THE FILIPINO WAR

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1899, Page 5

THE FILIPINO WAR

A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER

FUKTHER PAHTICULABfi '

4000 NATIVES KILLED

AMERICAS LOSS—4O KILLED AND

ITS WOUNDED

HONGKONG. February 7. Further details of the fighting in Manila show that the battle extended over an area of seventeen miles. The strongest defensive point of the Filipinos was an entrenchment in the vicinity of a church and convent near Pa seo. They fought desperately, and set fire to a number of ambulance waggons. On being- driven out of their entrenchments they retired to the church and convent. The attack of the Americans was so hot that the buildings were fired. The Filipinos were driven out by smoke and flames, and were shot as they emerged. In their endeavour <o seize the waterworks outside Manila, the Americans advanced six miles. 2,500 Filipino women and children sought safety with the approaching American lines and were admitted as refuges. A Keuter despatch says thirteen thousand Americans and twenty thousand Filipinos engaged in battle at Manila. The Filipino losses are estimated at four thousand. The Americans lost forty killed, including three oih'eers, and ITS wounded. Fighting- has not been resumed. M. Phillipe Agoncilio, the Filipino delegate at Washington, has tied to Montreal.