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Show j General Pilar Killed. Manila, Dec. 11. General Gregorio del Pilar, commanding Aguinaldo's body guard, was killed by Major Peyton Pey-ton March's battalion of the Thirty-third Thirty-third infantry, in a fight eighteen miles northwest of Cervantes, December Decem-ber 3. According to reports which General Young obtained from escaped Spanish prisoners at Vigan several days ago, Major Marco left the coast where he was pursuing Aguinaldo, and encountered encount-ered General del Pilar on a fortified trail. They fought four hours, during which time seventy Pilipinos were killed and wounded. The American loss was one killed and six wounded. |