The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-17
COMMANDMENT OF MANILA
COMMENCED AT 9:3O i. M. AND CON-
 IINUED TWO HOURS.

Sweeping All Before Thom-Foreign
 Fleets Watched the BonibardmeMt
 With Acute Interest-Only the Armed
 Defenccs of the City Attaclxed-The
 Humanity of the American Attack.
 Hong Kong, Aug. 16.-Admiral Dewey gave General Augustin an hour in which to surrender, at the time of the last demand, made on Saturday. Gener- al Augustin refused to comply. The bombardment, which began at 9:SO a. m., was continued for two hours, and then the Americans stormed the intramuros (those within the walls) att tempted no resistance. The First Col orado Volunteers stormed the outer trenches and drove the Spaniards into the second line of defenses. Then the American troops swept on, driving all the Spaniards into the inner fortifica- tions, where the Spanish commander, seeing that further resistance was use- less, hoisted the white flag and sur rendered
 The losses American or Spanish. are trenches probably numbered 5000 men, The American attacking force number ed 10000, and the Americans were bet ter armed, better trained and in better condition. The. foreign fleets watched the bombardn1ent with acute interest. The American warships engaged were the Olmpia, Petrel, Raleigh, McCul- loch, Boston, Monterey. Charleston and Baltimore.
 The Spaniards assert that the fire of the Americans for the most part fell short, the only effective fire being from a small gunboat armed with quick-f1r- ing guns that was close inshore. It is also asserted by the Spaniards that the Americans lost heavily in the storming, owing to the faulty construc- tion of their entrenchments, which the Spaniards could command from the heights and upon which they poured a galling fire" The Spanish trench ex- tended around Manila at a distance of from two to four miles from the walled city, forming a circle ten miles in cir conference, and 1t was impossible, the spaniards say. to hold so long line against the American attack
 Admiral Dewey and General Merritt. it is reported, had issued orders to spare al! except armed defences of the city, and consequently the town is lin- derstood to have been but little dam- aged Some street fighting between the Spaniards and the insurgents occurred on the outskirts, but order prevailed in the intramuros section. The American version of the battle is not yet obtain- able Consul General Wildnan to-day received a report from Admiral Dewey saying that it was intended after the capture of Manila to dispatch cruisers on August 14 to Iloilo and Cebu, to ac- 5cept the surrender of these ports and also to send cruisers to Port Royalist in Talawan to capture the Spanish gunboats hiding there. Another ship was detailed to capture the Spanish steamers plying between Labuan and Iloilo Four Spanish gunboats at Ba taan, in Panay, were also to be cap tured
 Consul Wildnlan credits the report and says that should the vessels have left before the arrival at Manila of the British steamer Australia, which was chartered to carry the news of the signing of the protocol and the cessa- ton of hostilities to that place, it will l>o f0 a sels in three weeks. General Augustin to-day said he did not know that the Kaiserin Augusta was to sail for Hong Kong He was informed that launch was awaiting him, which he boarded, and was taken to the Kaiserin Augusta which immediately started for this place. This statement is considered an equivocation, as General Augustin evil dently knew his destination and his es- cape was pre-arranged.
 Yesterday deputation of Hong Kong Filipinos, headed by Agoncildo, high commissioner and ambassador of the Philippine provisional government, waited upon General Wildman and con- graduated him on behalf of Aguinaldo upon the splendid success of the Amer ican arms in the Philippines and the happy termination of the war in favor of America, and requested MT. Wild man to wire President Mckinley their congratulations and assurances of their allegiance and an expression of their hope that the F'ilipinos will be repre- scented on the Philippine commission Agoncildo, on behalf of the Filipinos, expressed the desire that Consul Gen eral Wildman shall be appointed on the commission.
 NOTHING COULD BE MORE HUM4 4NE Conduct of the Americans in the Capture
 of Manila.