The San Francisco call., 1898-11-28

use raising an alarm. I do not believe they want trouble. In fact, l do not
 think they know themselves what they
 want. They have moved troops up close to the city. Tomorrow or the next day they may all be gone agaIn-
 In this, at least General Otis IS COT
 rect. I have reason to know that l!fe Filipino troops now gathered aDout lhS city are being neither fed nor pa1d, anu
 that these men who have come from a long distance have left at home 1anlll- ies without provision for the future IL being easy for these men to desert ana
 go home again, and the Malolos GoV-
 ernment being hardly in position 10 infiict the penalty for desertlon, IL loI- lows that one reverse, or the lapse of little time will see the present force
 melt like a masmauc mist from the Pasig before a tropic sum- General GUS, , I know, counts upon the lapse Of tune to help the Americans. If the FllplnoS
 do not attack within the next ten uayS
 General Otis will probably win on his
 calculations.
 The fact of the concentration or
 troops came to the knowledge of Gen
 eral Otis through trip LOOK to Ihe
 end of the Manila Railway, at DaSu
 pan, on Wednesday,. On the roau l hlet 400 rebel troops on a train bound rom San Fernando toward Manila, and l met also a certain Senor Castilla, na- tive of the province of PampangaS, ana the head of the railroad secret service. It is to the interest of the management of this property, an Enghsh concern, to keep informed accurately concerning conditions in the provinces. Senor Cas- tilla told me these men had been sent by General MakabUluS, Gobernor Mill tario of Pampangas at Aguhaluo order to threaten the Americans. Sehoi
 Castilla also informed me, and was was correctly informed, that there were 3oOo men at Caloocan, the first station north of Manila. and that natives from all the northern provinces were coming doWh on Aguinaldos order to attack the Americans Makabulus, who does not like Aguinaldo, and scarcely ackno"i
 edges his authority, sent his quota ol troops under protest, and told the men they would be kept only for four uays'
 Ii follows, if the Americans are to De
 attacked. the attack must be qenVereu forthwith The troops sent doWh py
 Makabulus reached Ca!oocaHi irht ol ia'' Wednesday. This is Friday night.
 General Otis waited for an ofhclal confirmation of my information oe1ore he declined to permit me 10 caoie llie story at all He did not wait TOT dll official confirmation before sIehs sthei ing the defenses of Manila lIe ti1i I ,t of an attack. if the natives mean to al- lack Is on the northern slde. On rTb,,redav night the Colorado, Nepraska and Pennsylvania regiments ana eLe
 rrhird regular artillery were conceh- trated along the northern front or the
 city, and to-day Gatl1ng gun "aS aT7ta to tbe Colorado outpost near Sdlte.
 Waea If the attack comes, it will not
 be beSa' surprise. ui iris I do not believe the the, ! insurrectionists will stand nre' III any event. The men from Pampangas nave
 never seen the Americans and nave no l idea of the killing force or 0pa,a5i ri l enId buI1et. When they see the AmeTl-
 cans and when they feel the bullets the
 stomach for fighting, not strong 1n any
 oI,ert will be taken out of them.