The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-19
BOTH SIDES ACTIVE
shiRMl~lttsS nETNEEN REBELS
AND AMERICANS.
FIGHTING CLOSE TO MANILA.
GRANTS FOHCE KILLED FIFTY on
TuE INstUGENTS.

First Unc~nsored New. Dispatch
STAGE American Occupation OF
rhiIippis~s--I'tltpla Continually
shooting Into the GarriHonra
Towns-.ans aost ~ shields Com-
pany Net nrcaptured Captured
Lieutenant seat for Food
Manila Nov iS-(Firs, unccnsorcd news
hy cable since American occupssionD
Last week witnessed very considerable
increase Ia rebel aud American activity
go the field Many sklrmlshos occurred
and several small cngaEemcuts in North
crn and southern Luzon. The termination
Of the rains permits resumption Of op-
craiioas on both sidef
The Americans are undertaking series
of aggressive movements against the IN
rurgen's. notably upon the island Of sa-
mar. against Gen Lukban. whose forces
hold the entire island with the exception
of three coast towns. each OF watch ss
garrsoned hy two companies OF the Twen-
iy-ninth Infantry aud a platoon OF arul-
lery.
The rebels are continually shooting into
che garrisoncd towns. aud our forces have
not been sufficient 70 reianate effective
~, Commerce la samar has been al q
standHtil and most of the influential in
hhlaiauta have departed Gen Hare has
arrived there with 20 men lie viii
bring eight companies Of che Second NJ
fan'ry from the island OF Marinduque.
a. they may be needed and viii proceed
energetcliy 10 crush Gen Lukhan.
Meanwhile United States gunboats will
patrol the coast 10 prevent the escape os
the insurEent leader. I.ukban stili holds
three members of the Forty-shlrd Reri-
ment prisoners
Guns Net Recaptured.
The rifles which tho party 81 Cant. De.
vereauS Shields OF Company r. Twenty
ninth Volunteer Infantry LOST lasf seq
tember in Martinique. at the time 81 tas
capture. have uos yet been recovered from
the Fihpinos. All the Morlnduquo gar
risons are being continued
The Fourteenth Infantry. which recent.
" arrived from CHINA. will relieve the
Twenty-frst Infantry from duty In Ma
Mia. and the TRenty-iirst will relieve the
7 Ehiriy-oighth infaniry IN Southern Luz
xon. the Tnirty-slEhth infantry sroceed.
Ing 20 the Island 81 Panay to reinforce
the troops there
The Twenty-eighih Infantry win rein
force the garrison So the Island Of Min.
danao particularly at Gagayan where an
armed truce between the rebels and tho
Americans has existed FOR months past
Gen. Wheaton. commanding IN the de-
partment of Northern Luz0n. is sending
reinforcement TO Gen, YounR'B provinces,
where the natives. under Gen. Tinyo ana
ARlipay. the ex-communicated Filipino
Priest. are showing signs Of restieaHness,
deserving the dpmiciles they have occU-
pied during the rainy season. and Joining
Under comuulsion Of fear the insurgents
Ia the mouutalns
Grants Fight Near Manila.
Notable among The weeks engagements
was Gen. Grants advance. with Maccahe-
bee and American scouts upon a rebel
stronghold thirty five miles north OF Ma
Mia. which vac defended By two hundred
insurgents armed with rifles. After skir-
mishing and nghting FOR the greater part
Of day and night. the enemy was dis
lodged from the mountain fasineas. ani
iinmense quantities Of rice and storea
with considerable ammunition. were de-
stroyed Fifty Fliplnou we're killed nnd
mnuy others wounded The insurgents
carried or their dead. The Americas
losses were eleven privases aud one 0fficer
wounded and one Maccabebee killed
Lieut. Frederick w. Aistaefer of the en-
gncets, who was captured BY the insur-
gents IN Luzon last September. has sent,
with the permission Of his captora. q let
ter TO Manila asking for food. money AMI
clothing. which will be forwarded 70 him
by native runner. His hearth is broken
and hts release problematical
Gen. Macarthur has gone 10 Subig Bav
with Admiral Remey on the United states
cruiser BROOKLYN for the purpose of ex-
amining the locality. II ia probable that
eighteen hundred marines now IN Philip
pine waters. Will be used 10 relieve GER
tain army posts. rendering the relieved
soldiers available FOR other and more urg-
ent duties q iH understood that Gen.
Macarthur Is considering the question OF
establishing mOre marines IN the vicinity
~ Sublg lie D. expected TO return here
io-morfow.
Although news nnd commercial mes
sagcs between Manila and points IN Amer
lea and Europe are not subject 20 cen-
sorshff an messages between the Philip
pines and the orient are censored as here
tofcro.