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Show FILIPINOS SURPRISE THE GARRISON AND SWEEP TOWN Manila, May 31, 5 a. m. On Tuesday : night the insurgents rushed San Miguel de Mayumo, province of Bulucan, Luzon, Lu-zon, garrisoned by three companies of the Thirty-fifth volunteer infantry. They swept through the surprised town, shooting right and left, killing five Americans and wounding seven. Captain Charles D. Roberts and two privates are missing. No Filipino dead were discovered. San Miguel de Mayumo is a few miles from Manila. While a band under un-der the escort of troops of the Forty-sixth Forty-sixth infantry was moving from Hang to Silang, within twenty-five miles of Manila, it was attacked by Ladrones, three of the party being killed. Lieutenant Jens Estedje of company L, Forty-seventh volunteers, commanding command-ing a scouting party in the southern part of Albay province, had several engagements- with the insurgents, in I which seventeen of the enemy were killed, and twenty-three, including a captain, were captured. Six explosive bombs and a number of valuable insurgent in-surgent documents also fell into the hands of the Americans. The scouts burned the town of Yubi. the headquarters headquar-ters of the rebels. Sergeant Brickley was killed during a slight engagement near Higmo. province of Albay. yesterday. yes-terday. Scouts of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-fourth regiments have captured thirty-two rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition am-munition in the Pangasinin province. Major March's van of the Thirty-third Thirty-third regiment has arrived at Apaari from Benguet. after the hardest of mountain traveling. The men were exhausted ex-hausted and ragged, having followed persistently on the supposed Aguinaldo trail. They had several encounters with the rebels, but found no sign of Aguinaldo. |
