The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
SANTA Cruz TAKEN.
rRv canla 10 The Associated Press.

BY Gable to Ihe Associated JresS.1
MANILA, April 10, 1S99.-6:50 P. NJ
General LawtoD has captured Santa
Cruz, at the extreme end of the Lake.
He drove the rebels who were commanded
by Chnaman name Pac-Wahr into the
mountains The Americans had six men
wounded. The rebels lost sixty-eight men
killed and forty men wounded.
The rebels along the railroad fired at a
scouting party near Malolos today,
wounding two members of the Kansas
Regiment
The United tSates gunboat Bennington
has gone to Baler, on the east coast, in
order to relieve a Spanish garrison of for
ty-seven men which has been beleaguered
there since May.
1t is considered significant that the
''Oceania Espanola," formerly rabidly in
favor of the Filipino Government. is now
counselling disarmament, advising the
Filipinos to accept the inevitable. 1t has
carefully analyzed the proclamation of
the United States Philippine Commission,
pointing out the advantages of the
definite policy determined upon.
An expedition consisting of about 1,500
men. commanded by Maor General Henry
w. Lawton, left San Pedro Macati, on
the liver Pasig, on Saturday night, with
the object of crossing Laguna de Bay
and capturing the town of Santa CrCuz,
on the eastern shore of the lake. The
American troops were then to sweep the
country to the south. The force consist
ed of 200 picked sharpshooters from the
various regiments, Hawthorne Mountain
Battery, Gales Squadron and three
Troops of the Fourth Cavalry, unmount-
ed; Bronke's and Tappen's Battalions of
the Fourteenth Infantry, Linck's Battal-
ion of the First Idaho Infantry and
FRAMES Battalion of the First North Da-
kota Infantry, under General King.
The fiotilla of twenty canoes, towed by
tugs and conveyed by the gunboats La
guna de Bay, Oesto and Nappidan, and
preceded by the launch containing Gen
eral Lawton and General King, moved to-
ward the lake just as evening was setting
in. 1t was a truly picturesque scene.
The men were all in high spirits and
carried rations for ten days, with the
lightest marching equipment
General Lawton's plan was to reach
Santa Cruz on Sunday morning at day
break, to capture or destroy any rebel
gunboats or shipping, to take the
town, and then to scourge the
country to the south of the lake,
country not yet explored by
the Americans. The tactics were to be
those of the old time frontier fighting. and
it was thought probable that the COM
mand would be divided into squads of
twelve, under non-commissIoned officers.
In General Lawton's absence, the Second
Division was temporarily commanded by
General OOvenshine wnose lines extended
from the beach, near Malate, south Of
Manila, to the shore of Lasuua de Bay,
beyond Pasig, a distance of about seven
miles.
The withdrawal of the eighteen conpaa-
les constituting the expeditionary force,
made gap in the line from the beach to
CuiicuH just southwest of San Pedro
Maeati, wiaieh was subsequently filled by
the Fourth Regular Infantry. The rebels
on the extreme right, had evidently been
informed of the withdrawal of the troops
and they attempted to sneak through af-
ter nightfall, but they met with a wa.m
reception and fell back in disorder on dis
covering that the line was still intact.