The record-union., 1898-06-18
Two Suburbs Captured and the City
Of Manila Surrounded. ;.
Captaln-6eneral Augusti Resigns Command
Of the Army Because the Council Of
War Declined to Heed His
Proposition to Surrender.

June 17.)-(Copyright, 1893, by the AS
sociated Press)-Spanish power is
crumbling in the Philippine Islands.
General Pena and a thousand Spanish
soldiers have surrendered at Santa
Cruz. Similar surrenders have taken
and in each case hardly anybody was
killed. 1t was reported that Rear Ad
miral Dewey is unable to restrain the
insurgents, but their conduct is salts
factory. There is no necessity for in
reference as no excesses whatever
have been committed. This is partly
due to the merely nominal assistance
furnished the insurgents.
The latter propose to form republic
under Anglo-American tutelage, and
threaten to visit with severe penalties
the insurgents who have become turn
coats. especially in the case of Pater-
no, prominent native protege of the
Spaniards
There was desultory firing to-day in
every quarter in the outskirts of the
town, with no material result although
there were several artillery accidents
and one explosion which killed six
Spaniards and wounded many others.
The ammunition Of the Spaniards is
utterly untrustworthy, because it is
cid, rotten and has never been tested.
The Spaniards are impotent with rage,
bewildered and in despair. The cafes
tonight are crowded with officers with
their hands in their pockets, gaping
vacantly while an intermittent fusillade
is audible in all directions. Carloads
OF food have been stored inside the
standing a siege and defying the Amer
lean warships. But the idea is rid
lculously prepOsterous, for the citadel
so called is totally untenable against
the fire of a modern fleet Of warships.
There was a concerted attack last
evening in every direction. The Span
iards We're informed of the insurgents
intention to capture two magazines
Santa Mesa, southwark and westward
of the city. Therefore they concen-
trated their forces for a supreme effort
in their defense, and bombarded the
jungle all night long. In the meantime
the insurgents captured Malabon and
Caloocan, in the northern suburbs. The
Spaniards were thus outwitted, out
generated and harassed to death.
During the previous night, owing to
a misunderstanding, a squad of Span
ish artillerymen stampeded from Ma
late into Manila, causing immense con-
sternation, it being believed that the
insurgents were storming the city.
A Spanish officer commanding an
outpost at San Juan left his men in
charge of Sergeant, came to town
and was found helplessly drunk. 1t
is reported that he was sentenced to
death.
A six-inch gun at Malate, while be-
ing fired into the woods over the Span
iards heads, fired a shot which struck
a tree, and killed several Spaniards.
There is a story current here this
evening to the effect that the Captain
and officers of the German warship
Irene went to a picnic on horseback
to the further outpost of San Juan ac-
companied by the highest Spanish staff
officers. They had a champagne lunch
and the Captain Of the Irene is said to
have made a speech, during which he
declared that the Americans will
never annex the Philippine Islands
while William is Emperor
The Germans, 1t is further said, with
their Spanish hosts, might have been
killed by the insurgents, who had the
road to San Juan strongly ambushed,
but 1t is further asserted the insur-
gents had orders to avoid giving q pre-
text for German Intervention.
Finally, it is said. the Germans pro-
posed to remove the wounded Spanish
soldiers to a hospital ship under the
German flag, and Admiral Dewey is re-
ported TO have replied that hitherto
mediation had always been British, and
1t must remain so.
SPANISH IN BAD PLIGHT.