The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02
FOE UNWORTHY
OF THEIR NE TAI
Bravery of American
Troops at Manila.
TOLD BY TWO GENERALS
ANDERSON AND MACARTHUR
MAKE REPORTS.
During the Fighting Before the Phil
ippine Capital There Were
Many Acts of Individual
Heroism.
TOLD BY TWO GENERALS
ANDERSON AND MACARTHUR
MAKE REPORTS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

|. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The reports
! Of General Thomas NJ. Anderson, COM
| manding the Second Division of the
Eighth Army Corps, and General Mac
Arthur, commanding the First Brigade
| of that division, as to operations about
Manila were made public at the War
Department to-day. General Anderson
! had command of the first expedition.
The following extracts are taken from
| his report: s...
On the first day of July l had an in
| naldo, and learned from him that the
| Spanish forces had withdrawn, driven
back by his army, as he claimed, TO the
| line of defense Immediately around the
I. city and its suburbs He estimated the
Spanish forces at about 1900 men, anu
his own at about the SANG number. he
did not seemed pleased at the incoming or
our land troops, hoping, as / believe, that
he could take the city with his own army,
/ with the cooperation of the American
| Believing that, however successful. the
insurgents may have been in guerra Il
not carry their lines by assault or reduce
the city by siege, and expecting, further,
that q hearty and effective cooperation
/ could not be executed. l at once had
made q number Of Reconnaissance to ex-
actly locate the enemys lines OF defense
and to ascertain its strength.
|. General Anderson thus describes the
attack on. Manila, which was under his
immediate command. subject to orders
from General Merritt, whose headquar-
tiers were on a dispatch boat:
The feet opened fire at $50 a. m. The
firs- shots fell short, but the. range was
soon found. and then the fire became evil
IDENTITY effective. ! at once telegraphed
General Macarthur to open on blockhouse
No. IA, and begin his attack. At the same
nr11 n
Battery opened fire on the enemy'S works
IN front of the Second Brigade and two
guns on thu. right of this brigade opened
Riding down to the beach l saw two
of our lighter draft vessels approach and
open on the Polverin with rapid-fire guns,
and observed, at the same time, some men
of the Second Brigade start up the beach.
ordered the First California, which was
the leading regiment of the service, to go
forward and report to General Greene.
Going to the reserve telegraph l received
a message from Macarthur that his fire
on the blockhouse was effective, but that
he was enf1laded from the right. l knew
from this that he wished to push the in
surgents aside and put In the Astor Bat
terry. / then authorized him to attack,
which he did, and soon after the Twenty
third Infantry and the Thirteenth Mime
sofa carried the advance line of the enc
my in most gallant manner. one
effective assistance.
In the meantime the Colorado regiment
had charged and carried the right of the
enemys line, and the Eighteenth Infan-
try and the Third Heavy (reguIar5 Ar
tillery, acting as infantry, had advanced
and passed over the enemy's works in
serve was ordered forward to follow the
Second Brigade, and a battery of Hotch-
kiss guns was directed to follow the
Eighteenth Infantry. Going to the tele-
graph station on the left of our line on
the beach, l found the operator starting
forward in the rear of the First Calf
x,<1
strument was established in the first
house in Malate. The first ticking of
the sounder informed us that General
Macarthur was heavily engaged at a Sec
ond line of defense near SingalOng
1t was evident that the best way to as
sist him was to press our success on the
to connect, II possible, with General Mac
Arthur by sending a regiment to the
right But the army seemed determined
Tor time to give US street fight, and
the Colorado and California regiments
were the only ones available. At this
luncture the Eighteenth Infantry and the
Hotchliss battery appeared to be stopped
by broken pier of. a bridge, but the
engineer company brought forward a
portable bridge. and in a few minutes
these organizations pressed through for
the Malate Ermta redoubts Soon the
men from Nebraska and Wyoming came
/ on shouting, for the white flag could be
seen on the sea front, yet the firing did
not cease, and the Spanish soldiers at the
front did not seem to be notified of the
surrender. In the meantime the reserve
had been ordered forward except one
regiment, which was ordered to remain
in the Second Brigade trenches. The sew
enth Utah were also ordered to the front
one infantry battalion being directed to
assist the men of the batteries in hauling
the guns by hand.
The field telegraph wires, extending In
a wide circuit to the extreme right, for a
time gave dscouraging reports. The
front was covered and the enemy in
trenched. and the timber heavy on both
sides OF the road. ClnlV two
It is believed. were put on the firing line
The Fourteenth Infantry was brought
forward, but could not fire a shot. Under