Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-12
Story of DeWey's Marvel
GUS Battle of Manila.
NOT A SHIP OR A SAILOR Lost
Spanish Loss Was 900 Men
and Fourteen Ships.
SIX OF OUR MEN INJURED.
Slightly Wounded by an Explosion
on Their Own Vessel.
DEWEY TO BE REAR ADMIRAL.

Has Already Been Appointed Rear Admiral,
and Congress Will Pass Law to Elevate
the Intrepid Naval Commander In the
Battle the Spanish Gunners Exhibited
Very Poor Workmanship and Were
Quickly Silenced by the Well Directed
Shots of the American Gunners The
Spaniards on the Don Antonio de Ulloa
Made Magnificent Show of Desperate
Bravery Acts of Spanish Treachery
Promptly Punished.
Hong Kong. May 9.-Among 8. naval
men, military men and civilians, Eu-
ropeans and natives here there is only
one subject of discussion, the brilliant,
dashing, annihilating victory of the
American fleet under Commodore
Dewey over the Spanish fleet COM
manded by Admiral Montejo in Ma
Mia bay on May day.
Commodore Dewey's orders were to
capture or destroy the Spanish fleet,
and never were instructions executed
in so complete fashion. At the end of
seven hours there was absolutely
nothing left of the Spanish feet but a
few relics. The American commander
had most skillfully arranged every de-
tail of the action, and even the ap-
parently most insignificant features
we're carried out with perfect punctual
fly and in railroad timetable order
At the end of the action Commo-
dore Dewey anchored his feet in the
bay before Manila, and sent mes
sage to the governor general General
August, announcing the Inauguration
of the blockade, and adding that if a
shot was fired against his ships he
would destroy every battery about Ma
Mia.
The Spaniards' Enormous Advantage.
The position occupied by the Span
iards, the support which their ships
received from the land batteries, and
the big guns they had ashore gave
them an enormous advantage. There
fore, when it is considered that the
Spaniards lost over 600 men in killed
and wounded. that all their ships,
amounting to about Ia, were destroyed,
and that their naval arsenal at Cavite
was also destroyed, with it's defenses,
it will become apparent that the vic
tory of the American commodore is
one of the most complete and wonder
full achievements in the history of
naval warfare.
Not a man on board the American
fleet was killed, not a ship was dam
aged to any extent, and only six men
were injured slightly on board the
Baltimore.
This grand achievement is quite as
much due to the .generalship of Com
modore Dewey as to the fact that the
American gunners, ships and guns are
superior to anything in the same line
af1oat anywhere. Credit must also be
given to the fullest extent to the off,
GERS under Commodore Dewey, for, to
a man, they seconded their gallant
commander in every way possible and
thus helped him earn the laurels winch
are so justly his.
When the squadron left here it
touched first at point in the Philip
pine Islands near Bghnao. as Com1no-
dore Dewey wished the insurgent
agents to dlsembark there, ascertain
the strength and disposition of the
insurgent forces. arrange to prevent
needless bloodshed and inform the in
government of the Philippine Islands,
the commodore strongly objecting to
giving the rebels chance to commit