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Show peaceItalkish F1LIPINOSF1REUPON AMERICAN SCOUTS FROM AMBUSH. The Utah, Montana and Kansa Volunteers Bout Eight Hundred Rebels Twenty Americans are Wounded. Washington, May 36. The Filipinos appear to be talking peace, and at the same time are looking for a fight, as will appear from the following dispatch dis-patch from Manila, under date of May 24: Generals MacArthur and Funston, with the Kansas and Montana regiments, regi-ments, and the Utah battery, have dispersed 800 insurgents who were entrenched en-trenched on the railroad beyond San Fernando, near San Arita. The American scouts were fired upon from the trenches unexpectedly and withdrew. The firing was heard at San Fernando, and General MacArthur assembled his troops and marched quickly after the scouts. The Montana Mon-tana regiment flanked the trenches on the left and the Kansas regiment attacked at-tacked the enemy's right flank, General Gener-al Funston leading the charge at the double quick. The insurgent loss was large, many prisoners were captured, and it is reported re-ported that twenty Americans were wounded. |