Show I TH PHILIPPINES Rebels Are Once More Reported Defeated De-feated Madrid Feb 19A dispatch from Manila capital of the Philliplne islands states that the Spaniards have won a brilliant victory over the insurgents insur-gents and inflicted a crushing blow upon the rebellion The troops attacked at-tacked the rebel stronghold at Sllang which was desperately defended by a large force of insurgents The fighting was without material advantage tc either side until the troops were ordered or-dered to storm the rebels The command com-mand was obeyed with alacrity The rebels made a brief strong stand against the onrush of the troops and then those who were able to do so fled precipitately pre-cipitately in the direction of Ymus which is now the last rallying point of the insurgents The loss of the troops t is not stated but the number of rebels killed is placed at 500 |