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Show IIA1TLK AT l,AS I'INAS INBURQENTS RESIST DCai'BH-ATELY DCai'BH-ATELY AND AOOIIESSIVELY. fliirral l-li nMIri op On. . f Ih. UollMt llalllra .f lira Hr In III I hl1l- ltiM !,"! rort.of J ooo Atn.rle.Mjnr.cKl Manila, June IB -The lighting at La 1'lna luriulay ha proren to be one of the mott tubbornl contetlel battle of the war In the I'lilllpplne. The lowi to the Amrrlcan force I placed at lxty, while the Inaurgent Iom although heavy will probably nevir lie known On till occasion the Atne rlcan field gun were engaged In thetlratartlllery duel g(ilnt a rltlplno battery con realed In the jungle Lompnnle I an I I of the Twenty Hrt Infantry were nearly turrounded by a large body of Inturgrnt but the "imcrlran eut their way out with hiavy lo.e The I'nlted Itatc turret tlilp Mon nduoik and thegunlioat Helena and atlro tralnnl their batterle on lla coor, and the relml trcniheh nrar I I'lnat nil morning Humor wa onre on lire but the netlie toppet the aprend of the lUme During the prettnu nlgi t n luur gent eannon wa llred three time at the American on the outuklrt of I at I'lnn Orneral I aiton the following morning took a battnllon of the I-our teeuth regiment and two rompanlr of the rweut) llritl regiment lo locale the rebel battery, an I thin two gun, of the Hlxtti nrllllrrj anil four iiiouutnln gun were planted agnlnnt It at ivm yanla dlttani e 1 he rebel, had a large gun from whkh they were llrlng home timdr, milliter and txilntii loaded with nail, and twomnnllrr gun llielr fchiKitliig wa mmt acturate The lint lot of rannUtrr bnratdlrectl) In front of Hoott gun an I another ahattrred the leg of a prlrate In the fourteenth Infantry crrrnl hut trill k the edge of the town Ihe rlllplno one engaged appear to hire been the largit and lt orgunUrd lxlyo( men which have met our troop. Tlie Ainrrltan Mildler fought at great odd nil day the Inturgrnt hav Ing the advantage of onltlon, and the day Ih Ing Inlcntily hot. Many of the boya In blue were pltkid olf bv lurp-tliooti lurp-tliooti ra, and a iiunibrr of them uctumbril lo the heat The hour gent wi re drlviii back oulv VMI jiird. luring tin. da) a lighting but when night tame tiny niruileinorallre I mid It 1 not thought tiny will make further .land nt once |