Show = I Itl N TO RItLS iI i I I Fipinos s Compelcd C to I1c I V ouAdvance of Alieri V V cans in Saw i S I GATBAlOGAN V I fIED I Insurgent I General Attempts to Destroy the Town V V MADE A DESPERATE FI tiT V r Kobbes Expedition has Occupied 7 Permanently and Garrisoned Nino Towns with the For ythird and I FortySeventh Regiments m tho I Islands of Luzon l eyte and Samar I During the Trip1 1000 Insurgents Armed with Rifles 1 and 5000 Arme dl < with Wooden Swords Bows I nh Arrows we0 Encounterc I WC7o Encountercdyrho Troops Eal > d Seventylive 7he Americar15 had One Man 1illcd and Nine Wounded Ameriu nnd Capture Cap-ture S9 ° ° ° in Gold ana Forty MuzzledLoadinei Brass IIuzledLoadlng I Clnon I l Mantlll Fcb 5 BrlgGcn Kobbes cxpcditlon in the Island Of Luzon Leytc and Samar has O uPled ocfupied permanently perma-nently and garrisoned nlnc towns with nenty tho poirlythird and Fortyseventh regiments regi-ments This has Ptocci on the market 1SOOOP bales of hemp One thousand Insur ntg armed with arme I rinfst and over 5000 arncd with Wooden s bows and swvn > arnlvs were encoun 011 clrlnff I the cnUlVi i tenleI ns l J trip f r 1hhhiPh Ies8 c ER OF NArriS KILT E D llipl I I I pops killed seyentjrfivo natives I 0 that ti whom hadrincs The others 1rest be ffliod wIth v > < ten swords The rk t Amfit b losses rc OI1C man killed and nlilinfifiJl Hinded The Americans captured 9000 in gold the enemys money and forty muzzleloading brass cannon At Calbayog and Samar the enemy evacuated the towns the Americans chasing fighting and scattering them to the mountains At Catbalogan Lukban the Tagalog General fired the place with kerosene just before the Americans landed and then fought with cannon and rifles from the hills encircling the town for two hours When the Filipinos were driven out the Americans did their best to save the town fighting the lire for soy P 4 4 eral hours Thirty stone and seventy other hocus half the business portion of the place were consumed The soldiers sol-diers prevented thelire from spreading The next day MaJ Allen with three companies of the Fortythird regiment I pursued Lukban to the mountain fastnesses I fast-nesses and thence to the coast town where Lukban was heading In bopeSvOf escape Lukban by taxing the natives has accumulated 100000 In gold His capture is probable At Tacloban island of Lcytc thc enemy en-emy evacuated the town and the America Amer-ica us pursued them to the his Sev oral lleolilg noncombatants were killed including three women V V INTRENCHED AT PALOV I At Palo seven miles distant the enemy en-emy was found Intrenched and resisted resist-ed LleuU Johnston and twelve scouts I of the Fortythird regiment drove out 350 of the enemy and captured the town The insurgents Jn these towns were mostly VlHiiyans who had been impressed im-pressed into the service of thc Tagalog leadeia from Luzon The Vlsayans appear Indifferent or sullenly antagonistic to the American occupation The Tagalog chiefs Influenced t Influ-enced them against us but when they I perceived we are much more powerful I than the Tagalogs and Intend to maintain I main-tain garrisons in order to open the Islands I Isl-ands to commerce it la believed the i rebel party will lose Its popularity The Americans are gladly accepted by the Inhabitants who are dally returning re-turning to the towns There Is 0 rush iof commercial vessels from Manila to these new ports |