Show SWARMS KITH WITH BANDS BIOS OF BE REBELS t I Situation Situations is Serious Seri us in the Isle of Ley Leyte te c HD FIGHT REPORTED DIFFICULTY IN I cry C iii GO Isle of f Leyte March 2 Lieutenant Steele Stele with wit twenty men theW of the regiment has ha made a fierce f engagement with wih insurgents on the upper Layog L yog river In this island The enemy enem numbering rifles rifle and the combined bands of Kaple and ad Espino Espina were strongly entrenched but were defeat defeated defeat defeated ed The American casualties were Private ate vate te John Crimmins of the and ald two native scouts scout killed kled North of a line lne drawn dran from to affairs in Leyte are satis satisfactory sats satisfactory factory factor Few bels are ar left in that district distrct schools schoos ave ve been established esta bUshed in which English is taught business has ba been resumed the lands are being cultivated and there th e is considerable ship building South of this line lne how however however however ever the garrisons are arc ar insufficient and ad the situation is more serious The country swarms swanS with wih bands of rebels and the real work of America American occupation pation is just beginning |