The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-10
WITH A RUSH.
WheatOn's Men Drive Back the
Enemy at Dagupan.
FiIipinos Rise Out of the Sand
and Fire
DURING THE LANDING.
Americans We're Moving East
ward at Last Accounts.
Insurgents on the Offensive at
Balinag.

Manila. Nov 100 a. m.-Gen.
Wheaton's expedition arrived off San
Fabian Monday night. but the surf was
too high to permit the landing of the
troops in small boats On Tuesday
morning the expedition approached
Lingayan, a suburb of Dagupan, which
has a sheltered harbor with high sand
dunes, stretching from the water to the
town. The Bennington, Helena Man
lila, CalIaO and Samar shelled the town
and beach for an hour with the full
strength of their batteries, but there
was no response, nor was there visible
landed in boats, five steam launches
each towing four boats. When these
approached the shore and the troops
began to land, a long line OF insurgents
rose from the sand and poured a heavy
volley over the heads of the soldiers,
following this with a rapid fusinade.
The insurgents were excited and fired
high, few of their bullets striking the
boats. Two men, however, were
wounded.
The companies were fOrp'ed and or
dercd to lie down in the sand. They
gave the insurgents few VOlleys and
then charged, driving the enemy with a
rush. The FiipinOs had lam behind
the dunes during the bOmbar4ment, the
shells ploughing through the sand and
doing them little, if any damage
The gunbOat Manila brought the news
that when she left, Gen Wheaton, with
his entire force of :, 700 men was march
ing eastward, leaving DaguDan.
The battleship Oregon, which had
been ordered from Hong KOT g to Dagu-
pan, had not arrived at the latter place
when the Manila sailed.
Gen. Young with his cavalry took
San Jose on Wednesday. a small in
surgent force stationed there retreated-
The troops We're ferried across the
river to Cabanatuan on a raft During
the passage an accident occurred dur
ing which a private was drowned.
An attack has been made by the in
surgents on Balinag, the rebels firing
into the town for three hours but doing
no damage.
The insurgents held a celebration at
Tarlac on October % in honor of the
anti-inp perialiStS- The demonstration
included a procession, religious services
and speeches by Aguinaldo and other
officials.
The Independence in an editorial ar
ticle eulogiztng Mr.. w J. Bryan, says:
Mr. Bryan should be pictured in Fill
pinO history with equal glory with DR..
Rial Rial, Bryan and AguinaldO
are the glorious trinity of our political
redemption
Gen. Otis and the Spanish and the
British consuls have made arrange
ments in accordance with which the
British cruiser Peacock is to take 10000
ratiOns and clothing to the Spanish
prisoners in the Albay and Camarines
provinces.
WATsONs REPORT.
Washington, Nov. 1O-AdmiraI Wat
son has cabIed the navy department
the. following account of the part play
ed by the navy in the landing made by
General Wheaton on Lingayen gulf, in
pursuit of the plan to surround Agui-
naldO's forces:
Manila, Nov. 9.-Tuesday afternoon
Knox, with the Princeton. Bennington,
Helena, Manila. Callao and Samar, bonn
barded entrenched beach at San Fabian,
Lingayen; landed Wheaton's command.
Mole was in charge of the boats. Nc
Name, Reynolds and Nelson assisting.
Snow, commanding the Baltimore sec
ton, was beach master Disseminating
and landing under rife fire, admiral BILE;
no casualties CalIaO, Tappan, Samar.
Muslin, specially commended. Samar
struck several times"
The last line is supposed to state the
names of the men specially commended
and the boats to which they are at
tached.
The war department has definitely To-
Gated AguinaldO as on his way to the
town of Boambang, about IS miles
northeast of Tarlac. The recent calcu-
latiOns have been that the insurgent
leader was at the town of Bayambang.
not far from Tarlac, in which case the
several forces under Generals Mac
Arthur LawtOn, Young and Wheaton
would have had him practically sur
rounded There has been some doubt
however, as to the name of Bayambang
and this was cleared UP by definite in
formation fixing BOam mbang instead of
Bayambang. as the place of Aguinal-
dos refugee. A dispatch from General
Otis mentioned BOambang and at the
same time reliable information came
through other channels that Lieutenant
Gilmore and other American prisoners
were at Boam bang in the mountains
far to the northeast of TaTlac.
It is expected that the insurgent cap
ital Will be shifted to Boam-
bang and the efforts of the
American military forces viii be
directed toward that point it
is in the mountainous country of the
north and apparently out of the fertile
and populOus regions where AguinaldO
thus far has conducted his operations.
1t is said to be accessible from the
south by only one route. along a river
which is a branch of the Rio Grande.
This leaves the rebel leader little or no
opportunity of communication with the
coast or getting in supplies. He has
also left the railroad behind.
It is said at the war department that
the columns of General Young and Cen
erat Wheaton Will push on to the north,
following up the insurgent leader and
his scattered bands
Washington, Nov 10.-The War de-
partment has received the following:
Manila, Nov. 10.-Gen- LawtOn ex-
periences some difficulties on account
of continued unprecedented rains in
that section of the country His ad-
vance at San Jose yesterday, at Car
ranglan today; strong force put through
on AligOa route: Young captured yes
terday considerable additional Cabana-
tuan arsenal property in transit north.
among which one had II twO-inch and
% boxes one and One-Sixty-five hun
drethS-inch ammunition for HOtchkfss
guns; so prOjectiles for five and eight
inch breech-loading rife cannon, two
boxes Of Granadas, considerable other
ordnance property and two tons cast
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