| Show AGUINALDO MAY SURRENDER SOON 4 Will Quit When Americans Capture Malolos + ARTHURS FORCES RESTED YESTERDAY t Itlovement AgaInst the Fllipino Capital Cap-ital Commences Today Troops start This Iorning With Four Days Rations and 200 Rounds of Ammunition Have Captured aneBulacan a City of 25000 Inhabitants Destroyed By the Insurgents Americans 0 Suffer From the Intens Heat t Manila March 2SThe prisoners say Aguinaldo declared that If the Americans Ameri-cans can take the FlllDIno capital he wi1l surrender General MacArthurs division advanced ad-vanced nearly two miles without pn countering opposition this morning On approaching Bulacan a town of 25000 people he halted preparatory to attacking at-tacking it The heat was intense being 90 degrees on the coast and fully 100 degrees in the Interior it made the Americans sutler a great deal In spIte I of the heat hoW < ver every man was eager to proceed toward the enemy General 1acArthur and his army are resting on the Dlain beyond Iarllao after three days scrambling in the rush fording rivers and charging trenches in the blazing sun The men are tired but are in splendid spirIts The engIneers are repairing bridges the rebels having failed to destroy the ironwork and the railroad is kept busy hurrying sUPDlies to the front The country to 11alolos Is level with frequent fre-quent streams and patches of wood but there are no more jungles The American troops will advance at daylight taking four days rations with them and having 200 rounds of ammunition ammu-nition in theIr belts They expect to take Bocave on the railroad to the east of Bulacan tomorrow It is a difficult dif-ficult position protected by streams The AmerIcan line is about 1200 yards from that of the rebels Desultory Desul-tory shots were exchanged today Tho American reorts show that twenty men were killed and sixtvone wounded on our side yesterday The Dakota regIment lost ten men hilled und had thirtyseven wounded According taprisoners in the hands of the Americans Aguinaldos generals Garcia Tofrco and Pacheco were with the Filipinos yesterday and drove their followers into the first aggressIve demonstration dem-onstration The rebels attempted too charge across the plain east of the railroad rail-road but the AmerIcans charged to meet them and the Filipinos bolted after a few shots leaving several men killed on the Held The Filipino prison 4 ers further declare that the rebels have lost all taste for fighting and that theIr officers have to keep them in line by beating them with swords BRAVERY OF AMERICANS One of the mot brilliant and costly achievements of the campaign was the charge of Major Howards battalion across the river Advancing at the doublequick they found the river beneath be-neath them and splashed across with a yell swimming and wading with bullets bul-lets spattering in the water and rushed upon the rebel trenches Ten men were killed and eleven were wounded in the charge At the capture of lIarilao there were several incidents showIng the bravery of our troops Some Filipinos were entrenched en-trenched on an island in a bend of the river The Americans approached in a triangular formation with the Third I artillery in the apex and the Kansas and Pennsylvania regiments formIng the sides Colonel Funston of the Ran sls regiment called for volunteers to swim the river Twenty men crossed under fire and secured materials with wliih a crossing was eventually effected ef-fected I Major Bell of General lacArthurs staff with company I of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-Vania regiment and Lieutenant Abernathy Aber-nathy and ten men engaged In similar exploits After the Filipinos has raised the i Yhlte flag many of them attempted to I run and several were Ohot for so doing do-ing In the churchyard of lari1ao the Americans found thirty newl made graves of FilipInos and a dozen bodies were seen drIfting don the river with gruesom wounds The prisoners are digging their former comrades graves Many huts are smoking ruins having been burned by their inhabitants The Americans are not burnIng any build ing ingOur Our troops captured four Spaniards who wcre fighting with the insurgents Gerelal MacArthur was under a heavy = lire e3tETday A detachment ninetysix Filipino prisoners was escorted into Manila today to-day Their appearance arousei treat interest as they were marched from the railroad depot to the prison The rebels have unloaded about 50D men from a train half a mile In front of Gpneral lIacArthus forces with the object of reinforcing the Filipino garrisons at BuJacan and Guiginto on Cither side of the railroad leading to Malolo The fat that the railroad is in op ration from here to our front facilitates facili-tates the transportation of supplies to the troOs Before the break in the road W2 repaired the transportation of supplies was very uncertain All is qUiet in front of the lines of Generals 0ens1ne and Hall A battalion of the California regiment which has been landed at EnrIque island is-land of Negros has been received with every manifestation of joy on the part of the natives The command of the island of Negros has been formally transferred from General Miller to I Colonel von Vazah of the EIghteenth infantryBEPOItTS |
