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Show Utah Boya at Manila. , ,T I Oapt.Ypunggot hia Utab. battery iq-to iq-to potltion, wijh.fioun difOcnlty, pa, account of the mudt .but hesoonvfas; nlating ., the - eaemy?l ranks; . The' Americans were outnumbered, buthejr: .did ijetyjeldanqchaiici theirufirefwae( fearfullj dtstractivu. Aftef etnbborn fight th Spaniard were beted uffoni the rup .' They re-formed, however, ad aaln barg4. ,Bv this lime the Americans wre ia poeition and under .cpaapltte'discipTitie, and their fire wm all thfa'vinofV deildly. They 'ponred1 volley ftfr volley wherever the Span jeb rifle flashed and4 again 'the .enemy! retreat. flfriffrlrU a th'id attack, but it waeyejy ,tfccbe and aomeft,be' Americana, pireued Uieir retreat doing. Bchfxocution. ,', . TheoMiwas more ,tha onlinarily. dif proportionate, though, exact Spaaieh1 tiguree( cannot be 'obtained. Th;e British1 Admiral has gcnerallyeetimatcd that in1 Manilabetwenthre hundred and Jour hundred Spanish were killed and oearjy, one thousand wounded. These fignjee are altogether possible, oven'ln a night, engagement, asj there were, between, three, and four hours of continuous fighting, some of it hand to hand and alj of it at murderous range. The Amorican loss was as followe: sixteen killed and about fifty wounded. It mUBt he remembered that there wero from 3000 to 3500 Spaniards in this attack at-tack and only 000 Americans, and that the Spanish were veteran troops, while all , WwcoraiiHJeeV ;' W the 'def e ns'e ere;AmerIcan'-voiunwfl?W"JW8RP for tho first time. But the American victory was complete. |