Connecticut western news., 1900-11-22
FIGHTING FILIPINOS.
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN IN PHILIPPINES
 RESUMED.
Special Enort to Capture Lukban, on Island of Snmsr-General Grants opersttons-A Filipino Stronghold Near Manila Reduced.

Special Enort to Capture Lukban. on
 Island of Sam@r-GeneraI Grants
 operstion.-A Filipino Stronghold
 Near Manila Reduced.
 Last week witnessed a very considera- ble increase in rebel and American actiy- ity in the field in the Philippines. Many skirmishes occurred and several small en- gsgensnts in northern and southern Lu- zon. The termination of the rains permits a resumption of operations on both sides.
 The Americans are undertaking a se- ries of aggressive movements against the insurgents, notably upon the island of Samar against General Lukban, whose forces hold the entire island with the ex- ception of three coast towns, each of which is garrisoned by two companies of the Twenty ninth infantry and pla- toon of artillery.
 The rebels are continually shooting into the garrisoned towns. and our forces have not been sufficient to retaliate effectively. Commerce in Samar has been at a stand still. and most of the influential inhabit- ants have departed. General Hare has arrived there with 250 men. He will bring eight companies of the Second h. fantry from the island of Marinduque, as they may be needed, and will proceed en- ergetically to crush General Lukban. Meanwhile United States gunboats will patrol the coast to prevent the escape of the insurgent leader. Lukban still holds three members of the Forty-third regi- ment prisoners.
 The rifles which the party of Captain Devereaux Shields of Company F, Twen' ty-ninth volunteer infantry, lost last Sep tember in MarinduQue at the time of the capture have not yet been recovered from the Filipinos. All the Martinique garri. sons are being continued.
 General Wheaton,. Operations.
 The Fourteenth infantry, which recent ly arrived from China, will relieve the Twenty-hrst infantry from Manila, and the Twenty-frst will relieve the Thirty eighth infantry from southern Luzon, the Thirty-eighth infantry proceeding to the island of Panay to re-enforce the troops there.
 The Twenty-eighth infantry will re- enforce the garrisons in the island of Mindanao, particularly at Kagayan where an armed truce between the rebels and the Americans has existed foI months past.
 General Wheaton, commanding in the department of northern Luzon, is sending re-enforcements to General Young's prov inces, where the natives, under General Tinio and Aglipay, the exeommunicated Filipino priest, are showing signs of rest lessness, deserting the domiciles they have occupied during the rainy season and joining under compulsion of fear tn, insurgents in the mountains.
 Notable among the weeks engagements was General Grants advance, with Mac cabebe and American scouts, upon a reb el stronghold 8 miles north of Manila which was defended by POO insurgent, armed with rifles. After skirmishing and fighting for the greater part of a day and night the enemy was dislodged from tn, mountain fastness, and immense quanti ties of rice and stores, with considerabl, ammunition, were destroyed. Fifty Fiji pinos were killed and many others wound ed. The insurgents carried on their dead The American losses were II private, and one officer wounded and one Macca bebe Killed