The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-11-23
WITHOUT THE CENSOR
The First Uncensored Dispatch Come
From: Manila Since the U. S.
Took Possession

news by cablegram since tne American
occupation LAST week witnessed a
very considerable increase in rebel
and American activity in the field.
Many skirmishes occurred and several
small engagements in Northern and
Southern Luzon. The termination of
the rains permits a resumption of OPP
erations on both sides.
The Americans are undertaking a
series OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES against
the insurgent, notably upon the island
of Samar, against General Lukban,
whose forces hold the entire island,
with the exception of three :.coast
towns, each of which is garrisoned by
two companies of the Twenty -ninth in
fantry and platoon of artillery.
The rebels are continually shooting
into the garrisoned towns, and our
forces have not been sufficient to re-
taliate effectively. Commerce in Sa-
mar has been at a standstill, and most
of the influential inhabitants have de-
parted. General Hare has arrived
there with $50 men. He will bring
eight companies of the second infan-
try from the island of Martinique as
they may be needed, and will proceed
theoretically tocrush General Lukban.
Meanwhile, United States gunboats
will patrol the coast to prevent the
escape of the insurgent leader, LUX
ban still holds three members of the
Forty-third regiment prisoners.
The rifles which the party of Cap
tain Devereaux Shields, of Company
f, Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry,
lost last September in Martinique at
the time of the capture have not
yet been recovered from all the in
surgents. All of the Martinique gar
risons are being continued.
The Fourteeeth infantry, which re-
Gently arrived from China, will relieve
the Twenty-frst infantry from duty in
Manila, and the Twenty-first will re-
lieve the Thirty-eighth infantry in
Southern Luzon, the Thirty eighthlin-
fantry proceeding to the island of
Panay to reinforce the troopsI there.
The Twenty-eighth infantry will rein
force the garrisons in the island of
Mindanao, particularly at,Kagavan,
where an armed truce between the
rebels and the American.h existed for
months past.
General Wheaton, commanding in
the department of Northern Luzon. is
sending reinforcements, to General
Young's provinces, where the natives
under General Tinio and Aglipay, the
accommodated Filipino priest, are
showing signs of restlessness, DESERT
ing the domiciles that they have oc-
cupied during the rainy season, and
joining, under compulsion of fear, the
insurgents in the mountains.
Notable among the weeks engage
ments was General Grants advance
with Maccabebe and American scouts
upon a rebel stronghold, thirty-fve
miles north of Manila, which was de-
Tended by 200 insurgents armed with
rifles. After skirmishing and fighting
for the greater part of a day andnight,
the enemy was dislodged from the
mountain fastness. and immense
quantities of rice and stores, with am
munition, were destroyed. Fifty
Filipinos we're killed and many others
wounded. The insurgents carried of
their dead. The American losses were
eleven privates and one officer wound
ed and one Maccabebe killed.
Lieutenant Frederick w. Alstaeter,
of the engineers who was captured by
the insurgents in Lnzon last September
has sent, with the permission of his
captors, letter to Manila asking for
food, money and clothing which will be
forwarded to him by native runner.
His health is broken and his release
is problematical.
General Macarthur has gone to
Subig bay with Admiral Remey on the
United States cruiser Brooklyn for
the purpose of examining the locality.
1t is probable that l 800 marines now
in Philippine waters will be used to
relieve certain army posts, rendering
the relieved soldiers available for
other and more urgent duties. 1t is
understood that General Macarthur
is considering the question of estab-
fishing more marines in the vicinity
of Subig. He is expected TO return
here tomorrow.
Although news and commercial mes
sages between Manila and points in
America and Europe are not subject
to censorship, all messages between
the Philippines and the Orient are
censored as heretofore.
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