Show uv t tm 1 Regiment Regime lt is Kept Busy Fight Fighting Fighting ing in the tIle Filipinos Fi p os HOT ATTACK ON OF BATAC EIGHT BIGHT AMERICANS OP OF THE ENEMY C Islanders rs Fight Desperately in a Conflict During As Assault Assault Assault sault on Town Miners Are Cap Captured Captured and and Bind Little Gold GoldI I Cor of tho tha cl d Pr Manila ManUa P I May L IThe The Ia last t two to I weeks have s seen en a general spread of ot II rebel activity throughout Luzon and andI even e en in and into the other islands I which has been sharply offset oft et by im immediate immediate immediate I mediate retaliation The rebels have baye attacked by day and by night several I of th the 26 towns we wo Five hundred dead d ad Filipinos would be a 0 conservative estimate of their theil losses during the past fifteen and a L number of smaller engagements that have passed unnoticed would bring the I total UD up to at least A remarkable I feature is 1 that during the fighting ft wh W f tt r 1 in this heavy havy j vy los Ios lo to the rebels the American forces hive have not had more than six men killed and fifteen fifteen teen wounded Colonel Howse Tells of Actions Perhaps the best example of the rebels activity and Md the way the Amer Aier Americans r deal with them Jg Is given in the recent report r from Lieutenant Colonel Howse H of or the infantry in which he ho describes the recent fight fighting ft ht lug ing in in the province of North On April 16 Lieutenant Duncan Dunean of 01 the with sight eight men met insurgents and ond after a short fight re returned returned turned to Batac and reported ported to C Conel Couch 1 onel ouch Howse The colonel withdrew troops from front the town and when l insurgents entered he surrounded the place A fight ensued In which Filipinos were killed The official re report report report port of Colonel Howse How e reads The attack atta k on Batac on April 16 was precipitated by three causes ca S the t imprisonment of several insurgent leaders Captain Dodds punishment of or orthe the rebels the day previous when fifty fiftysix fiftysix fiftysix six were killed and Lieutenant Dun Duncans Duncans Duncans cans attack on the enemy that same morning Duncan met them in the foothills and with eight men dispersed 20 of whom seventy had rifles rides He killed twentynine and captured He exhausted his ammunition and fell back fighting all the way to Batac where Captain Rollins prepared for the insurgents Filipinos Fight Desperately When the insurgents reached Batac their force had increased to 00 or who made a determined attack It was necessary for our troops to charge the thie enemy in their positions and two Americans were killed and three wounded At times the fighting was hand to hand and the desperation of ot fanatics was shown b the enemy By Bya a 8 forted ored march Lieutenant Thaler with cavalrymen and ammunition ammunition tion reached Batac at 2 24 p m in At 4 p m in the enemy withdrew but soon were greatly reinforced The They set fire to the town and under cover of the dense smoke fought stubbornly At p m in Lieutenant Haight with troop L of the Third cavalry arrived and the enemy wa was soon driven off Their loss were killed and wounded and prisoners This same day Captain French with men met the enemy near and killed twentythree On April 17 natives twenty of whom were armed with ri rifles rifles fles and the balance with bolos and clubs entered the town of to attempt an uprising We killed forty and captured eighty and drove off the balance The steamer owned by a French trading company of which M Andrew Belgian consul at Manila is president has been fined for blockade running Sha un unloaded unloaded loaded a cargo of rice at and paid the insurgents for a cargo of hemp It is asserted that the practice of holding communication with the rebel force is suite nuite common and that there are other transgressors Miners Joiners Are Killed A party of miners that left Manila early id lii January for the southern isi islands ands has been captured by rebels Re Reliable Reliable liable news comes from northern Lu Luzon Luzon zon that two prospectors have been murdered by the tribesmen The native mayor of the village Santa SantaRosa SantaRosa Rosa is said to have instigated the crime and to have become possessed of the mens money ana ad arms More or less organized parties of prospectors are leaving Manila every month and returning with tales of the hardships they have suffered but there is little eviden of any of them having found gold paying quantities quantities ties The railroad has been handed over to its English own owners owners ers who are now operating it When road was under military control American engineers firemen and brakemen were Installed and paid American wages in gold For engi engineers engineers firemen SO 60 and brakemen 49 40 per month was paid Th The first act of the English owners was to discharge these American employers employees I and to reemploy natives who are paid j J I respectively 40 80 30 and O a month in Mexican money |