Show UONG ONG FORGED FORCED MARCH MARCHi j i and anti Regi Regiments Regiment Regiments ments ment Take Tate Fart lart 4 f t ENCIRCLE t WIDE WE a BY GEN YOUNGS I EXPEDITION Official Report Tells of the Hardships Hardships of f This Campaign In Northern Lu rhe Cleared the Way For or MacArthurs Advance Filipinos Are Ae Driven Back Backe e Washington May 21 The war war de department department department has made public the report of Brigadier Briga ier General Young command commanding ing a provisional cavalry brigade of his campaign ign in northern Luzon from Oct 11 1 ta to to Jan 1 last during which he herode herode herode rode entirely around the opposing forces f of Aguinaldo Aginaldo and MacArthur a distance of about miles mies and har harassed harassed harassed assed and broke up the insurgent forces so that MacArthur was enabled to move forward without without any formidable organized resistance General General Youngs command was com corn composed composed posed at various times of portions of the Third and Fourth cavalry the battalion batalon of native scouts under Major Batson the Twenty sec second second ond Thir and infantry According to the report General Young started from San Fernando de Pam panga on Oct 11 1 moved up the east eat bank of the river passed around the flanks fanks of the enemy who were scattered between the river and andr railroad r iro d struck the sea sea on the west coast co st of Luzon to the north of both having accomplished the mission of protecting the right and andrear andrear andrear rear of MacArthurs MacArthurs forces Side Ride Pull Ful of Hardships This ride through the Ule coun country country country try was General Gener l Young says accompanied accompanied by many m ny hardships and a deal of sharp and at times exceptionally fierce fighting The attack atack upon and f capture of San Isidro by Major Ball Ballance Bal Ballance ance and a 8 bUlon of the Twenty second infantry gained gIne special men mention menton mention tion ton and nd high commendation in Gen General Generl Oral eral erl Youngs report It I is the finest and and most efficient battalion I have ever seen sen in the Amer American American ican army ary said sid he and notwithstanding standing a deplorable scarcity and total absence at time of food clothing and shelter sheler it I did most mot remarkable work in the face of the greatest dif difficulties difficulties General Young pat mentions I the deplorable Condition of the roads and trails trail At one point he says of all al the sloughs of despond depond we waded I I through though this was vas the most diabolical I and the rain was almost continuous for o Ig t hours hour In another nother part parthe parthe he mentions m ons a a march marh of ot ovar OV ov r twenty tw t miles DL eed girt deep Filipinos Generally ETee m iee e Although there was at times imes nes stub stubbo bo n resistance rs by the Filipinos the rapid and aDd complete manier I in which they they were disposed of at ab some some points was most ludicrous At Tambo Fambo Bar BarrIe Barnec rIe the ile report states tates a company c of insurgents I was attacked and dispersed so sp s effectually that they were w were re never neverseen neverseen seen se n again agan I Some distance from where General G nerl Young was wa received by the I natives with great rejoicing Major Swigert with wih a squadron of the Third cavalry encountered at nightfall an insurgent column strong following in the tIe rear of Ag pack train The unexpected approach says the report report of the big horses with wih big men astride galloping madly through the dust with the troopers yelling like madmen m soon finds the natives officers and men crawling I into I to the thickets ets in wholesale retreat throwing their arms away |