Hongkong papers received up to the 4th inst, contain details of the serious fighting between the Americans and Fil pinos which broke out dri Saturday 10g, she dub inst, Although. the out: post incident which precipitated matters seems to have been almost dental, the general opinion in Mani that the attack by the natives was promé Between eight and nine o'clock, the firm; commenced, and all through the night the Filipinos held their own, but at daybre: the Americans wushed vigorously forward, thous ported by the fire of the American ips, forced the Filipinos out of their trenches. The Filipinos had taken possession of the works and had started to inery, when an advance Gespoit tue n annearel column of the Americans op, a terrific fire forced the Filipinos to teave the works. The Filipinos carried away portions of the machinery, but engineers state that the damage to the machinery is not serious and will be easily repaired. When the Eemeralda left on Tuesday (the 7th) the suburbs of Manila where the Filipinos had their ambuscades were completely destroyed by the gun-fire of the The Manila Times, of the 6th, gives the following account of the ati On Saturday evening, shortly before eight o'clock, forty or fifty rebel soldiers tried to South De Feta regiment outposts at Santa occupy ion within the lines of the
Mesa, as they have tried on several previous evenings. They -probably believed that, at the worst, their attempt would only Jead to explanations and palaverings, as before, and perhaps they might trespass on the American forbearance so as to gain some advantage in position.
They encountered " corporal and fire privates of the South Dakota's, who ordered them back. Iostead of retiring, the rebels ran forward aa if to cut off the Americans from their camp, and capture them, as occurred in other parts of the line recently. The Nebraska men fired, and immediatel; hundreds of rebels in the vicinity respont
the line as far a8 Balik-Balik in the north-general eoggenent cumed all along east and Pasay in the south-east. Both the American and rebel troops had been expecting " fight, and were tired of waiting, but it seems probable that the rebels had not fixed any particular time to attack, for they did not begin in the Tondo district until after 10 pin, while Malate wan quiet until early morning.
'A general call to arms was sounded about eight o'clock, some regiments getting the word Inter, but by half-past eight all'were out. The intense restraint and anxiety of the past fow weeks made the men all the Keener for the fight. Several officers hurry. ing to the front la carriages, were attacked by Filipinos in the afreet; Col. Colton shot one who tried to cut him with a polo, Col. Frost _had a similar experience, and 'Gen, King was attacked bys man who escaped but as afterwards taken prisoner at Paco. the cruiser Charleston, which bad' been Tondo was attacked 20 vigorously that watching closely and signalling to Admiral Demey, had_to shell the rebel stronghold of Caloocan. This is now almost entirely demolished. The Leyte and Callao also did much damage. Some of the dark bywa of Tondo were full of armed natives allies outalde failed to get in ead so thas rise against the Americans, but their ore daylight, Malate was attacked and the firing was severe until ten o'clock. The rr fired 400 or 500 shells, clearing the whole country, Paco church was held by " number of rebel sharpshooters, who kept their position
burnt, The rebels were driven back with a dimecicane shelled them out, of Paco village was tush, Santa Anna and Pandacan were cap-fared, ano farn'tteds of rebels killed, Many hid in wipe buts. On tne proce being searched, scores of mud-bespattered natives: without uniform, were taken, having plainly been in the trenches and swamps. It is believed that hundreds of rebels tried to escape by swimming the river but were shot or drowned, The captured rebel trenches, all along the Ting, ate filed with dead bodies, ying in heaps huddled io gather, Santa Anna is pyrticalarly a ghastly sight. 7! of The house of utter wreck.
Cor lewara, Stevenson & Ca., is an The rebel losses cannot be lees than five ud. 'The Americans lost. about forty killed and s hundred seriously wounded. trotes, the naked wild hills, with bows and arrows, killed, and three hundred of them ware taken' britoners by Colonel Maduro. Their head-gear, made of roosters' feathers, fine trophies of the fight, Toco; the American troops' occupied Malolos, the xebet expel:
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