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Show FILIPINOS FIRE ON A FLAG OF THUCE. Adoption of Tactics I sed In Fighting Indians In-dians In the United States Saves General Gen-eral Lawton's Forces From Great Lous. Washington, May 7. Detailed reports re-ports of the work of Major-General Lawton's expedition show that harder hard-er fighting took place during the early part of the week than earlier accounts indicated. In the attack on San Rafael Ra-fael the American forces were met with a heavy fire from a large number of rebels who were concealed in the , jungles on all sides. It was only in the adopting of tactics followed in Indian In-dian fighting in the United States, every ev-ery man for himself, that saved the division from great loss. General Lawton, as usual, was at the head of his staff. Scott's battery demolished a stone-fronted trench at short range. The insurgent leaders, Gregorio and Pio del Pilar who had 800 men in Bali-nag, Bali-nag, retreated when General Lawton appeared at the town. Chief of Scouts Young, with eleven men, entered Bal-Inag Bal-Inag ahead of the army and rang the church bells to announce that they had possession of the city. General Lawton, when attacking in force outside of Balinag, saw women and children in the rebel trenches and sent Captain Case in advance with a white flag to warn the insurgents to remove the non-combatants. When within 500 yards of the trench two volleys were fired at Captain Case's party. Chief of Scouts Young whose bravery bra-very at Balinag was most notable, served as an Indian Scout under Major Ma-jor General 0. O. Howard in his campaign cam-paign in the Northwest in 1876. The work of Young's scouts was a feature of the expedition On Wednesday, the 3rd, the men encountered some Filipinos Fili-pinos beyond Balinag and drove them until their 150 rounds of ammunition had been reduced to fifteen. They were about to retire when Lieutenant Boyd with a troop of the Fourth cavalry cav-alry came up with them and chased the enemy into San Miguel. There are 2000 Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos at San Miguel. Mi-guel. They are served with 5 cents worth of rice daily and are compelled to work hard on the rebel defenses. Several hundred of the Filipino wounded are at San Miguel. The insurgents are sending their women and children to the Bianaona-batte Bianaona-batte mountains. |