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El|PIiOS USE CANNON.
Make Early Morning Attack Cd
Santa Rita, Guagua and
San Antonio.
REPULSED WITHOUT LOSS TO AMERICANS
States That of Gen. MncArthur's
Division SO Per Cent. of officers
and 20 Per Cent. of Enlisted Men
Are Sick.

Mania, sept. IL. - A force OF 45U
rebels, with one cannon, attacked Santa
Rita early Saturday morning and stimuli
/ taneously Guagua and San Antonio
were attacked by bodies of rebels num-
bering about 60 men.
All the attacks were repulsed without
loss to the Americans.
Col. Bell and his regiment, while at
tempting to take the rebels in the rear,
met two small patrols and succeeded
in capturing rebel captain, lieuten-
ant and six privates.
A Filipino who has arrived here from
the Visayas islands says the Victori-
ana Mapa, a prominent and wealthy
lawyer of Iloilo, being forced by pub
lie opinion to declare his politics, has
joined the rebels.
The inhabitants of Santa Barbara,
the rebel headquarters in the island of
Panay. have abandoned the town. fear.
ing bombardment of the place by the
United States battleship Oregon.
Sensational Report.
Manila, Sept. (via Hong Kong, Sept.
1D.-The censor has refused to allow
the following dispatch, the accuracy of
which is unquestioned, to be tele-
eraphed:
The surgeons reports in regard to the
condition of Gen. MacArthur's division
snow that 36 per cent. of the officers and
25a per cent. of the enlisted men are sick.
Ihis includes the sick in quarters and those
sent home. Eleven per cent. of the enlisted
men sick in quarters are mostly SUFFERING
from dysentery and malarial fevers.'
Otis Ordered to Plan Campatpn
Washington, Sept. 11.-Gen. Otis has
been instructed, in framing his plan
OF campaign for the dry season, to allow
for the fullest participation of the naval
forces now in the Philippines, and as
soon as he has been heard from the
necessary orders will go forward to the
naval commanders to cooperate with
the army TO an extent not before con-
templated
The naval officers have always been
willing to do this, but they have been
restrained in their operations by an
lndisposition to interfere in any man.
ner with the plans of the military com
mander. The ships will undertake to
capture any OF the ports now in insur-
gent possession that may be desired by
the army, and also to hold them indefin-
1tely, thus making it possible to open
the railroad on Luzon from the north
ern extremity; while in Cavite province,
with the large force of marines now
on hand, it is believed that the navy can
undertake to relieve the soldiers sta
toned there and make available con-
siderable force for other operations.
Order Issued for Colored Regiments.
Washington, Sept. 11'- An order for
the organization of two colored repi-
ments was issued from the war depart-
ment Saturday All of the field officers
of these two regiments are white men
now in the regular army All of the
company officers are colored men who
served in the war with Spain in either
the regulars or the volunteers. The
regiments will be designated the Forty
eighth and Forty-ninth volunteer in
fantry. The Forty-eighth will be organ
lzed at Fort Thomas, Ky, and the For
ty-ninth at Jefferson Barracks, Mo,
Officers of Regiments,
The full complement of officers has
been selected, and following are the
field officers
= Forty,,eighth regiment-colonel. William
+. DuVall, captain First artillery; lieutenant
colonel. Thaddeus w. Jones' captain Tenth
cavalry Majors. Sedgewick Rice, first
lieutenant Seventh cavalry; Alexander L.
Daoe, first lieutenant Third cavalry; John
howard, first lieutenant Nineteenth in
=, Forty-ninth regiment-Colonel, William
q; seek, captain Tenth cavalry; lieutenant
colonel, Arthur C. Ducat captain Twenty.
fourth infantry. Majors, Ernest Kinds.
I nrsi lieutenant Second artillery; George W.
hlfkman, captain Twenty third infantry;
James James e. Brett. captain Twenty fourth in