The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-12-04

party was the only one beyond the lines at
the time the advance was resumed.
Experience had taught us to look for
concealed trenches under the native huts.
and whenever we We're being annoyed by
mysterious bullets as we advanced,
the initial location of which we could
not discover because of the use of
smokeless powder by the insurgents,
it was customary to put a vOiley
into such houses as in any manner
appeared suspicious as likely to be
the ones from which the bullets came. This
was the situation. A few Mausers were
singing their high over the heads of our
line as it advanced, and the Captain of one
of the companies on the line observed
some one moving in a hut to his front. He
ordered volley to be fired by a squad into
the hut. A few minutes later when the
line reached the shack. Prince Lowenstein
was found MORALLY wounded and his com
paniOn slightly. This was the first knOwl-
edge the men in the advance line had of
his presence in their front, and his death,
which soon followed, was due entirely to
his own carelessness. He was tenderly
carried to the rear and sent to Manila. An
official inquiry was made into the occur
renee, the strained relation existing be-
tween the United States and Germany at
the time giving it more Importance than it
would otherwise have commanded, but the
explanation was satisfactory and the Ger
man Government was convinced that the
whole matter was accidental and the result
of the dead mans own recklessness and
mixing up in an affair not his own.
About a mile beyond the place where
the Prince was killed the advancing line
was heavily attacked from concealed
trenches in belt OF timber leading out
at right angles from the river. The sup
ports were i'll column on the road close up
to the deplOyed line, and all were under
fire together. There was hasty deploy-
ment by the supports, of which my com
pany constituted part, and we advanced
in deployed line about 100 yards in the
rear of the firing line, our right flank ex-
changing shots with Filipinos across the
river to the right, who had not yet been
cleared out by the 22d. The latter's line
was almost n mile further back, and we
could hear the steady rattle of their Krags
S they advanced upon the heavy intrencll-
ments defending MaInta along the line
of railroad.
a bend in the stream congested our lines,
one directly behind the other and all of
them under fire from the front, to which
fire only the front line could reply. But
that was enough. Two companies did the
shooting and the rest of us yelled or said
things soldiers often say which are not
good TO print. Having captured the Polo
trenches and being so far ahead of the
right wing of the brigade, we were halted
and held for quite time until the Regul-
lars had cleared the enemy out of the re-
gion across the river.
LACK OF FILIPINO NERVE
AS the 22d advanced against the NAL
nta trenches they had to do it across 4
wide rice field perfectly open to the sweep
Of the enemy's fire. At a little rise in the
grOund.just before the Malinta Station was
reached the Aguinald0ists had constructed
some splendid trenches and had built pits
in front with sharpened stakes in them.
1t was their calculation that when the
Americans advanced to the attack these
pits would absorb their attention and de-
lay the advance, while the defenders
would slaughter them at WILL 1t was Il
beautiful theory, but it failed to work, be-
cause the Filipinos did not have the