Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-18
DEWEY REPORTS.
official Word Received Of
the Fall Of Manila.
FEW AMERICANS HURT.
One Account Says Only Five
Slain, Another Eight.

Aguinaldo Reported to Have Turned
Against tho American Iroops - Inc
Filipinos Glad That the City Has Sur
rsndered-Blockads Raked and shops
Omen Once More Pail Mail Gazette
Condemns German Interference In Au-
rustln's Fiight-Berlin Paper Tries to
Explain Things, Asserting That Amer
,.a, Commander In Chief Countenanced
the Act.
WASHINGTON. Aug. IS. The govern
rnsnt has received the first direct offi-
cial Information OF the SURRENDER u
Manila after a combined land ana sea
Commandment last Saturday. came
in a dispatch from Admiral Dewey
brought from Manila to HonsKons On
the dispatch boat Zaphiro. The adHllts'
sent two dispatches, the first one prleH!
reciting the essential facts as tolio"s'
Manila. Aug. Is.
Secretary Of the Navy. Washington:
Manila surrendered today to the
American land and naval forces alter
combined attack. A division OF 'ne
squadron shelled the forts and intrench'
ments at Malate, on the south s!oe OF
the city, driving back the enemy our
army advancing from that side at the
same time. The city surrendered about
5 o'clock the American flag being hoist
ed by Lieutenant Brumby. About i,00a
prisoners were taken. The squadron
had no casualties and none OF the yes.
sells we're injured. On Aug. General
111, NHai tina
surrender Of the city, which the Spanish
governor general refused.
DEWEY"
The second dispatch had not been
made public at the time Of sending this
dispatch.
After the first one had been translated
Acting Secretary Allen carried it over
to the White House and laid it before
the president. While it bore out the
news already brought by press DIS
patches yet it established the additional
point that some 1000 prisoners Of var
were now held by the American COM
manders and that no casualties in thu
navy or damage to ships had occurred.
Not Held Because Of Protocol.
Now that the surrender is officially
reported, 1t can be stated that Mani a
is being held by virtue Of the military
occupation and surrender and not by
virtue Of the protocol The difference
Is said to amount to little in practical
results, yet, such as 1t is all officials
agree that the occupation Is the resut
of the combined military and naval
operations.
According to Admiral Dewey's dis
patch, the surrender occurred about
.. m. last Saturday. The peace protocol
gas signed at 4:23 p. m. on Friday. 1t 10
Said that the difference in time between
Manila and Washington Is such that
the surrender. reckoned on Washington
time, would be about II hours ahead OF
the time at Manila, or about a. m
Saturday morning.
In point OF actual time, therefore. the
signing OF the peace protocol preceded
the actual surrender of Manila by few
hours. But 1t is we'll established rule
Of military law. accepted the world over
that a pe0ce armistice or cessation OF
hostilities does not become binding up.
on commanding officers until they re-
ceive actual notice of it. This rule il
expressed in the United States regula.
tlOnS covering armies III the lIeiu DE-
follows:
Article 139.-An armistice Is binding
upon the belligerent from the day Of
the agreed commencement, but the off.
GERS Of the army are responsible from
the day only when they receive Official
notice Of it's existence"
Foroible Seizure Allowable.
Under this rule Admiral Dewey ano
General Merritt would be bound by the
armistice only from the time the no.
tice OF 1t reached them at Manila. This
could not have occurred on Saturday
prior to the bombardment. as the cable
was not working, and no dispatch boat
could have got through with the notice
before Monday or Tuesday. In short
1t is agreed in all official quarters that
the forcible taking Of Manila was en-.
tirely regular and that the city and bay
is now held on the basis Of this military
and enforced taking rather than on
the basis Of mutual arrangement be.
tween the two countries.
This may become material when the
question rises as to the future OF the
Philippines, for 1t is likely to proceed
from the American standpoint that Ma.
nila was taken by foyce OF arms and is
so occupied. There has been no time
to consider what will be done with the
1000 Spanish prisoners taken, but the
fact that an amicable understandings
has been reached with Spain as to the