The Red Cloud chief., 1899-06-09
REBELS SLIPPED AWAY.
tawton Has Transferred Action to
the Southwark.
SOME LIVELY SKlRMlSHlNG.
fiisr's Army Was to he Crushed or
Driven Into the Lake. but General
swamp,

MANILA, luz G.-The scene of the
lighting has changed again and a
campaign is on east and south of
Manila, Il territory that was cleared
OF rebels more than we months ago
by General Lawton. Lawton was
again in chargs of the plan of action,
but General Hall was in direct com.
mand of the expedition.
with part of the Fourth cavalry,
the Oregon and Wyoming volunteers,
the Ninth infantry, and guus of the
First and Sixth artillery, General
Hall left the pumping station at 5
o'clock Saturday morning to fight his
way over the hills to Antipolo.
The plan vas to drive the native
troops under General Pillar from Anti
polo to the Morong peninsula, where
there would be no escape for them.
The main body OF the natives was
supposed to be in Antipolo. Halls
army was to attack them in the rear.
while n strong force would meet their
front from Tay-Tay. Thus the insur.
gent forces should be driven to the
Morong peninsular and crushed or
drowned.
The plan was a good one, but il
failed of complete success because it
took seven hours for Halls troops to
cover the distance, which it had been
expected would take them two, and
the insurgents were warned in time
to run to cover.
The failure of Hall to get through
to Antipolo in time wa due first to
the rice swamps encountered, soldiers
wading through them waist deep in
mud, and secondly to n fight in the
hills four miles from the town. The
Oregon regiment and the detachment
of the Fourth cavalry suffered in the
encounter. The insurgents fired upon
the attacking column from strong
trenches high up on the mountain
side, and, althouih driven from these,
kept up a running fire for several
hours.
General Halls column, in the move
ment upon the Morong peninsula,
completed a circuit of twenty miles
over rough and mountainous country,
having W engagements with the
insurgents, one of them severe, and
HSCPihB up al diiuoSI COhSJiiU HTe
against scattered bands of rebels for
nearly twenty-four hours, from 4
o'clock Saturday morning, when the
column left the pumping station.
The Filipinos were driven in every
direction and tn, country through
which General Hall passed was pretty
thoroughly cleared.
In this fight the American loss was
four killed, three of the Fourth cav
airy and one Oregonian, and about
fifteen wounded. The Filipino loss
could not be ascertained.
The original plan was to surround
the forces Of General Pho del Pillar so
that he must retreat to the Morong
peninsula, where capture would have
been inevitable.
This was not n complete success be-
cause General Halls column found
the country full OF handicaps to
marching. There were several
streams to be bridged or forded, and
the troops frequently fioundered
through morasses, waist deep ia mud,
an experience which, under the ter.
rife sun, exhausted the Americans
quite beyond endurance. Most of
General Pho del Pillars followers are
supposed to have escaped northward,
probably reaching Bosonloso, a strong
hold in the mountains.
General Hall is marching from An
tipolo, about six and one-half miles
northeast of Morong, toward the
peninsula, with his forces spread out
to cover a large section.
Colonel Truman, with the First
North Dakota regiment, and the
Twelfth infantry, is advancing along
the coast OF the lake from Taytay. in
cidentally clearing several small
towns. Colonel Wholley, with the
First Washington regiment, has land
ed on the peninsula above the town
OF Morong. The army gunboats Nap
idan, C~ovadonga and Ceste are in n po-