| Show FILIPINOS I KEEP AMERICANS BUSY Constant Fighting Along the Lines at manila r REBELS DRIVEN BACK WITH GREAT LOSSES T Sixth Artillery Battery In a Hot S Position 4 Sharpshooters Keep Up a Constant FireTreacherous Attempt to Assassinate American Under a Flag of TT11CeMany Men Prostrated Pros-trated By the Intense HeatIn surgents Busy Strengthening Their Defenses r Manila March 7A detachnient or General Hales and General Vheatons brigades was engaged for to houra this mornIng clearing the country In front of their lines on both sides of the river the enemy concentrating with the apparent purpose of cutting off the garrison at the waterworks The rebels reb-els bolted at the first sign of thE adVance ad-Vance but they separated Into small bodIes whenever the covert afforded opportunity and kept up n running fire By a series of rapId advances followed by flank movements the enemy en-emy was completely routed as tar out as Guadalupe on the right and almost to Marlquini on the left The casualties reported are Captain OBrien of company F First Wyoming volunteers and two men slightly I wounded The rebel loss was heavy No rebels were visible at noon This afternoon General Hales brigade continued the work ot driving out the rebels from the country between the reservoir and the waterworks a distance dis-tance of about three miles The country coun-try Is now clear on the left of the river but the enemy is still In front of General Gen-eral Wheatons line Near San Petro MacaU the have been attempting to make the position of the Sixth artillery on the hills untenable un-tenable their sharpshooters keeping up a constant lire aU day Private Loveo company C Wash Ington volunteers was killed by a stray bUllet Major Bell Seventh United States cavalry Private Young company com-pany M Twentieth Infantry Private Curran company H Twentieth infer try and PrIvate Parks company I First Wyoming volunteers ere wounded today TREACHERY OF REBELS S This morning the enemy in front of General Ovenshlnes dIvision displayed a flag of truce but retired when LIeutenant LIeu-tenant Koehler with two men advanced i to meet It This afternoon they again showed a white flair and again two om n 1 nn 5 5 uu 5 SS S SS UUHUU H Utll the Americans were witWn about 200 yards of the rebels the latter dragged rifles from behind their backs and opened op-ened fire upon them but fortunately without effect Hawthornes battery fired two shells killIng several of the enemy In accordance with instructions to the land and naval force a general order or-der was Issued today Instructing the troops to give particular attention tot to-t e lives and property of all German Austrian Dutch Italian and Portuguese Portu-guese residents and wIth the cooperation coop-eration of the resident German consul to give aid and assistance wherever necessar At 3 oclock this afternoon the temperature tem-perature was 81 degrees Fahrenheit and the heat was iatense especially on the lines where twentfive men were temporarily prostrated during the day Manila March SThe rebels are busily bus-Ily preparing their defenses at various points and are most aggressive near San Pedro l1acatI where their sharpshooters sharp-shooters maintain a persistent annoyance annoy-ance Scotts battery on the hilltop is the center of fire from both sides of the river I General Hale withdrew his outposts i from the ldft bank of the stream and Is i now occupying his original position Further trouble Is probable In the vicinity vi-cinity of the waterworks when the rebels reb-els rally but it would be almost an impossibility im-possibility for them to interfere with the water supply owing to the strength S of our position The weather is several degrees hotter today TRANSPORTATION pnOBLEM Dispatch of Reinforcements to Otis May Be Delayed 4 Washington March 7The purpose of the administration to send large reinforcements re-inforcements to General OtIs at Ia nna presents a serious problem of transportation trans-portation to the offices of the quartermasters quarter-masters department About 7500 troops are under ordeTS tcs prepare for transportation trans-portation to Manila by way of San Francisco and the Pacific ocean The only troopships avaIlable for the service ser-vice are the Arizona S ndla Newport Morgan City and Zealandia The last named Is the only one at San Francisco all the others being In the OrIent The Zealandla is now undergoing repairs and will not be ready for sea for three weeks She is a small steamer wIth a carrying capacity of only GOO men The steamer City of Pueblo which bas been used in the government transport service ser-vice has been reclaimed by her owners I on the exPiration of the contract time as they have refused to renew the contract con-tract The maIn dependence of the government govern-ment therefore Is the transportation of reinforcements to General Otis rests upon the transports now in eastern waters According to the latest advices ad-vices these vessels will sail for San Francisco during the next few days Their schedules are as follows Leave Hongkong ArIzona March 9 leave Nagasaki Newport March 10 Scandla March 11 Morgan CIty March 12 It will take these vessels about a month to make the long trip across tim Pacific In addition to these vessels three other transports wilt be available for the service between the Philippines and the United States The Grant She < Idaq and Sherman are now in various stages Of the route between New YorK and Manila AT WAIERWORXS Lively Skirmish Resulting In the Enemys Defeat Nl1W York March 7A dispatch to the Herald from ManIla says After the insurgent had been dlhen oII last nIght from In front of Mariquina tie L tame back 50 strong and cut off a coin pany of the First Nebraska vciuxiteera vOlunter This morning General Hale sent out three cmpanlcS of the Nerak reg Iment and two compaie of the Second Oregon to dislodge them The enemy who were holding a strong position amcftig the rocks rued excelet vole sat s-at the advancing Americana but the 1ater by 3 flank movement drove the Fipjnos ever the hills No sooner Wl5 this fight well underway under-way tan the Insurgents to the south of the waterworlt knoWin that the forces there had been wkene by sending troops to 1Iaquina attacked the wateork in the ret Their object ob-ject was to cut off the pumpIng station staton but they did not succeed Their fire was heavy and our small loss was due slely to the bad marksmanship marks-manship of the Filipinos The eneYs dead numbered twenty Returns noW In how lv Americans wounded The insurgents a placing guns in positon at varIus points gn Th opInIon of all the prominent me in ManIa Is that the military force of the insurget anarchy mus be broken before a stale government can be es tabHShed in the islands |
