Tue following details of the recent Gros and fighting at Manila, are taken from the special correspondence of the China Mail 23rd February, 3.32 p.m.
Last night," Filipino sympathisers. with the rebels set fire to numerous houses in the districts of Santa Cruz, Tondo, Binondo, and a huge conflagration resalted. with the American soldiery. turned thei The English Fire Brigade, ce-operating
attention to checking the spread of the conflagration, and they did splendid work in preventing the spread of the flames to the Escolta, which is the principal business quarter of the city.
Upwards of fifteen hundred houses were destroyed.
Tu the excitement which prevailed large numbers of rebels were successful in evad-
Filipinos were killed, and numerous arrests the lines and entering the city. Many were made, Today, the fires wore renewed in other districts of the city, bat thanks to the lance of the Americar authorities the native rising proved abortive.
6.41 p.m.
In. the neighbourhood of the Manila Prading Co.'s Cotton Milte at Tutuban, in the Tondo district, a sharp engagement has taken place between the insurgents and the Americans.
In the course of the fusillade the mille were in the creas fire of the combatants, and several employes of the mills were injured.
henry Curtis, the engineer, was killed, F, Simpuon, foreman weaver, was slot in the stomach, and J; Ellis, foreman curder, received a bullet in the arm.
General Otis has issued " notification to the inhabitants of the suburbs to romain in their houses after 7 p.m.
24th February, 11.40.a.m, A quiet night has boon experienced in the city. Two small free occurred, but the precautions taken by the authorities to prevent incendiarism by Filipinos proved effective.
Mr. C.F, Simpson, foreman weaver, in the Manila. Trading Co.'s Cotton Mills ut Putuban, who was shot la the stomach in the fighting which took place in the naighbourhood of the mills, -has died from the effect of his injuries.
Tt was John Haslam, not J. Ellis, who was the other man wounded. He is not werivusly injured.
In the skirmishing outside the city on the previous night the rebela lost heavily in the district between Coloocan and Tondo.
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