The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-19
The ADVANCING COLUMN
olk NstllIes the War Department Of the
Movements sfLswion and Macarthur.
SEVERAL sMlRMlsafs WITH flllpsos
Ueung and balance Are Said to Be
Driving the Natives Before Them
ana to BE Making Prisoners.

washington, November 1s.-Two dis
patches were received at the war depart
ment today from General OTIS giving the
details OF the advance OF kawton and Mac
Arthur. The hrst dispatch follows:
Manila. November ls.-General MacAr
thur entered Corona yesterday and pusned
advance to Paniqui. few miles beyond
inhabitants remaining in houses recelvins
troops Hospitality: frst instance during
snt,re advance from San Fernando. Rail
road intact from washout north lariac
20 PAINFUL. but engines aud cars partiaiy
destroyed by insurgents on retreating' SUI
ficient rolling stock can be repaired 10 IN
sura railway service. Nothing from Cen
erai Lawton, as telegraph line only worh-
inv as far as San Jose. south OF Carrahs
ian and thirty-tve miles east OF Iayus'
His cavalry reported yesterday at Bayou
hong railway station south OF pagupan'
Reinforcements and supplies leave h e.o
for san Fabian, Wheaton's Headquarters,
tonight. indications are that insursene
troops are well scattered hetreaelhs "
the Western Luzon province OF Sanpuis
Under date OF today General OTIS again
,elerrapbed having received advices from
Iawton. General Otis says: 'Dispatch
from General Lawton dated on road oe-
tween San Nicholas and San Manuel iV'lo
18th inst, transmits from General iouhS
and Major Balance at Aringan ana
Rosales on November 10Th ma letn'
former moving OH posarub about Twelve
miles east Of san Fahhian and twenty-n Ye
miles west Of San Nicholas, where MAJOR
Swigert finds enemy strongly en- eheneu
Young and Balance have had several
skirmishes with enemy driving them north :
ward. capturing prisoners, guns iarga
amounts OF property. Troops have sub
sisted on country. cordially received oy IN
habitants. would appear insurgents nriV-
en- northwestward OFF road to Bayono1ng'
their mountain capitol. Lewton reports
drowning OF Lieutenant Luna Thirty.
fourth infantry. his aid. and two men OF
his escort in crossing Agno river; also
reports still missing Lieutenant Thayer
md ten men sent to comhcnicate with
General wheaton. He says, must refer
again 10 fortitude, eniurauceNa and cheer
fulness Of command Hayes just tele-
graphs from san Isidro that he holds
Agulnaldos secretary of the interior. In
dications nov of good weather.
Washington, November 1s-The object
OF the recent movements chrcnicled, in
General Otis dispatches are not clear. I'M
less it is to occupy the different cities and
drive the insurgents away. 1t would seam
that any hope that Otis may have enter
tanned OF surrounding a large body OF In
surgents must have been abandoned. a.
he reports the insurgents as scatterej
with only indefinite information as Il
where they have gone. II 1t is true tina
some of them have gone into the Westesi
province of Zambesa, they can yet b
captured, as the complete ocoupa lon o
the country between Manila and Dagupal
would prevent their escape. Thu secon'
dispatch, which reports the operations o
Lawton indicates a belief on the part o
Otis that the insurgents have been drive;
northwestward off the read 10 Bayonbong
This town is far to the northeast Of tbs
country in which Lawton Is operating. anl
il seems TO be the hope o; o;is that the
insurgents have been prevented from GO
Ing to the mountain capital. though, "a
eordlng to maps in the war dapar me t
no obstacles seem to exist which would
prevent them from reaching Bayonbon,
from the Western country, where it is
supposed they have been driven.