Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-03-30
Aguina|do Retreating
Toward maloIaS.

Back Under Calling Fire.
Decisive Battle is Expected Soon.
Washington, March IA cable dispatch has been
ceived from General Otis saying that the battle continued
March a. with the loss of about forty the side
He says the troops will prees forward in the morning Agui-
nado commanded the insurgents in It supposed
that the dispatch senton the evening of Monday odsy
March 81.
Washington, March 27.-Ihe following is the dispatch
received from General Otis referred in the previous bull
letin. 1t reached Washington at $3.50 this morning.
Manila March %, l899.-Adjutant general Washington:
Macarthur holds Maron fighting today and our
casualties about forty. The insurgents have destroyed
bridges which mpeded OF trains and artillery Our
troops the nsugent northern line
commended by Agunado and drove with consider
able slaughter They left nearly 100 dead the field and
many prisoners and small captured The column
will press in the morning
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FORCED BACK BY THE
AMERICAN
Manila March 27.-(3:25 p. m.)-General MacArthur's
division spent the night morning Maykawayan the
next station beyond Polo After accommodating his front
pushed along the railroad this afternoon Maolos If
the statement of the hirtyye prisoners captured today
true the main body of the enemy has retreated Maoos
But there trenches to encounter, although
thirty villages including the larger settlements of Bu-
lacan and Gudguinto intervene.
At every railroad station circulars have been posted
signed by the Filipino chief Al tonic Luna
ordering all spies and bearers of to the enemy be
shot without trial and nsucng that all ooters and ravsh-
ers be treated in the Further, all towns
abandoned by the Filipino troops first to be burned
While deporng the existence of the circular main
tains the undeniabe right Of the Fpnoa defend their
homes lives and lands against woudbe dominators who
rwivna a.
motive ought to mpe all Fipnos to sacrifice everything
The Smelling OF Paranaqua not premeditated. The
turet ship Monadnock anchored off the and the nsur-
gents embodened by the long silence warshps on
guard duty opened fire her with uskets with the result
that killed and three wounded The Monad-
nook then destroyed half the town. including the church
The Washington regiment had exciting experience
and displayed much galantry The soldiers found band of
insurgents concealed in stone house which the French
flag flying private volunteered to set fire to the
building He did and the troops approached while it was
burning and the Filpnos had apparently fed But they
were greeted with sudden voley from the balcony Of the
house, resulting the building being cleared Of the enemy
in short order.
INSURGENTS
Manila, March 27.-7:4O p. ma thousand Filipinos,
composing the guard of the rebel army which
ing Maolos Aguinaldos headquarters made stand
day in strong entertainments about Marlao the
Marao river In the engagement Americans we're killed.
Including three officers and forty wounded.
The American forces advanced from Meyoauyan the
brigade commanded by General Harrison Gray Otis being
the left OF the railroad and General Hales the right
They eventually dcerned white roofs and seepes among
green trees beyond the river looking unlike Massachu-
sets village The rebels had unfordable of
them and they poured fire effective that tshowed
they veterans probably members of the native militia
which the Spaniards organized.
ARTILLERY BROUGHT INTO PLAY.
The American artillery put dramatic end to the battle.
Approaching under of the brushes about sixty yards
from the trenches the arllerymen emerged upon open
commanding the town. When the Americans appeared
they great yell and the Flipnos pancstrcen
about hundred seeking safety in fight while white flag
raised by those who in the trenches who also
shouted Amigos" (friends.)
Colonel Funston, with twenty of the Kansas regiment
the river to the left of the railroad bridge and
captured eighty prisoners, with all their arms.
The Pennsylvania reg iment captured forty prisoners
By this time the right of the Flipnos demoralized
The Americans refraned from burning the town and are
resting there tonight.