The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-03-14

Catbaloran, Samar Island, Jan. 3D.
General Hobbies expedition for tho oDen-
ing and gnrrisOnng of the ports of Luzon
SONAR anu I.pytc has come as far as Cat
balusun.
At Catbalogan the Filipino general
Lukban fired the town Just before the
Americans landed. and then, having di-
vcrted Il Number OF the soldiers to extin-
gui5h tho conf ,eration. he fought them
from tho noighboriEg hills.
For the last & months Samnr nnd Ieyte
have been bluckudcd by tho American
navy. This cat them off from all busi-
ness ana oven regular mail communicl-
tiun with Manila, and Sorvol to increase
tho hurdshps of The Nisaynp native in
hab!taut4 rs we'll rs Of the few Spanish
and foreign residents of tho stnconst town.
A years unmolcSled sway gave tlmo for
the TaRalo leaders TO perfect their ystem
of governments. which Is founded upon
SPANS former methods, and to establish
well-organizcl though poorly equipped
army of few thousand men. Tho cxact
number of native soldiers hero cannot be
ascortaincl. Only few hundred are arm
cd with rifles, and their ammunition i,
often homemade and defective. The
Others have holos, knives and bows and
arrows There is lnsidcrable artillery
here, but it IS all Of the brass muzHlc-
loading type. and has never done our sol.
diers any harm.
Early on tho morning of January % the
Nashville. the Helena aud the Morave'os,
followed by tho smaller transports of this
expedition, steamed in toward tho town
of Calbayog. The pratico of thanking
those towns ~ always successful. The
Filipinos spend months in building ella"
boratc trenches facing tho saa and from
which they could easily prcvsn, alaning
if it woro made in front Of thom. They
do not seem to consider that their oppo.
ncnts might land down tho beach anu
march into town, for thay ara nercr pre-
pared for such a muvo. and Its prompt OK =
ecutiou Is generally enough to drive them
from their strong intrerchncnts.
AS our soldiers swept over The hlll BE-
lin Il the town they captured three brass
cannon A private WAS loft bohnd to
guard the capture. Those pieces Of muz-
2le loading artillery were about - yards
from each other,anl tho guard began pac-
Ing eloWly back and forth brtWeen them.
As he turned at one end of his beat he saw
two Cinnamon hurriedly trying to drag
away the farlhest cannon. This was clearly
what he was there to Prevent. So no shot
and shot straight and Chinaman died.
The stores and property belonging to
Major Gilmore's bait iion wero landed on
tho DGarh at Ch!Davcs tho Same AFTERNOON
our troops went ashore, and lato that
nigrt General kobbDs expedition started
for Cabalogau, Samar's capital. and 40
miles to the south.
The town was taken after having been
half consumed by fire.
Washington, March Is General O Ia
latest list of deaths in the Philippines is as
follows:
Deaths by suicldo~-Llcut. Louis P.
Weber, Forty .seconl Volunteer Infantry;
Daniel u. Collins, private, Ssventeeth In
fantry; William Parsons, private, Twunty
second Infantry.
Washington. March l3-Gcneral Oils
has notified tho Wur Department that he
has appointed Brig-Gsneral William A.
KDbbt, United States Volunteers. Mill
tary Governor OF the province OF Albay,
and Of the island Of Cataduanes aud tenn
porarily Of the islands of Samar md Leyte.
General kobbe is directed to occupy with
his troops the towns Of Sorsogan, Legaspi
Dorsol and Bulan, of tho province Of AL
bay; the town Of Vlrac, on tho island Of
Cat aduanes; the towns OF Calabayoo and
Catabnlogan on tho Island of Samar; tho
town OF IaclocaD, on the Island of 1eyie
Ho will establish civil government as
rapidly as possible Officers Of his COM
mana will be appointed as customs and
Internal revenue officers for tho more i'm
u0,tant coast ana invsyinr towns that are
occupied Ey American troops.