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Show I MET A WARM RECEPTION. nilptnoo Allempl lo (Ileal t n Asnerlean I forro nl Hon fornahdo Washington, June 18 The follow, ling advices have bten received from Manila underdate of June 10 Aftercuttlng the railroad and telegraph tele-graph at Apallt seven mile south, for the purpose of severing connection, the rebels attacked (lenerat Mac Arthur's Ar-thur's lines at San Fernando al 4 30 this morning 1 hey met with an unexpectedly un-expectedly warm reception and were repnlaed with a loss of aeventy-five killed, thirty prisoners and many wounded The rebel force, rstlmatcd to have numbered 6000 men adt anced steadily from the Jungle north of the city and then dlvded. with the evident purpose of surrounding the American Tho outposts of the Iowa regiment discovered discov-ered the enemy, and retired to their lines, where the entire division awaited await-ed in an Intrenched position The Kansas and Iowa regiment received re-ceived the first shock of the attack. Iteservlng their flro until tho enemy waa within alx hundred yarda, the first volley of the American hit the rebels, who returned the Ore wildly, the restof thelrllne falling to advance Tha American, who thoroughly en-Joyed en-Joyed the novelty of the situation of awaiting an attach, sallied forth, and the Insurgents thereupon turned and tied into the Jungle Our loss waa fourteen men wounded, and the majority major-ity of them aro only slightly hurt. (lenernl Funaton'a brigade of Kan-an Kan-an and Montana, and lleneral llata'a brigade, the seventeenth regiment and the Iowa regiment, constituted the force engaged Agulnaldo Is reported to havo personally per-sonally conducted tho attack, and preparation were mado for several daya to bring forward troop from Candaba, and others from Dagupaa were traneporled by rail. |