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Show The United States punboat Helena and other gunboats have been shelling Malabon, about a mile northeast of Caloocan, for several hours. The insurgents in-surgents made a fierce resistance to the American advance up the railroad to Malinta. In addition to the fatal wounding' of Colonel Egbert, several men of the Twenty-second infantry and several men of the Oregon and Kansas regiments were killed. Evidently Evi-dently anticipating a bombardment by the fleet, l.CmO rebels vacated Malabon last uight, leaving a few to burn the town. The Third artillery, acting- as infantry, infan-try, with two guns of the Utah artillery artil-lery and the Kansans had a sharp fight east of Malinta. The Americans had but slight losses. Five Filipinos were found dead and several were takeu , prisoners. |