The National tribune., 1906-04-19
BATTLE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
N Young COmrade Relates for the Old a
Typical Scrap With Filipinos In the
Parkway Islands-Treachery Of n Ma
tive Woman Results in Her Death.

Comrade James IIanley Co b. 10th
l. >. Inf, writes from North Manches-
ter, Ind. and gives an account of an
interesting battle between Uncle Sans
hghting men in Khaki and force of
F1lipinos. a number of the soldiers in
his regiment We're sons of the old vets
of the war from 1861 to 1865, and in
herited their fighting qualities from
f, their sires.
Il want to tell the old comrades
some of our troubles in the Philippines
during the Bates expedition. We left
Manila Bay the night of Feb. -. the
! expedition consisted of the 10th, 45th
and one battalion of the 47th u. S. Inf.
| Our battalion Of the 10th disem barked
| in Legasfy Bay, and had q sorry Old
| time landing. The tide had gone out
| and our boats could not get anywhere
| to the beach through mud and water
about three feet deep. with five days
| rations in our haversacks. We Were
| in a fine plight when we reached the
shore, and as soon as we could scfapc
some of the mud from our garments
| Cos. a, Il and ID of the 40th fell into
line, and all that afternoon we waded
| through mire and boys until we came
in sight of the town of Libmonan. We
were allowed to rest and eat a few
bareback when we arrived within three
miles of the town. Then we sent Il
Philippine guide we had with us into
the place to find out what the enemy
were doing.
when he came back we could not
get any information from him, only
that there were lots of soldiers over
there. In the meantime there were a
lot of white flags flying about the front
of the town and a large one on the
stone church that stood at the edge of
the place. We deployed our little force
4 ftln ffClyt Int, of y.{n fla11 n n
half mile from the town and COM
| menced our advance. We had not pro-
ceeded more than 200 yards when the
Filipinos opened fire on us. At the
first volley we dropped in the rice, and
and they sent another volley over our
heads. Then we received orders to
advance again, which we did with a
| will. We also fixed bayonets. Then
the Filipinos began to jump up from
the rice and came at us, and the way
we poured 1T into them was not slow.
When we got within about 100 yards
OF them they began to break and run.
1t was getting too warm for them.
Well. the way we poured cold steel
into them was a caution.
THE fight lasted more than an hour,
and In that time we killed about 130
Filipinos Just as the sun was going
down the bugle sounded cease firing
and we were glad to hear it. So closed
our first fight.
"Our Colonel was with US on this
trip, and an unusual incident happened
to him. just as we were nearing the
town a Filipino woman stepped In front
of the Colonel, and fired three shots at
him at a distance Of not more than 80
PAGES. She failed to hit him. Maj. Nc
Kenny witnessed the incident, and
opened fire on the woman with his re-
volver. 1t required three shots to ST.
lence her battery but the third shot
got her, and / guess she is good now.
We buried the dead the next morning,
and stayed in camp all day until we
were relieved by a company Of the
18th. Then We moved on to another
town, where we found some more Of
the 45th. After resting there few
days we took to the mountains. where
we spent month hunting out the Fill
pinos and making them as good as pos
sibIe"