| Show SIXTEEN BOLOMEN SHOT Insurgents Make an Attack on Company E I Ninth Infantry and Are Routed I w Americans Had a Corporal and Scout Killed and One Prjvatc Wounded Capt Hall of the TwentyFirst Infantry Has Had i Four Engagements With Rebels in Batangas Province fManila Nov 17 Company E of the Ninth infantry lCaptT P H Shouffel won attacked by fifty bolomen and several insurgents armed with riflca atn point six miles from Tarangnan In the island lor Samar The Insurgents tried to rush the Americans but falling to accomplish their purpose they quickly broke and scattered The men of the Ninth had a corporal and a scout killed and one private wounded Sixteen of the bolomen werekllled while tho riflemen escaped S J The Hotchklss rapIdfire guns will be sent to the southern Islands for operations opera-tions in the mountains I 4J FOUR SEPARATE FIGHTS I Capt Herman Hall ofthe Twentyfirst Infantry has been scouting for several sev-eral days in Batangas province Ho had four separate engagements with the Insurgents there Judging from the firing on these occasions Capt Hall estimates esti-mates the force of each band of the rebels at from thirty to fifty They made no attempt to rush Capt Halls party Capt Halls scout resultedIn the capture cap-ture of ono insurgent officer and COOOO pounds of rice PRAISE FOR CAPT HARTMAN Gen Sumner commander of the district of Southern Luzon highly prals Capt Hartman and his troop of the First cavalry who last Wednesday mornIng morn-Ing attacked 400 Insurgents intrenched In rifle pits in Eatangas provlnce and routed them Gen Summer says the blow then administered JbyOapL Hartman Hart-man is the most severe the Insurgents have suffered since he Gen Sumner assumed command of his district OPPOSES INLAND SEA ROUTE t Owing to the fact that the United Ctates transports Sheridan Waldron and Hancock all met with accidents Inthe inland Honcock sea of Japan nnd the returning re-turning party of visiting congressmen is consequently now delayed In the latter country the transport Thomas which arrived at Manila November 12th will be immediately dispatched to Japan Gen Chaffee opposes United States transports trans-ports In tutur passing through the Inland sea |
