Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-26
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place where Gen. Paua has been making
his headquarters and which he has said We
could not take. We did take it with a
rush and only one rush at that. They
mt lp a fairly well sustained defense and
opened fire on us before we located lneir
force Their towns arc so e!aborately lor-
tilted that we never know just how many
poen they have nor where. until the light
ouens Generally find that some CT
their Notifications are mere blhos or CIV
ers for others that are we'll concealed ana
where their force is lying in wait. We mad
coan snake from n large fire for some time
before We reached the city, and when we
got in we found that the smoke came from
the church, which was almost entreiy ae-
stroyed before we reached it, and Whlch
n..s |,roed TO the ground. This was the
only building burned here. Our men mad a
rest after the scrap was over, ana FOUR
Chtnamen who came out of their hoes ana
who were the only living persons We tound
IN the Mace. told us that Gen. Paua left
one end of the main street as we came IN
at the other and that he had had INV
men there that morning. After we nau
secuted the town and its environs. ana the
49, had rested bit, we started back. and
were in LegaSpi, sixteen miles away, py
$50 that night, the I'D
."roday an American came in and reported
as a released prisoner OF Gen. faua =. a., I,e
was a miner who had been captured on the
Island of Batan, about ten miles on thls
coast, two weeks ago. while prospecting
and saws Paua is now at Llgau tLeegoW)'
accent on the second syllable), with large
force Ijeau is some seven or eight miles
beyond Guineabaton, and we are gong up
there next to give Paua chance to argue
with u.s. When we have driven MN away
from there we will follow him on to Polan-
gui Po-long-hee) near which place he is
said to have a cartridge factory.
News From Gen. Bates.
1--WE hear that Gen. Bates has captured
Nueya Caceres and that a part of the force
he has with him has come south to point
about twenty miles north of Polanague 1t
is unfortunate that we have not more men.
With two or three additional companies we
could garrison Camalig and Guineabaton
and hold them. AS 1t Is now, our slhaii
force can whip Paua's army-and has whip
ped 1t half dozen times-but we cannot
strip Daraga, Afbay and Legaspi of their
small garrisons in order to hold the towns
we capture The result is always as it was
at Malabog, Camalig and Guineabaton. We
capture the towns and clean them out and
within a few hours withdraw to our posts
and the next day the Fflipinos are pack
where they were the day before, and. nav
ing any number of men at their disposal
In twenty-four hours more the trenches and
other defensive works have been rebuilt as
good as they were before we destroyed
them.
..Since we took Gueneabaton we have
been making things interesting for our
friends, the enemy. by resuming our daily
one company hikes, Striking Out III ali Ill
rections and giving the Filipinos plenty Of
leg exercise. At town called Libon (Lee-
bohn), on the coast. some ten miles north
of here We found pitfalls prepared for us
trenches about six feet deep. ten feet long
and five feet wide, the bottoms Of which
have a plentiful supply of sharpened bam-
boo stakes set closely together, points up
and the whole thing covered over with
mat, on which just enough earth is laid to
conceal 1t. Some OF our men have fallen
into these things, but without serious re-
gone down. and IN others the trench was
too narrow, and the victim was able to
reach the further side with his hands as he
went in and SO save himself
Talk of transportation.
is transportation. We landed without a
mule or horse. The town was absolutely
cleaned out of all its Inhabitants by the
Filipinos when they left it, and of course
they also took all their ponies and water
buffalo with them. Our regimental quar-
termaster got our stores ashore by working
the men on such broken-down carts as the
natives had abandoned as useless, and the
plains, some three or four miles away and
captured a drove of ponies and a bunch of
unbroken water BUFFALO. He took apart
the carts found in the town, and, using a
wheel of one and some other fairly good
parts Of another, made a blackboard capa-
Bile Of carrying about 1000 pounds, and to
this hitched four ponies by means of rope
harness. This is all the transportation we
have had, and we have been here for more
less except for short hauls. He moves very
slowly at his best never to exceed a mile