Evening star., 1898-08-10
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Quickly Mdeated.
AeUINALDo's WARY MOVE

Malate trencheS, between Cayite and Ma.
Mia.
No, attack has yet been made on the
Spanish lines, but the Americans now oe-
cupy the trenches formerly held by the
insurgents.
In Sunday nights skirmish the following
were killed:
Corporal W. E.. Brown of the 10th Penn
sylvania.
Private Brady of the 10th Pennsylvania.
Private Bowker of the 1st Wyoming.
Privates S. Hull, Bunton Brinton? p, Moss
and Stillwagen (all understood to he of
the 10th Pennsylvania.
First Sergeant Maurice Just of the 1st
California.
Private Dawson, Battery X. Sd Artillery.
Private McKelrath (McIlroth?), Battery
a, Sd Artillery.
Private Winfield, Battery H, Sd Artillery.
On Monday night Private Springstead of
the 1st Colorado was killed.
Last night cTuesdsy) the following were
killed:
Private William Lewis Roddy of the 23d
Infantry.
Private R. Bowers of the Signal Corps:
Private Fred Buckland of the 18th Min
nesota.
Some of the wounded in Sunday nights
skirmish were struck by shrapnel.
Americans Fired First.
at Cavite, under date of August 1, tele-
graphs as follows:
Yesterday 1 visited Camp Dewey and
the American intrenchments before Malate.
Captain Grant and Captain Young of the
Utah artillery We're busily throwing up ad-
Vanced earthworks for guns, under protec-
tion of the Nebraska volunteers. From
the upper floor of a European house form
ing an alignment with the earthworks
y in fhh 1rriS |,
Nebraska sharpshooter beside me fired
the first shot discharged by the Americans
upon the Spaniards who were crouchng in
the forward trench.
This contrary to General Merritt 5
orders. He had forbidden an aggressive
attitude unless the Spaniards advanced.
The insurgents now in fierce inland on the
right of the American lines also opened
fire, the SpaniardS replying briskly wit h
quick-tiring guns and Eifles, but their shoot
ing was high and their shots fell half a
mile beyond the intCenelnents, where a
Colorado volunteer Picket was hit by a
MauSer bullet 'AR.
The Excitiiig9 fReturn.
Personally 1 was Impressed by the nom
chalant demeanor of the americans In the
fighting line They We're like high-sprited
youths on a picnic. s Whole groups lying
in the second line were playing cards Had
the Spaniards. who were unaccountably
non-aggressive during2the American land
ing and advance, dropped shrapnel from
Malate fort, they would have wrought ter
rible havoc, one house, forming a conspcu-
Gus mark, being within easy gun range. =
The return to camp was exciting, but
effected without mishap. The natives fol-
low the American advance, occupying the
houses within the fighting line.
General Aguinaldo's guerrifias caused
the Americans considerab BILE trouble. While
l was in camp information was received
tut
gagged in Telling timber, had been arrested
by the insurgents. Colonel Smith, under
General Greene's Instructions, ordered out
an armed detachment, which released the
prisoners and brought the insurgents into
Camp Dewey. General Greene sent mes
sage to General Aguinaldo, saying that II
the Americans were further molested he
would disarm the whole Filipinos.
There are many new cases of typhoid
fever and measles. During a sudden storm
over night the City of Para drifted under
the guns of Manila. The Charleston res
cued her and towed her to a safe anchor
age
Dispatches from Cavite to Hong Kong
urder date of August s. report that Ma
Mia was then still Spanish" These dis
patches say of the fight:
THE insurgents rendered no assistance,
but retreated the first shot. 1t is be-
lieved that General Asuinaldo, aware of the
Spanish intentions, moved his men away.
On August l the Spaniards made two weak
attacks, but were easily repulsed. On Au-
gust = they made another attack, when
one was killed and eleven wounded On
the Sd there was a cannonade all day.
Tho electric lights were extinguished in
Manila at night The Americans, though
under arms, did not attack the city"
A copyrighted Associated Press dispatch
from Manila, dated August 3, via Hong
Kong, August 8, says:
Inc rumor is current here that the in
surgents, fearful that peace will be con-
cluded between Washington and Madrid
and that the Americans will withdraw from
the Philippines, are consequently the more
strenuous in their desires and efforts to
capture Manila. Sunday night there was a
heavy bombardment. with heavy modern
shells. 1t is generally believed in the city
that the Americans assisted, and the pa
pers published lists of Americans alleged
to have been killed, including some names
of rank.
There Is also report that half the Amer
leans have succumbed to fever. and this
misstatement, with others like it, encour-
ages the Spaniards to maintain their sui
cidal resistance.
On Sunday many shots entered the town.
Several reached the citadel itself, and it is
reported that some ladies were killed
There was frightful panic inside the
walls, women and children shrieking and
praying in their terror the whole night
through. one shot caused twenty casualties
at the Luneta battery: another exploded
at the Malate barracks, killing five.
Saved the Magazine.
The troops turned out just in time to save
Malate fort and thefrnagazine. The in
surgents showered lasgeA and small shots
with such precision thatothe garrison be-
ieved the whole American army and feet
We're concentrating their. fire.
Many Spaniards had previously resolved
to cease fighting the moment the Ameri-
cans began, but the; Insurgents have sub
sided, and the fort ,'has1 been reinforced
from the barracks. TheEe has been little
hghting in other dEectyons The total
Spanish losses are prbhab{y hundred. but
many houses have BEEN SERIOUSLY damaged.
On Monday evening there was a furious
fusillade in every directfdh. Telephone in
quiries were sent oft from headquarters
to various outposts. No answer was re-
ceived from Ell Pasoss and. accordingly, a
squad of horsemen hastened thither. In
the darkness and st6fma the sentries fired
and wounded two. Probably in the panic
they imagined thato the1 horsemen were
Americans. syT.
A few such nights would drive the Span
iards inside the citadel, and then there
would be the chastity prospect of prolonged
devastation and slaughter. with the in
,evitaple destruction Of the town and its in
habitants unless the .Americans hastened
to close in.
On Sunday 1900 houses at Tondo were
burned and the flames, driven by strong
gale, threatened the whole of Manila but
they Were finally extinguished, mainly
through the efforts of the fire brigade or