are indebted to Senor Navarro, Spanish Consul, for a copy of the following telegram received on the 9th from the Governor-General of the Philippines The rebels of Bataan have been routed. Our troops took an entrenched village and killed 61.
the command of Llanera were also routed After a hard fight the insurgents under at Sibul, Balacan, and the troops took the encampment, arms, and ammunition, and Killed 68 (cornuted) and many others whose number it was impossible to ascertain on account of the thickness of the woods.—
Hongkong Daily Press.
The China Mail has the following from its special correspondent Manila, Saturday, 9th Jan., 7.5 pin.
Since the engagement between the Spanish troops and the rebels at Santa Maria there has been no engagement of a decisive character. Desuliory fighting is conducted around the headwaters of the River Pasig,
The Spanish forces invariably prove vicbetmeon Ta Laguna and the Bay of Manila torious in these encounters, but. one small force was isolated near the Pasig and suffered severely until reinforcements came up and drove off the rebels, Aguinaldo, commanding some six thousand rebels from Cavite, is lying in this ion, endeavouring to enlist. recruits and vainly attempting to form a junction with the rebel forces in Bulacan.
Suspects within the Spanish lines are said to be contemplating reprisals if Roxas is executed, but these threats will not deter General Polavieja from carrying out the law should it be decided to execute his rebel.
The bulk of the Spanish troops are operating.in small mobile columns in Bula can and to the north-east of Manila, A body-of troops was despatched yesterday to ibs, the capital of Zambales, and. Bolinao, to protect the cable.
Bulacan is now reported to be peaceful.
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