The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-02
SCENE OF SURRENDER
How Merritt'S Men Went In
to Manila.
NATIVES QUEER DRESS
Insurgents are Treacherous
and Natives Indecent.

A. L. Philips. son Of John Phillips, at
Nulvane. writes another letter from Ma
Mia. as follows:
Camp Dewey. P. I, Aug. e.
Dear Parents-I suppose you have re-
eeived my letter which I mailed al Hon
c-ulu, giving you an account Of our trip
that far, 50 now 1 Will try and give you
brief account from the time We left
Honolulu on Saturday noon, after a stay
of about thirty-six hours and sailed al
slost directly west. After sailing west
for a few days, the course was changed a
little TO the south IN order 70 pass Wake
Island which IS about SO miles from the
-slarones The sailing was fine. and it
teeme1 as though Providence favored Us
Every chance that was possible. At times
The ocean was "a smooth as a pond. After
Teaching Wake island and taking posses
eiOn OF Il we sailed almost due west, ex-
pecting to strike Guahan island. the
southern island Of the Ladrone group.
This we did on Sa .urday night. two weeks
after We left Honolulu. The China. the
rag ship Of our expedition. steamed ahead
20 reconnoiter, as Spain owns these
Islands and has the principal city well
fortified. We were Expecting to meet the
United States gunb0at Charleston at this
place but As We did not, we were to IN
cerstand il was safe to come on. Not
Injecting this boat. and the rest Of the
feet catching up with the China, we
started on for the Philippines. which was
about another weeks sailing. Our course
was now changed to the northwest in
order to 80 around the northern point Of
Luzon island the main island Of the Phil
ippint group. eW sighted the northern
point Of ibis island Saturday morning
and after sailing on west along the north
ern coast, the course was now changed
20 almost due south in order to reach
Manila Saturday forenoon about Il
O'Clock, when everybody was in good
spirits. some one spied a ship in the dis
lance, and Immediately everybody was on
the watch, as we did not know whether
1t was friend or foe. In about an hour
we came near enough so that by the aid
Of glasses 1t was discovered to be the
Boston. one Of Deweys boats A salute
was fired and everybody was IN the best
Of spirits, as now we felt safe under her
protection. Everything safe was sig
nailed from the Boston, and so the China
went on ahead of the rest OF theexpedi-
ton In order to let Dewey know that we
were all safe. We reached the entrance
10 Manila bay on Sunday morning, July
AS we steamed into Manila bay nh
IT, 1t was a beautiful morning as we
steamed into Manila bay It was but a
ehort time until VIC heard salutes fired,
and now we were within reach and sound
or Dewey's fleet Everybody was on deck
and straining their eyes and ears to see
and hear all that was TO be seenand
heard
In Manila bay there were about TWEEN
ty-five transport ships and several war
vessels belonging to foreign countries. of
which England and Germany are the best
represented, the former having four and
the latter six of her best warships. We
cast anchor near Cavite harbor, a small
town and fort about ten miles from Ma
Mia. This fort was sIeuced by Dewey
in his great battle here on May l, and IS
now occupied 10y a regiment Of our SOL
diers VINO came on the first expedition.
I'VE remained on board the ships until
the following Thursday, when We were
loaded into barges and tOwed to shore,
about three and one-haf miles from Ma
Mia, where we were to pitch camp We
We're provided with small shelter tents,
or what is called pup tents. They are
greatly mistaken when they call them
shelter tents. for they are n very little
protection against the drenching rains
which are now prevalent
we Immediately pitched our tents and
here We remained until the eventfu day
of August 18th. Our time. while in camp,
vas taken up III drilling and doing outpost
duty.
The Spaniards having 10y this time all
Fetreated within the walls of Manila we
Immediately began to throw up an In
trenchment about three-fourth of a mile
from the Spanish wall and about 400 yards
from the Spanish iutrenchments. The
Spaniards used their intrenchment as a
pace for cutposts and to prevent the in
surgents from advancing any nearer the
CITY. This work OF building intrenchments
was done by The different regiments each
taxing their regular turn. The Spaniards
did not trouble Us in this work until on