to re-
treat before the Americans. Armed bands
have reappeared along the shore road be-
tween Bacoor and Rosario, and the troops
returning by that route exrect another
fight at Rosario.
At Malabon the Americans corraled two
or three hundred natives supposed to be
fighting men. A few of them were caught
bers were found in hiding dressed in khaki,
like the American uniform. A majority of
them were in the garb of amigos. but
they are suspected Of shooting at the
troops from houses. growing habit.
which fiourished throughout the advance
whenever small parties of Americans
strayed from the main body
Prisoners white Elephant.
The prisoners are a white elephant on
the hands of the Americans. The Mala-
bon contingent spent an unhappy night
incareerated in a church A native priest
and an uncle of Gen. Trias were diseov-
cred in the Filipino arsenal outside the
town. They are credited with being two
of the pillars of the insurrecton but they
vigorously proclaim their innocence.
The leading citizens Of Rosario are tenn
porar.ly engaged in towing fleet of ca
noes laden with the American armYs i'm
pedimenta at Bacoor. The prisoners. with
the exception Of those caught ed-handed.
will be returned, as owing to the fact thar
the insurgents have so many more men
than guns the keeping of prisoners is a
useless expense unless the policy Of recon
entration which Gen. Weyler pursued is
to be adopted.
In conversation with an Associated
Press representative a leading merchant at
Rosario remarked "Fhey will all be en-
gagged in their old business as soon as re-
leased"
When asked where the army had gone
the merchant replied: "A majority Of
them are here. They simply hid their
guns when they saw a superior force ap-
proaching."
The fighting fails the hardest on the wo-
men and children. Hundreds of them
spent the night before the Americans
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 fhe commissary and quar-
termaster departments, directed by Capts
Biddle and Horton, was remarkable
throughout. The transportation of sup
plies from Rosario 70 Malabon seemed TO
he Impossible. The wagons had to be re-
peatedy unloaded and reloaded while be-
ing dragged through the mlre. Gen
Schwan is marching back without the
loaded teams, all baggage being shipped
from Baccoor by canoes and the wagons
going empty.
A telegraph SQUAD. under Lieut.. Clark
kept the wire abreast Of the line to Mala-
bon, but in order TO do this the teams had
10 be abandoned and the wire carried by
coolies