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Show XEARIX(J THE EXD VAR WITH FILIPINOS WILL SOON BE OVER. lighting of the fast 1 eiv Dttyn Has Heon t'nnt and Furious and the I ns'i rMi t are JSftlritf 4;ntlijul!y I!iiiiii'1 In Will Make Their Last HtitnU at Mdlulos. New York, March 27. The end of the war with the followers of Aguin-aldo Aguin-aldo Is in sijfht. Dispatches received from Manila state that the American army now surrounds fully 5, Ooo of the Insurgents and there is no possibility of their escape. This wa accomplished In a battle fought Saturday. The American Amer-ican losses in this engagement are e-sti-jnated at sixteen killed and ISO wounded. Fighting began at (i a. m., when an advance, was begun all along the lines from Ban Juan del Mone to Caloocan. MacArthur's entire division was in the fight, the brigades being commanded by Iirigadier-Generals II. G. Otis, Hale and Wheaton. The Nebraska and Colorado Col-orado regiments encountered the first strong resistance. This was at San Francisco del Monte, and surrounding trenches. The cavalry outflanked the enemy, w ho broke and ran, suffering severe loss. As our line swung northwest north-west and came to Talighan river, Whcaton's brigade moved out from Caloocan and swept the trenches directly di-rectly in front, killing hundreds of insurgents. in-surgents. Our line stretched along six miles of the south bank of the river, with the bridge at Caloocan destroyed. There were solid lines of insurgents in trenches on the other bank. Their bullets bul-lets cut limbs from the trees and beat up clouds of dust, as the Kansas regiment regi-ment boldly waded across and stormed the blockhouse of the enemy. The Kansas men almost swam, so deep was the water. They charged the trenches, dripping, with the utmost enthusiasm. It was such a charge as the Filipinos could make no stand against. They broke and ran for high ground. Meantime, Wheaton shelled the trenches on the left. Shattered bodies of insurgents were lifted in the air as our shells burst among them. General MacArthur, with his staff and artillery, artil-lery, swung in a circle to the rlghtand cut off the enemy's retreat to Pelo. The signal service kept him in communication commu-nication with all the brigades as they moved. The day's victory was a glorious glori-ous one. The fording of the river by the Kansas regiment under a terrific fire was the most heroic and thrilling spectacle of the war. The army was not checked at night by the enemy's strength, but perfected its lines to prevent the escape of the insurgent forces. The movement was arranged with the greatest care and foresight. General Hale's brigade was in front; behind it were massed H. G. Otis' and Hall's, while Wheaton's brigade was in the rear. The contending forces numbered about 12,000 each. The enemy were strongly entrenched in dense jungles, in which the Americans were compelled to force their way, after crossing a large open space, exposed to the iul strength of the insurgent fire. The effect of this plan was to drive a wedge through the heart of the insurgent army and effect its complete disorganization. disorgan-ization. This has been practically accomplished. ac-complished. Five thousand of the insurgents in-surgents are hemmed in near the village vil-lage of Pelo by Wheaton's brigade on the south, where it now rests, with MacArthur's force on the northeast. |