Show HOT SKIRMISHES AROUND MANILA f Insurgents Attempt to BreakThrough Break-Through American Lines J SHELLED By WARSHIPS AND UTTERLY ROUTED t Lieutenant French of Montana and Other Volunteers Killed Simultaneous Attacks Made Upon I the Americans at Various Points Natives Threatened to Burn the Walled City of Manila Troops Clear the Streets and Take Precautions Pre-cautions Against Further Trouble To Be a Aggressive Campaign Manila Feb 23With daylight this morning the enemy commenced worrying wor-rying tactics at various parts of the American line apparently to the purpose I pur-pose of withdrawing attention from affairs fairs inside the city An attempt was made to rush through our extreme left near Calooian but I was promptly iheiked by a hot and effective musketry and artillery tire tireIn In the meantime small bodie t rh els evidently some of those engaged las night in the cowardly work at Ton < lo spread out between the city and the outposts Eery available man was sent to drive them away with the result re-sult the morning that thee was desultory tiring an From S to 1030 a m the United States double turreted monitor Monadnock joined in the engagement hurling ten inch shells over the American lines into bodies of the enemy a indicated by the signal corps So far our casualties are one man killed and ten men wounded At 1 oclock there were sharp engagements en-gagements at the Chine cemetery and at San Pedro MacatI almost simultaneously sim-ultaneously but the artillery fire from both positions drove the enemy bak From the high towers iff tho city fires can be seen burning at different points outside Some rf these are probably prob-ably due to the iltinadnocks shells I is currently reported that the natives na-tives have thceatenatlt fl iiurn Esco lata and the walled ty tonight Scores of rebels have been arrested in the Toncto district A bnd9 < 86rsixty N eis having two carloads of arms and accoutrements was captured in a house Business is temporarily suspended sus-pended MANILA STREETS CLEARED Major General Otis today issued a general order directing all the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Manila until otherwise ordered or-dered to confine thein eiv to their homes after 7 oclock n the evening when the streets will b cleared by the police The general 1 air > warns mcer diarieB and says they will b severely del wih Extraordinary precautions have been taken for the suppression of further trouble which is threatened < to take place in the city tonight But it is generally gen-erally believed last night experience will ment effectively quell the disturbing eIe Fire has been burning in the Tomlo district all day and has been clearing the residents out of many houses in the outskirts from which the enemy previously fired on the Americans A cloud of smoke hovered over the city today conveying the impression to the people about the bay and in the outside out-side districts that the whole city is burning The rebels between the city and the outposts are being smoked out this afternoon and driven toward the beach bnarpshooters at various parts of the line are very annoying but otherwise there has been no further excitement since the frustration of the mornings attack Lieutenant S French of Eugene company com-pany L First Montana volunteers and Private Oscar Felton of company C South Dakota volunteers were killer and two other Dakotans were w oundetf |