Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-20
Strong Effort Being Made to Bring
tho Rebellion to Speedy
Close.
Termination Of Rainy Season Per.
mits Operations to Be
Extended.


series Of aggressive movements against
the insurgents, notably upon the island
of Sanuar against Gen. 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 infantry and a
platoon of artillery.
The rebels are continually shooting
into the garrisoned towns and our
forces have not been suficient TO re-
taliate effectively. Commerce In Samar
has been at standstill and most Of the
influential inhabitants have departed.
Gen. Hare has arrived here with $50
men. He will bring eight companies of
the Second infantry from the island Of
Martinique, as they may be needed.
and will proceed energetically to crush
Gen. Lukban. Meantime United States
gunboats will patrol the coast to pre-
vent the escape OF the insurgent leader.
Lukban still holds three members Of
the Forty-thlrd infantry prisoners.
Many Of the rifles which the party Of
Capt. Devereaux Shields, OF Company
F, Twenty-ninth infantry, lost last
September in Martinique, at the time
of the capture. have not yet been re-
covered from the insurgents. All OF the
Martinique garrdsons are being con-
tinued.
The Fourteenth infantry, which re-
Gently arrived from China, will relieve
the Twenty FIRST infantry from duty In
Manila and the Twenty-first will re-
zon, the Thirty-eighth infantry pro-
ceeding to the island of Panay to REIN
force the troops there. The Twenty
eighth infantry will reinforce the gar
rison in the island of Mindanao, par
ticularly at Kagayan, where an armed
truce between the rebels and the
Americans has existed for months past.
Gen. Wheaton, commanding in the
department of southern Luzon, Is send
Ing reinforcements to Gen. foung's
provinces, where the natives under
Gems. Ttnio and Asiipay. the excom-
municated Filipino priest, are showing
signs of rsstlessna4s, DESERVING the
domiciles they have occupied during
the rainy season and Joining under
compulsion OF fear the insurgents in the
mountains.
Notable among the weeks engage
ments was Gen. Grants advance with
Mac abebe and American scouts upon a
rebel stronghold thirty-five miles north
Of Manila, which was defer ed by 200
insurgents armed with rifles. After
diminishing and fighting for the greater
part of the day and night the enemy
was dislodged from the mountain fast
ness and im,rense quantities of rice
and stores, with ammunition, were de-
stroyed Fifty Filipinos were killed
and many others wounded. The insur-
gents carried on their dead. The
American losses We're eleven privates
| ana one officer wounded and one Maca-
| bebe killed.
| Lieut.. Frederick w. Alstaeter, of the
engineers, who was captured by the in
surgents in Luzon last September. has
sent, with permission OF his captors
a letter to Manila asking for food
money and clothing. .whpich will be
forwarded to him by a native runner
His health is broken and his release
! problenatical
4 Gen. Macarthur has gone to Subie
bay with Admiral Remey on the United
States cruiser Brooklyn for the pur-
pose Of examining the locality. It /:
4 probable that 1900 marines now in Phil.
4 ippine waters will be used to relieve
4 certain army posts, rendering relieved
1 soldiers available for other and NOR,
urgent duties. It is understood tina
Gen. Macarthur is considering thu
question of establishing more marine.
in the vicinity OF Subig. He is expect
4 ed to return here soon.
Altho news and commercial mes
sages Between Manila and points ii
America and Europe are not subject I,
censorship, all messages between tn,
Philippines and the orient are censored
4 as heretofore
\ Two hundred bolomen, with fit.
Z rifles, attacked Bugazon, island OF Pa
may, October 80 The Americans log
: three men kiiled-Lieut. H. NJ. Koontz
4 Sergt. Kitchen and Corporal Burns-a
a OF Company f. Forty-fourth infantry
The enemy lost 100 killed, twenty-on
wounded and twenty prisoners.
. THE ELECTIONS IN PORTO RICO.
\ Vote on tho Island Was All But Una
nimous for Republicans.
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