Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-17
Advices Received From Manila Foretel a
Grand Finale in Philippines.
REBELS THROW ARMS INTO RIVER
Washington Volunteers Down $50 Additional
Prisoners Tagus-rIounain Batteries to be Sen, to
Gen. Ots-Twentieth Regiment Returns to the Front

company X. Private Edward Pynchon
back. moderate.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR MANILA.
oswcgo. n. v. March Accompany
q, Nlnth Infantry, lett Fort Ontario
for Manila Via San Francisco today.
\ public demonstration was given on
their departure The post here may 10
abandoned.
SANTA CRUZ SHIELDED.
Now York. March IA dispatch to
the Herald from Manila says.
ON Monday your correspondent went
aboard the United states gunboat La
glnh De Hay and accompanied her In
the chase ~ the rebels She first
steamed past the town of pasig and
turned her Calling guns on the insur-
gents intr"nchcd along the shorr. The
Insurgents We're 30 frightened that tho
women, children. horses. soldiers and
carabos, fled In hundreds across the
open neldr toward Laguna De hay.
The Runboat ceased firing but followed
close behind the panic stricken crowd.
driving them inland.
ON Tuesday the gunbont Certe Joined
the IsaHunn De Hay, both under COM
inand Of Captain Grant They made
for the lake channel. which had been
blocked BY the Insurgents, but they
nnally cleared the way.
On the lake We chased two sailing
vessels which were full OF inaurgent
troops. Both vessels refused 10 SUR
render ana ran ashore. the troops ca-
Gaping In spite OF our IRE.
During "wednesday while approaching
Santn Cruz, the richest city on the
lake, we raised white fiag when 600
yards from the shore. 4 large force ~
insurgents In lntrenched In front ~ the
town but they refused to confer with
us. Then We shelicd their position Of
fcctively and withdrew 60 the end "
the lake 60 await the landing Of forces.
PROPOSED MOSQUITO FLEET.
Washington. March 1.-THE navy de-
nartment II taking steps toward tho
formation % a mosquito fleet for tho
Philippines. The conditions now pre-
yailinR In Luxon indicate that for q
long time II viii he necessary 10 main
tain a strict police 81 the coast and
In land waters. For the Inland work
especially the department VIII need
some very Hight draft boats.
For this work the big ocean tugs that
formed the mosquito fleet that operated
around cuba during the blockade and
" which the government has a number.
are now being looked over with view
90 Just this service. some Of them are
On the Pacific coast. The department
has figured out "a cOuHting voyage that
will take them up the Alaskan coast.
coallng az Sltka. unalaaka, Cooks In
let and down through the Aleuiian
Islands 10 Hakedota, the northcr
point ~ Japan, Thence they can make
the run acrosa the China sea down to
ii0nHkunR ana thence 90 the Philip
pines. II win be about q two months
voyage, but one that can be mads safe
~. Spain had large fleet Of the small
runbonta ana torpedo gunboatH adj
mirably suited for this work In tho
Philippines but Spain has recently sold
thirteen of them AZ Iiongkong, II IL
possible some Of these vessels may be
rrputchaaed by the government In case
they are In good condition and can De
had for reasonable sum. The tugs
destined for the Philippine service VIII
be armed with u abundance u machine
guns and with heavier rapid IRE guns
up Ia six or twelve Founders.