PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT. AN INVISIBLE ENEMY.

Manawatu Herald, 15 August 1899, Page 2

PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT. AN INVISIBLE ENEMY.

During the night the insurgent oanmn had fired three tim^3 at the Americans from the outskirts of Las Pinos, and as soon as morning broke General Lawton took a battalion of the 14th Infantry and two companies of the 21st to locate the enemy's battery. As soon as the Americans opened fire they were attacked simultaneously by hidden riflemen on all efdts, even the Amigos shooting into their rear from houses in the town.

The iwo companies of thn 21i?t f while skirmishing along \hi beaob with Amigo guides, found what appeared to bo a mere handful of the insurgents. The latfer retreated, md the American Fkitmisburß were following them up, when uadd. my a terrific fire was opened by invHlile Oodies of insurgents on their front aid**, and r^ir. COMPELLED TO RETREAT. The flkirrai*bing party withdrew ') the water'd edge, finding such shelter as they could, but m they were being- picked off rapidly and their ammqntyion waf $earlj ej> ' nauated, they retreated, v At this point Ganeral Lawton dashed down and rallied the man, and the group then made a desperate stand. General law ton, Major Starr and ... Lieutenants Donovan and Connelly j took ajjM^e rifles of wounded men, and the general himself brought down a sharp-shooter from a tree. Finally, when all their cartridges were gone, the force broke through the enemy'a rank, and* carrying fcheif wound^-wi^fiKli!, aieieedefl* in rejoining the maijjj body of the American trobpc Lieutenant Donoran, with a broken leg, floundered for a mile through the bog, leading his men in the face of a greatly superior force. General Lawfcon ordered the men to ceas=» firing until reinforcements could be brought up. The batallion of the 14tb Infantry and one of the 19 h were harried to the front, and in the afternoon the battle was resumed. The Monadnoek then anchored close inshore, and .with heavy gnns continuously pounded the enemy'a positions while the smaller ship steamed along the shore playing upon them with their rapid guns. The Filipino force appears to be the largest and best organise^ that has yet met the American troops. Bauter Special.