The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-11-23
FIGHTING FILIPINOS.
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN IN PHILIPPINES
RESUMED.

Special Effort to Capture Lukban, ON
Island of Samar-General Grants
Operations--A Filipino Stronghold
Near Manila Reduced.
Last week witnessed a very considera-
bic increase in rebel and American actiy-
| ity in the field in the Philippines. Many
| skirmishes occurred and several small en-
| gagements in northern and southern Lu-
zon. The termination of the rains permits
a resumption of operations on both sides.
| The Americans are undertaking a Sc
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 inhahit-
ants have departed General Hare has
arrived there with $50 men. He will
bring eight companies of the Second in
fantry from the island of Martinique, as
they may be needed, and will proceed en-
ergetically to crush General Iukban.
Meanwhile United States gunboats viii
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. TWEEN
ty-ninth volunteer infantry, lost last Sep
TENDER in Martinique at the time of the
capture have not yet been recovered from
the Filipinos. All the Martinique garri-
sons are being continued
General WheatOn's Operations.
The Fourteenth infantry, which recent
ly arrived from China, will relieve the
Twenty-frst 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 REINFORCE 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 for
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 accommodated
Filipino priest, are showing signs of rest
lessness, deserving the domiciIes they
have occupied during the rainy season
and joining under eompulsion of fear the
insurgents in the mountains.
Notable among the weeks engagements
was General Grants advance, with Mac
cabebe and American scouts, upon a reb-
Ell stronghold 35 miles north Of Manila,
which was defended by 200 insurgents
armed with rifles. After slsirmishing and
lighting for the greater part of a day and
night the enemy was dislodged from the
fastness, and immense quanti-
ties of rice and stores, with considerable
were destroyed. Fifty Fill
Dinos were killed and many others wound
ed The insurgents carried off their dead
The American losses were I'll privatc4~
and one officer wounded and one Macca
bebe killed.