The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-28

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volunteer soldiers.
July 2I-The Colorado boys have thought IN
a STORY to account for their performance OF the
other evening. IL was drill. that was all.
Everybody in the regiment knew what was
coming. Col. Hale had prepared the plan very
carefully. The trouble was that the courier
from the front made a mistake. II was the
plan that he should bring the false alarm into
his own camp. There everybody was waiting
for IL and nothing but good drill would result.
But unfortunately the courier stumbled
through the bamboos and across the
fields into the camp OF the First CALI
fornia and the whole trouble resulted.
That Ia a fIrst-class after explanation but
for two things. There IL an article Of war
which makes the bringing Of n false alarm into
a camp at night in the face of the enemy a
mighty serious business. BY making that ex-
PLANTATION of his action Col. Hale hops into tho
flre for sure. But even that explanation fnils
in face Of the signal to the Boston and TO the
Olympia. That broke ont the Admiral at half
past 9. and again after midnight when Gen.
Greene returned to his shin. and that's carry
ing a Joke n long way.
The Tenth Pennsylvania. the battalion of the
Eighteenth Regulars. and one battery Of Utah
Light Artillery got away from their transports
to-day aud Joined the camp. Work was going
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ships OF the Second Brigade. They are coming
ashore in a fashion that makes the store
keepers hurry up to get one load stored away
before the next arrives. The Inst of the troops
will be out of them tomorrow. except the
guards over regimental property. and the
stores will all be unloaded in a few days.
There will have to be lively work to get
Il all done before Gen. Merritt arrives
with the third expedition. The figuring
is that he is only eight days at most behind
Gen. Greene. and that ought to bring him here
on Monday. the 25th. He will save at least
four days by not going to Guam. Two of the
transports of the First Brigade. the Sydney
and the Australia. have been released. The
Sydney started for home this morning and
the Australia will follow on Saturday. Both go
to Nagasaki for coal and then straight to San
Francisco. It is reported that the China and
Peking are TO be retained as auxiliary cruisers.
That would be a good thing for the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company and for nobody else.
When Manila comes down in a few days there
will be about as much use for auxiliary cruisers
as for strategy boards or war balloons.
CURIOUS BUSINESS IN WAR TINE.
Tive Swiss gentlemen. Alfred Noll and Enrique
Schaub. wandered into Camp Tambo this after
noon with passes from the Captain General in
Manila in and ont of the lines. They were rep
resentatives. they said. of one of the largest
trading houses in Manila. Theyw were buying
notes of the Philippine Bank IN Manila. The
natives sell a 50 note for 81 In silver. but the
bank Hs still paying and there is great profit.
Gen. Greene concluded that it would be a fair
thing 20 have Gen. Anderson see the two trad
ers. He suggested 1t to Gen. Anderson's aide.
Lieut.. Clark. who agreed with him. Clark in
vited the two gentlemen TO go TO Cavite in his
launch and they accepted. Tonight they are
in Jail. and there they are likely to stay for
some time. Buying bank notes between the
lines. with passes from the besieged. Is
curious business in war time. Soll and
Schaub confirmed m1ny of the stories al
ready told about the situation in Manila.
They said the food supply was almost
gone. that only horse meat was obtainable
now. and that the army officials had seized
most of the horses. Fruit cannot be had for
any price. and a 35-cent chicken costs So or
more. There is dissensiou in the army on the
OF surrendering. The Captain Gen
eral. who. it seems. is again in the ascendant
after his Temporary submission to Jaudenes.
The SegundO Cdbo. is determined To surrender |
as soon as tho Americans advance. Some OF
he subordinate officers who want to fight TO
he last are reported TO have drawn lots to see
which shall kill Augustin If he ~surrenders.
and the plan for his assassination is completed.
The Captain OF the CaIlao. the little gunboat
which surrendered soon after the fight. was
shot the other day. according TO Noll and
Schaub. The volunteers have refused to leave
he walls Of the city. and so nearly all of the
have been sent into the trenches and
KILLED BY A SHE'LL.
Yesterday afternoon there was an accident
IN the collier Cyrus which cost n life. and when
he Spanish hear Of it undoubtedly they will
'ay that another Of the wounded in their great
Jattle has died. He was steward OF the engi-
leers' mess. The Cyrus was lying alongside the
which was taking coal. The steward
picked up a B-pounder shell from a box lying
reside one Of the fiaGship's guns and began
'icking at the percussion cap In the end. by
which the shell is exploded. 1t went OF. and
,lew half the mans face away and his left hand
II. He diet within an hour. and was buried
o-day from the Cyrus.
This morning Pedro Lapana. a Filipino.
anne to Gen. Anderson and reported that he
lad discovered a plot on the part of the Spanish
who surrendered in the gunboaS
-eyte to escape. These prisoners we're turned
yer to the insurgents to be guarded. and it APP
ears that they were being nearly starved TO
cath. They had smugRled some letters
through to Manila. and were prepared TO break
ut of their ~prison-which would be very easy
teal a native boat. and try to get into Manila.
he only possibility Of success lay in the care
sssness of their Filipino guards. Spanish
wander all about Cavite and beg from
Americans for money TO buy food. Nobody
avs any attention to them. apparently. They
re dressed and look like some of the insur-
and it would be no trick for a bold man
} get away. Nine did the other day, and got
lto Manila. These fellows to-day were turned
YER 10 Can't. Gaary OF the California HeByy
rtiIlery. who has charge Of the prisoners from
Now they will not want for food or ex-
rcise or proper guard.
The clipper ship Fort Stuart got in to-day
'om Newcastle with coal for the feet.
This was the birthday Of her Majesty the
ueen Regent of Spain. The ships OF the for
Igners anchored OF Manila put on their best
ress of bunting. and at noon fired the national
ilute. From far over the bay came the mufied
,hoes of the answering guns Of Manila doing
onor to the harassed first lady OF Spain for the