The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-13
General Schwan Abandoning the
Towns He Has Captured.
IS RETURNING TO mus
CLAIM A FINE DISPLAY OF
AMERICAN GENERALSHIP.
Whipped the Enemy In the swamps,
Where the Filipinos Had Their
Greatest Successes In the War
With the Spaniards-Many Pris-
oners Taken-WiIl Be Released.

expedition having accomplished its
object, the troops are all returning to
their former positions, abandoning the
towns taken. General Schwan is en-
route from Perez de Marinas to linus
with the infantry, while the artillery
and cavalry and all mule teams are
retracing their route from Malabon to
Bacoor, with the signal corps removing
the wires General Trias. with the or
gained bodies of insurgents. retreated
TO Slang and Indang, at the base of
the mountain.
The movement of United States
generalship and energy. while the Fill
pinos adopted what General Alejan-
drino terms our peculiar method of
warfare The whole country is an
immense swamp, and the Filipinos
never expected that the Americans
could or would attempt to invade it
during the wet season. Moreover. the
line of march furnished a succession of
surprises, the advancing troops being
generally attacked from the unexpected
points.
In Cevite province, the scene of the
hottest fights and their great successes
over the Spaniards. the Filipinos might
have been expected to make a resolute
stand, if anywhere, but after their
whippings at Cavite, Viejo and Novel
eta. their tactics consisted chiefly in a
continuous exhibition of their agility
and their transformation from war
riors to amigos.
Reoceupy the Trenches.
The marines. while accommodating
about the scene of Sundays encounter,
find that the trenches have already
been Teoccupied. although the enemy
manifested more than their usual will
ingness to retreat before the AmeTi-
cans. Bands have appeared along the
shore road between Bacoor and Ro
saTio, and the troops returning by that
route expect another fight at Rosario.
At Malabon the Americans corralled
200 or 800 natives, supposed to be fight
ing men. A few of them were caught
with arms in their hands, but large
numbers We're found in hiding, dressed
in khaki like the American uniform.
A majority of them were in the garb of
amigoes, but they are suspected of
shooting at the troops from houses. a
growing habit, which flourished
throughout the advance whenever
small parties of Americans Strayed
from the main body, The prisoners
are a white elephant on the hands of
the Americans.
The Malabon contingent spent an
unhappy night incarcerated in
church. A native priest and an uncle
of General Trias were discovered in the
Filipino arsenal outside the town. They
are credited with being two Of the pill
lars of the insurrection, but they Wig
orously proclaim their innocence.
Prisoners VIII Be Released.
The leading citizens of Rosario are
temporarily engaged in towing fleet
of canoes laden with the American
army's impediments at Bacoor. The
prisoners, with Ine exception of those
caught red-hanc3d, viii be released, as,
owing to the fact that the insurgents
have so many more men than guns,
unless the policy of reconcen-
tration Which General Weyier pursued
is to be adopted.
In conversation with an Associated
Press representative, a leading mer-
chant of Rosario remarked: They will
all be engaged in their old business as
soon as released"
When asked where the army had
gone, the merchant replied: "A ma
hid their gun when they saw a SUI
perior force approaching.
The fighting falls the hardest on the
women and children. Hundreds OF
them spent the night before the Amer
leans reached Rosario in boats, the
bay for miles being crowded with small
craft containing non-combatants, few
CT whom remained in the town.
Wagons Dragged Through Mire.
The work Of commissary and quar-
termaster's departments. directed by
Captains Biddle and Horton, was re-
markable throughout. The tlansporta-
ton of supplies from Rosario to Ma
labon seemed TO be impossible. The
wagons had to De repeatedly unloaded
and reloaded while being dragged
through the mire.
General Schwan is marching back
without the teams. all the loads of
baggage being shipped from Bacoor by
canoes and the wagons going empty.
A telegraphic squad, under Lieuten-
ant Clark. kept the wire abreast of the
line to Malabon, but in order to do
this the teams had to be abandoned
and the wire carried by Coolies.