The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-08

was sighted. Tho cruiser heaved a shot across
the strangers bows and he hove to in a hurry.
The Baltimore stopped right across his course
and sent a boat aboard him. While the boat
wns gone the red and white lights on the Balti-
more's foromast spelled out this message:
Am boarding strange steamer" On the troop
ships we waited in breathless silence for tho
result. Presently the red lights winked again,
this attention signal. And then came this mes
sage: Strange vessel is English" What a
disappointment that wasi Full speed ahead
again and on toward Manila. Four o'clock
brought another steamer and oil the excite
ment over again. But again II was an English
mln.
Then we struck the China Sea. Now. this Is
good advice to fair weather sailors: Let the
Ulina Sea alone. There blow the monsoons.
and where the southwest one finishes the
northeastern takes 1t up. One is Just as bad as
the other. Either will stand you alternately on
your eyebrows and the buck OF your mock. and
don't fool yourself into thinking you can get In
your bunk and sleep. because the gentle mon
Doon will promptly toss you out.
Well. we got through the China Sea and came
into Manila Bay. green and fair. Right at tho
\ entrance. opposite Corregidor Island. in a
little blight. lay three German warships, the
big cruiser Kaiserin Augusta in tho lead. As We
passed in she got up steam and followed. trail
ing along until the Charleston had saluted Ad-
miral Dewey's flag. Then she broke out the
Stars and Stripes at tho fore. saluted. and went
on to join the other Germans. four OF them.
the French and English. anchored in front Of
Manila.
How glad we were to get in and how clad the
fleet was to see usl The insurgents have been
pressing the Spanish hard. They are ham,
mering at the outskirts OF Manila every
day. They have 1000 prisoners. including
the family Of the Governor. which they caught
out driving In the suburbs one day. The sur
| geons Of the fleet go over to insurgent head
quarters near Cavite and look after their
wounded. Aguinaldo's men are we'll armed
with the rifles they took from the Cavite
arsenal when Dewey captured 1t, and they have
plenty OF ammunition AS write this lean hear
the cannonading as they are attacking Manila.
Yesterday they took a small water battery
north OF the city. To-day the Spaniards are
wasting ammunition from their 8-inch Krupp
guns in trying to drive them away.
Admiral Dewey called on Gen. Anderson al
most as soon as the Australia was anchored last
night and acquainted the commander OF the
troops with the situation as he knew it. This
morning they went ashore and selected a camp
ing place for the troops in the navy yard. Now
the men are getting their kits into shape. and
already the lighters are coming alongside to
take them ashore.
The spectacle presented by the bay about
Cavite can hardly find adequate description.
All around lie the wrecks Of the Spanish ships.
Three or four of them would do fairly well in
appearance as wrecks Of the Maine. The naval
men do not attempt to explain how 1t was they
were not hit themselves in the fight. It rained
and hailed shells. The Spanish gunners hit
all around the American ships. but always
missed them.
The talk is now that we shall attack Manila
on Sunday. Perhaps. Anyway. before this
reaches you the cable will have told the story.
They say here that the reason the cable has
not been fixed up is that the company is under
contract to Spain. and will not receive Ameri.
can business at the Hong Kong end. o. KID.